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Space Forces - A Critical History of Life in Outer Space (Hardcover)
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Space Forces - A Critical History of Life in Outer Space (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R489
Discovery Miles 4 890
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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.
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