Mythologies of outer space /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Ellis, Jim, 1964- (επιμελητής), Humble, Noreen, 1962- (επιμελήτρια)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Calgary : University of Calgary Press, c2025.
• Σειρά: Cagliary Institute for the Humanities Series, no. 4
• Θέματα: Διάστημα > Στην τέχνη; Διάστημα > Στη λογοτεχνία

 Every culture and society has read stories in the night sky. From the careful attention of astronomers across all times and all parts of the world to the search for alien life, the stories found in the shapes of constellations to the expansive imaginings of science fiction, there has always been life up there, at the very least, for our imaginations. Mythologies of Outer Space brings together academics and artists to explore diverse imaginings of outer space. It examines questions that, in a world where outer space is increasingly accessible, are no longer only science fiction. Is outer space terra nullius, open for settlement? What if there is life beyond earth? Will we repeat the mistakes of the colonial age on other planets? Should parts of outer space be protected, like nature reserves? What about resource extraction? Do celestial bodies, like the moon, have rights? Astronaut Robert Thirsk, Mi’kmaw astronomer Hilding Neilson, digital humanities scholar Chris Pak, and outer space archaeologist Alice Gorman, among others, are joined by artists including David Hoffos and Dianne Bos, literary scholars, art critics, scientists, and a poet to explore how humanity thinks about outer space in this joyful, curious book. 

  Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- How we let the moon die, & why it isn’t dead -- Imaginary voyages to the moon: lucian & his legacy -- Lucian’s voyage to the moon -- Space is part of the land: reconsidering the relationships between astronomy research, outer space exploration & colonialism -- Fifty years at the rothney -- Life in a parallel universe: the biocene -- “A kind of continuous conceptual drunkenness”? -- Science fiction that might have been, or the outer spaces of the gibson collection of speculative fiction -- Stellar Sequence -- In conversation with naomi potter -- Galaxy Series -- David Hoffos: On outer & inner space -- The book of the damned -- Afterword -- Appendix: UN moon treaty, “agreement governing the activities of states on the moon & other celestial bodies” (december 5, 1979) -- Contributors