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Limiting Outer Space propels the historicization of outer space by
focusing on the Post-Apollo period. After the moon landings,
disillusionment set in. Outer space, no longer considered the
inevitable destination of human expansion, lost much of its popular
appeal, cultural significance and political urgency. With the rapid
waning of the worldwide Apollo frenzy, the optimism of the Space
Age gave way to an era of space fatigue and planetized limits.
Bringing together the history of European astroculture and
American-Soviet spaceflight with scholarship on the 1970s, this
cutting-edge volume examines the reconfiguration of space
imaginaries from a multiplicity of disciplinary perspectives.
Rather than invoking oft-repeated narratives of Cold War rivalry
and an escalating Space Race, Limiting Outer Space breaks new
ground by exploring a hitherto underrated and understudied decade,
the Post-Apollo period.
Imagining Outer Space makes a captivating advance into the cultural
history of outer space and extraterrestrial life in the European
imagination. How was outer space conceived and communicated? What
promises of interplanetary expansion and cosmic colonization
propelled the project of human spaceflight to the forefront of
twentieth-century modernity? In what way has West-European
astroculture been affected by the continuous exploration of outer
space? Tracing the thriving interest in spatiality to early
attempts at exploring imaginary worlds beyond our own, the book
analyzes contact points between science and fiction from a
transdisciplinary perspective and examines sites and situations
where utopian images and futuristic technologies contributed to the
omnipresence of fantasmatic thought. Bringing together
state-of-the-art work in this emerging field of historical
research, the volume breaks new ground in the historicization of
the Space Age.
Limiting Outer Space propels the historicization of outer space by
focusing on the Post-Apollo period. After the moon landings,
disillusionment set in. Outer space, no longer considered the
inevitable destination of human expansion, lost much of its popular
appeal, cultural significance and political urgency. With the rapid
waning of the worldwide Apollo frenzy, the optimism of the Space
Age gave way to an era of space fatigue and planetized limits.
Bringing together the history of European astroculture and
American-Soviet spaceflight with scholarship on the 1970s, this
cutting-edge volume examines the reconfiguration of space
imaginaries from a multiplicity of disciplinary perspectives.
Rather than invoking oft-repeated narratives of Cold War rivalry
and an escalating Space Race, Limiting Outer Space breaks new
ground by exploring a hitherto underrated and understudied decade,
the Post-Apollo period.
Militarizing Outer Space explores the dystopian and destructive
dimensions of the Space Age and challenges conventional narratives
of a bipolar Cold War rivalry. Concentrating on weapons, warfare
and vio lence, this provocative volume examines real and imagined
endeavors of arming the skies and conquering the heavens. The third
and final volume in the groundbreaking European Astroculture
trilogy, Militarizing Outer Space zooms in on the interplay between
security, technopolitics and knowledge from the 1920s through the
1980s. Often hailed as the site of heavenly utopias and
otherworldly salvation, outer space transformed from a promised
sanctuary to a present threat, where the battles of the future were
to be waged. Astroculture proved instrumental in fathoming forms
and functions of warfare's futures past, both on earth and in
space. The allure of dominating outer space, the book shows, was
neither limited to the early twenty-first century nor to current
American space force rhetorics.
In Europe, love has been given a prominent place in European
self-representations from the Enlightenment onwards. The category
of love, stemming from private and personal spheres, was given a
public function and used to distinguish European civilisation from
others. Contributors to this volume trace historical links and
analyse specific connections between the two discourses on love and
Europe over the course of the twentieth century, exploring the
distinctions made between the public and private, the political and
personal. In doing so, this volume develops an innovative
historiography that includes such resources as autobiographies,
love letters, and cinematic representations, and takes issue with
the exclusivity of Eurocentrism. Its contributors put forth
hypotheses about the historical pre-eminence of emotions and
consider this history as a basis for a non-Eurocentric
understanding of new possible European identities.
Militarizing Outer Space explores the dystopian and destructive
dimensions of the Space Age and challenges conventional narratives
of a bipolar Cold War rivalry. Concentrating on weapons, warfare
and vio lence, this provocative volume examines real and imagined
endeavors of arming the skies and conquering the heavens. The third
and final volume in the groundbreaking European Astroculture
trilogy, Militarizing Outer Space zooms in on the interplay between
security, technopolitics and knowledge from the 1920s through the
1980s. Often hailed as the site of heavenly utopias and
otherworldly salvation, outer space transformed from a promised
sanctuary to a present threat, where the battles of the future were
to be waged. Astroculture proved instrumental in fathoming forms
and functions of warfare's futures past, both on earth and in
space. The allure of dominating outer space, the book shows, was
neither limited to the early twenty-first century nor to current
American space force rhetorics.
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