Militarizing Outer Space
Brandau, Daniel
Abstract
This lavishly illustrated volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Space Age.It expands historiography beyond the superpowers and radically reconceptualizes outer space.Militarizing Outer Space obliges us to think of "outer space" as a zone beyond the confines of the earth, produced by cultural, political and technological interventions that embed it in earthly projects and respond to a multitude of hopes and anxieties.Space is not a remote, inaccessible realm, but a nearby "non-space" that can be populated by technological infrastructures advocated by the military and appropriated by the market, colonized by earthlings fleeing Armageddon or the disasters of climate change, and filled with utopian aspirations or dystopian fears, but always appropriated by multiple stakeholders who imagine new worlds and ways of being in response to critical contingencies in everyday life.Readers will discover new and unexpected features of their life worlds presented in outstanding essays framed by a superb introduction and conclusion.' -John Krige,