At the invitation of the Swiss foundation Dialogik, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak delivered the lecture "Imperative for the Reinvention of the Planet" in 1997. The written version in the original and in German translation was published in 2013 by Passagen Verlag in its second edition. In "Imperative for the Reinvention of the Planet," the first Mary Levin Goldschmidt-Bollag Memorial Lecture on refugee and migration policy by the Dialogik foundation (Zurich), Spivak counters the profit-driven logic of globalization with the urgent imperative to reinvent planetary responsibility. Spivak seeks to overwrite the globe with the planet and compares the coordinate system of electronic capital with the virtual lines of geographic information systems that overlay the Earth. However, this form of globalization is uncontrollable for Spivak. The author presents a pl.