Description
Space is the Place: Astronomy, Planetarity, Artificiality
Our seminar topics will include (but are not limited to): Los Angeles and California more generally in old and new space programs (JPL, SpaceX, Mojave Space Port, Northrup Skunkworks); closed-loop systems; geographic sensing and imaging; the truly alien and the productive qualities of alienation, corporeal prostheses; the geologic condition of culture; planetary logistics; the cognitive aesthetics of deep time; the Copernican turn; “space dogs” ; astropolitics, astrorobotics and astrobiology; Kim Stanley Robinson on (among other things) terraforming, comparative planetology and why the moon is new mars; Galina Balishova and soviet spaceship interior design; Lisa Messeri on the anthropology of exoplanets; Gökçe Günel on Buckminster Fuller/ Norman Foster in Masdar; Elie During on zero gravity philosophy without ground; Holly Jean Buck on why progressives should reconsider geoengineering; Sun Ra on Afrofuturism and outer spac