Militarizing Outer Space

Astroculture, Dystopia and the Cold War
Herausgeber: Geppert, Alexander C. T.; Brandau, Daniel; Siebeneichner, Tilmann

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Produktbeschreibung

Militarizing Outer Space explores the dystopian and destructive dimensions of the Space Age and challenges conventional narratives of a bipolar Cold War rivalry. Concentrating on weapons, warfare and viölence, this provocative volume examines real and imagined endeavors of arming the skies and conquering the heavens. The third and final volume in the groundbreaking ¿European Astroculture trilogy, ¿Militarizing Outer Space zooms in on the interplay between security, technopolitics and knowledge from the 1920s through the 1980s. Often hailed as the site of heavenly utopias and otherworldly salvation, outer space transformed from a promised sanctuary to a present threat, where the battles of the future were to be waged. Astroculture proved instrumental in fathoming forms and functions of warfare¿s futures past, both on earth and in space. The allure of dominating outer space, the book shows, was neither limited to the early twenty-first century nor to current American space force rhetorics.

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Produktdetails

• Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK
• 1st ed. 2021
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 709g
• ISBN-13: 9781349960637
• ISBN-10: 1349960632
• Artikelnr.: 66990435

Autorenporträt

Alexander C. T. Geppert is Associate Professor of History and European Studies at New York University, USA. He holds a joint appointment at NYU Shanghai and the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies in New York City. Daniel Brandau is a postdoctoral research associate at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Tilmann Siebeneichner is a postdoctoral research associate at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Spacewar! The Dark Side of Astroculture
Alexander C. T. Geppert and Tilmann Siebeneichner.
 Part I: Embattling the Heavens.
 2. Cold War
But No War
in Space
Michael J. Neufeld.
 3. The Nuclear Roots of the Space Race
Christopher Gainor.
 4. West European Integration and the Militarization of Outer Space, 1945
70
Michael Sheehan.
 Part II: Waging Future Wars.
 5. In Space, Violence Rules: Clashes and Conquests in Science Fiction Cinema
Natalija Majsova.
 6. C. S. Lewis and the Moral Threat of Space Exploration, 1938
64
Oliver Dunnett.
 7. One Nation, Two Astrocultures? Rocketry, Security and Dual Use in Di
vided Germany, 1949
61
Daniel Brandau.
 Part III: Armoring Minds and Bodies.
 8. Participant Evolution: Cold War Space Medicine and the Militarization of the Cyborg Self
Patrick Kilian.
 9. Starship Troopers: The Shaping of the Space Warrior in Cold War As
troculture, 1950
80
Philipp Theisohn.
 10. Satellites and Psychics: The Militarization of Outer and Inner Space, 1960
95
Anthony Enns.
 Part IV: Mounting Infrastructures.
 11. Architectures of Command: The Dual
Use Legacy of Mission Control Centers
Regina Peldszus.
 12. Space Spies in the Open: Military Space Stations and Heroic Cosmo
nauts in the Post
Apollo Period, 1971
77
Cathleen Lewis.
 13. Satellite Navigation and the Military
Civilian Dilemma: The Geopolitics of GPS and its Rivals
Paul E. Ceruzzi.
 14. What Is, and To What End Do We Study, European Astroculture?
Alexander C. T. Geppert.