Imagining Outer Space European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century /

Imagining Outer Space European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century /

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 spaceflig...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Geppert, Alexander C.T (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Έκδοση:2nd ed. 2018.
Σειρά:Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Θέματα:
History.
Astronomy.
Europe-History.
Social history.
History, Modern.
History of Science.
Popular Science in Astronomy.
European History.
Social History.
Modern History.
Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Figures
  • Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1. European Astrofuturism, Cosmic Provincialism Historicizing the Space Age; A.C.T.Geppert
  • PART I: NARRATING OUTER SPACE
  • 2. Space, Time and Aliens:The Role of Imagination in Outer Space; S.J.Dick
  • 3. Heaven on Earth: Tunguska, 30 June 1908; C.Schmölders
  • 4. Imagining Inorganic Life: Crystalline Aliens in Science and Fiction; T.Brandstetter
  • PART II: PROJECTING OUTER SPACE
  • 5. Projecting Landscapes of the Human Mind onto Another World: Changing Faces of an Imaginary Mars; R.Eisfeld
  • 6. 'Smash the Myth of the Fascist Rocket Baron': East German Attacks on Wernher von Braun in the 1960s; M.J.Neufeld
  • 7. Transcendence of Gravity: Arthur C. Clarke and the Apocalypse of Weightlessness: T.Bjørnvig
  • PART III: VISUALIZING OUTER SPACE
  • 8. Per Media Ad Astra?: Outer Space in West Germany's Media, 1957-87; B.Mütter
  • 9. Balloons on the Moon: Visions of Space Travel in Francophone Comic Strips; G.de Syon
  • 10. 'A Stumble in the Dark': Contextualizing Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's Space: 1999; H.Keazor
  • PART IV: ENCOUNTERING OUTER SPACE
  • 11. Life as We Don't Yet Know It: An Anthropologist's First Contact with the Science of 'Weird Life'; D.Battaglia
  • 12. A Ghost in the Machine: How Sociology Tried to Explain (Away) American Flying Saucers and European Ghost Rockets, 1946-47; P.Lagrange
  • 13. Seeing the Future of Civilization in the Skies of Quarouble: UFO Encounters and the Problem of Empire in Postwar France; J.Miller
  • PART V: INSCRIBING OUTER SPACE
  • 14. Self-Reproducing Automata and the Impossibility of SETI; G.Munévar
  • 15. Inscribing Scientific Knowledge: Interstellar Communication, NASA's Pioneer Plaque, and Contact with Cultures of the Imagination, 1971-72; W.R.Macauley
  • 16. Alien Spotting: Damien Hirst's Beagle 2 , Mars Lander Calibration Target and the Exploitation of Outer Space; T.Weddigen
  • Epilogue
  • 17. Look Up: Art in the Age of Orbitization; P.Pocock
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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