| Title: | Astrotopia : the dangerous religion of the corporate space race |
| Authors: | Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Author |
| Material Type: | eBook |
| Publisher: | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2022 |
| ISBN / ISSN / EAN : | 978-0-226-82112-2 |
| Size: | 1 online resource (xii, 225 p.) / ill. |
| Languages: | English |
| Class number: | BL254 |
| Subjects: | Colonies--Religious aspects ; Outer space--Exploration--Moral and ethical aspects ; Religion and astronautics |
| Description: | "We are in the midst of a new space race that pairs billionaire space barons with governments in an effort to exploit the cosmos for human gain. While Elon Musk and SpaceX work to establish a human presence on Mars, Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin work toward mining operations on the moon, missions to asteroids to extract resources, and millions of people living in rotating near-Earth satellite dwellings. Despite the differences in their visions, these two billionaires share a core utopian project: the salvation of humanity though the colonization of space. But we have already seen the destructive effects of this frontier spirit in the centuries-long history of European colonialism. Philosopher of religion and space enthusiast Mary-Jane Rubenstein wants to pull back the curtain on the not-so-new myths these space barons are peddling. In Astrotopia, she explains why these myths are so problematic and offers a vision for how we might approach the exploration of space in ways that don't reproduce the atrocities of humanity's previous colonial endeavors"-- Provided by publisher |
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