Militarizing Outer Space | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781349960637 | Militarizing Outer Space | Astroculture, Dystopia and the Cold War

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

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.

Zusammenfassung

Studies the tension between 'science' and 'fiction' in the imagination of outer space from the late 1940s

Analyses how ambiguity influenced national space programs and spaceflight in Europe and the US

Addresses real and imagined processes of space militarization, complicating established Cold War narratives

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Genre:	Technik allg.
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Inhalt:	xxvi 443 S. 24 s/w Illustr. 29 farbige Illustr. 443 p. 53 illus. 29 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9781349960637
ISBN-10:	1349960632
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion:	Geppert, Alexander C. T. Siebeneichner, Tilmann Brandau, Daniel
Herausgeber:	Alexander C T Geppert/Daniel Brandau/Tilmann Siebeneichner
Auflage:	1st ed. 2021
Hersteller:	Palgrave Macmillan Palgrave Macmillan UK Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Maße:	235 x 155 x 26 mm
Von/Mit:	Alexander C. T. Geppert (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	25.02.2023
Gewicht:	0,709 kg

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