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Limiting Outer Space: Astroculture After Apollo: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology

Editat de Alexander C.T. Geppert
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 mai 2020
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.


      
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781349676606
ISBN-10: 1349676608
Pagini: 367
Ilustrații: XXIV, 367 p.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2018
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction.- 1 Alexander C.T. Geppert; The Post-Apollo Paradox: Envisioning Limits During the Planetized 1970s.- Part I: Navigating the 1970s.- 2           Martin Collins; The 1970s: Spaceflight and Historically Interpreting the In-between Decade.- 3         Roger D. Launius; Responding to Apollo: America’s Divergent Reactions to the Moon Landings.- 4    Doug Millard; A Grounding in Space: Were the 1970s a Period of Transition in Britain’s Exploration of Outer Space?.- Part II: Reconfiguring Outer Space.- 5 Robert Poole; The Myth of Progress: 2001: A Space Odyssey.- 6         Florian Kläger; The Earthward Gaze and Self-reflexivity in Anglophone Novels of the 1970s.- 7 Thore Bjørnvig; Building Outer Space: LEGO and the Conquest of the Beyond in the 1970s.- 8 Luca Follis;The Province and Heritage of Humankind: Space Law’s Imaginary of Outer Space, 1967–1979.- Part III: Grounding Utopias.- 9 Andrew Jenks; Transnational Utopias, Space Exploration and the Association of Space Explorers, 1972–1985.- 10 Regina Peldszus; Architectural Experiments in Space: Orbital Stations, Simulators and Speculative Design, 1968–1982.- 11 Tilmann Siebeneichner; Spacelab: Peace, Progress and European Politics in Outer Space, 1973–1985.- 12 Peter J. Westwick; From the Club of Rome to Star Wars: The Era of Limits, Space Colonization and the Origins of SDI.- Epilogue.- 13 David A. Kirby; Final Frontiers? Envisioning Utopia in the Era of Limits.

Recenzii

“[This book] offer a fascinating reevaluation of space history from European perspectives. … I consider these books in the wider context of scholarship on Europe and space, asking how the concept of astroculture adds to these literatures as well as what limits it might hold.” (Benjamin W. Goossen, Contemporary European History, June 17, 2022)
“The scholarship is generally good, and the case studies are well chosen … . this volume also celebrates the paradoxes of the 1970s, when idealism, power politics, and commercial savvy were seamlessly connected.” (David Baneke, Isis, Vol. 110 (3), September, 2019)
“This ambitious publication program opens up new vistas in the cultural history of the space age, moving outward from accounts that prioritize the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union. … This is a book worth reading and rereading, depending upon your interests. It convinces that our understanding of the ways in which the brief, forceful projection of human beings into outer space matters has often been too limited. Limiting Outer Space … is a powerful re-survey of territory that might seem over-explored.” (De Witt Douglas Kilgore, Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 46 (3), November, 2019)
“An excellent collection of essays which encompasses a wide sweep of the impact of space research and space dreams on the cultural landscape of society as a whole, beyond the limiting technological confines within which the enterprise is usually examined. … The entire book is a thoroughly worthwhile thought-provoking read.” (Barry Kent, The Observatory, Vol. 139 (1270), June, 2019)

Notă biografică

Alexander C.T. Geppert is Associate Professor of History and European Studies and Global Network Associate Professor at New York University Shanghai as well as NYU’s Center for European and Mediterranean Studies in New York City. From 2010 to 2016 he directed the Emmy Noether research group ‘The Future in the Stars: European Astroculture and Extraterrestrial Life in the Twentieth Century’ at Freie Universität Berlin.


      


   

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Limiting Outer Space propels the historicization of outer space by focusing on the Post-Apollo period. After the Apollo moon landings, disillusionment set in. With the return of the last astronaut in 1972, the skies – rather than the distant stars – once again became the limit. No longer considered the inevitable destination of human expansion, outer space lost much of the popular appeal, cultural significance and political urgency that it had gained since the end of the Second World War. With the rapid waning of the worldwide Apollo frenzy, the optimism of the Space Age gave way to an era of planetized limits. Bringing together the history of European astroculture and American-Soviet spaceflight with recent scholarship on the 1970s, the thirteen chapters in this cutting-edge volume examine 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 between East and West, Limiting Outer Space breaks new ground by exploring a hitherto underrated and understudied decade, the Post-Apollo period.

Caracteristici

Second volume in the European Astroculture trilogy Propels the historicization of outer space by focusing on the 1970s, the Post-Apollo era of crisis and reconfiguration Utilises an international and transdisciplinary perspective to explore the cultural history of outer space Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras