Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space - Couverture rigide

Scharmen, Fred

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1786637359 ISBN 13 : 9781786637352

Editeur : Verso Books, 2021

Synopsis

Many societies have imagined going to live in space. What they want to do once they get up there - whether conquering the unknown, establishing space "colonies," privatising the moon's resources - reveals more than expected. In this fascinating radical history of space exploration, Fred Scharmen shows that often science and fiction have combined in the imagined dreams of life in outer space, but these visions have real implications for life back on earth.

For the Russian Cosmists of the 1890s space was a place to pursue human perfection away from the Earth. For others, such as Wernher Von Braun, it was an engineering task that combined, in the Space Race, the Cold War, and during World War II, with destructive geopolitics. Arthur C Clark in his speculative books offered an alternative vision of wonder that is indifferent to human interaction. Meanwhile NASA planned and managed the space station like an earthbound corporation. Today, the market has arrived into outer space and exploration is the plaything of superrich technology billionaires, who plan to privatise the mineral wealth for themselves. Are other worlds really possible?

Bringing these figures and ideas together reveals a completely different story of our relationship with outer space, as well as the dangers of our current direction of extractive capitalism and colonisation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Fred Scharmen teaches architecture and urban design at Morgan State Universitys School of Architecture and Planning. He is the Co-Founder of the Working Group on Adaptive Systems, an art and design consultancy based in Baltimore, Maryland. His first book, Space Settlements was published in 2019. His writing has been published in The Journal of Architectural Education, Atlantic CityLab, Slate, Log, CLOG, Volume, and Domus. His architectural criticism has appeared in the Architects Newspaper, and in the local alt-weekly Baltimore City Paper.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1786637359
• ISBN 13: 9781786637352
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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