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What happens when contemporary space exploration outgrows Space Age modernity? In this volume, a collective of social scientists and humanities scholars provides an introduction to the emerging field of outer space studies. This is done by means of "otherwhere ethnography," richly detailed accounts of how space research and space enterprises are being rethought in an age where extraterrestrial exploration is no longer the monopoly of a handful of superpowers. While many off-Earth endeavours remain embedded within characteristically modern forms of thought--scientism, productivism, extractivism, (neo-)colonialism--there is also an emerging trend to move away from such ingrained conceptual frameworks. If one looks beyond the much-hyped projects of billionaire space gurus and their coterie of rocket-obsessed followers, one notices that Space Age modernity can also be thought otherwise, and that the very idea of "exploration" has already mutated into something else. Outer space studies can be envisaged as the antenna that seeks to capture this momentous, ongoing mutation.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Perig Pitrou and Istvan Praet: Introduction: Otherwhere Ethnography, a Means to Reimagine Contemporary Space Exploration
Part I Provincializing the Space Age: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on the Exploration of Outer Space
1: Lisa Messeri;Valerie Olson: Spaced Out: Bringing Outer Spaces into Anthropological Conversations
2: Luis A. Campos: Blue Vegetation on the Red Planet: Soviet Astrobotany and Earthly Analogs for Life on Mars
3: Istvan Praet: Styles of Contemporary Space Exploration: Columbian and Vespuccian Modes of Researching Alien Worlds
4: David Valentine: Provincializing Earth: Grounding and Writing Acknowledgments from Otherwheres in the Cosmos
5: Davide Chinigò;Cherryl Walker: Knowledge Frontiers: Shaping African Futures Through the Square Kilometre Array
Part II Otherwhere Ethnographies: Analogs, Instruments, Artifacts, Viruses, and Vegetables
6: Zara Mirmalek: Between a Rock and a Hard Space: On Instrument Time and Communication in BASALT
7: Aaron Parkhurst;David Jeevendrampillai: The Restaurant at the End of the World
8: Valentina Marcheselli: "Welcome to Planet Mars": Analog-Making in Astrobiology and Planetary Sciences
9: Victor Buchli: Artifacts of Attunement
10: Stefan Helmreich: Space Virus 2020
Notes
References
Index
