Astrotopia : : the Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race

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Call Number: 215 Ru
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Introduction : we hold this myth to be potential -- Our infinite future in infinite space -- Creation and conquest -- The American promised land -- The final frontier -- Whose space is it? -- The rights of rocks -- Other spacetimes -- Conclusion : revolt of the pantheists.
"We are in the midst of a new space race that pairs billionaire space barons with governments in an effort to exploit the cosmos for human gain. While Elon Musk and SpaceX work to establish a human presence on Mars, Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin work toward mining operations on the moon, missions to asteroids to extract resources, and millions of people living in rotating near-Earth satellite dwellings. Despite the differences in their visions, these two billionaires share a core utopian project: the salvation of humanity though the colonization of space. But we have already seen the destructive effects of this frontier spirit in the centuries-long history of European colonialism. Philosopher of religion and space enthusiast Mary-Jane Rubenstein wants to pull back the curtain on the not-so-new myths these space barons are peddling. In Astrotopia, she explains why these myths are so problematic and offers a vision for how we might approach the exploration of space in ways that don't reproduce the atrocities of humanity's previous colonial endeavors"-- Provided by publisher.

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