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Rebellion's fury
\"Damian Ward thought he was done fighting. But the retired veteran and war hero is now leading the revolution against the oppressive Federal America--a bloody battle for the future of his adopted planet that will cost brave rebel lives. But failure means living under the yoke of tyranny--a price Ward and the people of Haven refuse to pay. Federal America cannot allow Haven to break away. If rebellion is successful on one colony, it will spread, and threaten the flow of wealth and raw materials the government needs. With its superior troops and weaponry, it will crush the traitorous rebellion, and retain the empire's standing and power. The colonists have won the first battle, and driven the government forces from the planet. But the Federals are by no means defeated. For just months after the brutal Colonel Semmes and his defeated troops return to Earth, a new force is gathering, larger, better-equipped, and augmented with front line units, veterans of the last war, ready to take back the planet and end the threat of rebellion once and for all\"--From back cover.
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Engineering Territory: Space and Colonies in Silicon Valley
Although space colonization appears to belong to the world of science fiction, private corporations owned by Silicon Valley billionaires—and supported by the US state—have spent billions making it a reality. Analyses of space colonialism have sometimes viewed these projects as distinct from earthly histories of colonialism, instead locating them within traditions of libertarianism, neoliberalism, or techno-utopianism. By reconstructing technology elites’ political visions for celestial settlements within the literature on colonial-era corporations and property, this study argues that the idea of outer space as an empty frontier relies on the same logic of territorialization that was used to justify terrestrial colonialism and indigenous dispossession. It further traces how the idea of “engineering territory” has inspired wider Silicon Valley political exit projects such as cyberspace, seasteading, and network states, which, rather than creating spaces of anarchical freedom, are attempting to recreate the territorial state in new spaces.
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The vanished birds
\"Nia Imani is a woman out of place and outside of time. Decades of travel through the stars are condensed into mere months for her, though the years continue to march steadily onward for everyone she has ever known. Her friends and lovers have aged past her, and all she has left is work. Alone and adrift, she lives for only the next paycheck, until the day she meets a mysterious boy, fallen from the sky. A boy, broken by his past. The scarred child does not speak, his only form of communication the beautiful and haunting music he plays from an old wooden flute. Captured by his songs, and their strange, immediate connection, Nia decides to take the boy in. And over years of starlit travel, these two outsiders discover in one another the things they lacked. For him, a home, a place of love and safety. For her, an anchor to the world outside herself. For the both of them, a family. But Nia is not the only one who wants the boy. The past hungers for him, and when it catches up, it threatens to tear this makeshift family apart\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Space Colonization and Existential Risk
Ian Stoner has recently argued that we ought not to colonize Mars because (1) doing so would flout our pro tanto obligation not to violate the principle of scientific conservation, and (2) there is no countervailing considerations that render our violation of the principle permissible. While I remain agnostic on (1), my primary goal in this article is to challenge (2): there are countervailing considerations that render our violation of the principle permissible. As such, Stoner has failed to establish that we ought not to colonize Mars. I close with some thoughts on what it would take to show that we do have an obligation to colonize Mars and related issues concerning the relationship between the way we discount our preferences over time and projects with long time horizons, like space colonization.
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Tangled planet
\"It's taken four hundred years of travel, but the starship Venture has finally arrived at its destination, Beta Earth, an uninhabited, untouched planet. The first night seventeen-year-old engineer Ursa is on Beta Earth, she encounters a dead body. She's positive she saw a large creature with sharp teeth, something that shouldn't even be on the planet, but nobody believes her. As injuries and bodies start piling up, Ursa must figure out who to trust when her fellow crewmates start taking sides between maintaining Venture's safety and the hope of creating a home on Beta Earth\"--Amazon.com
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Leaving Planet Earth
Old Earth has nothing left for us, and so it is time for a new beginning. Cross galaxies, traverse light years and find yourself in a world where you can be the centre of your own universe. Welcome to New Earth. Never look back. Vela, the revered and celebrated architect of this new society, has recently been avoiding her public duties in favour of visiting the Old Earth Museum and the company of its Security Guard. As the final migrants arrive, she is becoming increasingly obsessed by her memories, and questions are growing about her sanity. Leaving Planet Earth is a site-responsive promenade production on an epic scale. Tracing the story of humanity's first migration into space, it asks fundamental questions about our connection to this planet. Should we leave this world, and if so, who will endure and at what cost?
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Space, Architecture, and Science Fiction: An Architectural Interpretation of Space Colonization
Expanding its living zone and territories has been a source of motivation for mankind since the beginning of its existence. Most scientific work throughout history has been for learning new things and revealing the unknown for human beings. The idea of living in outer space—a prominent phenomenon—has been an inspiration not only for many science-fiction works, but also for scientific efforts to design space colonies, an emerging trend in the last few decades. These ideas, having first occurred as fantasies unrelated with reality, became more realistic over time with the aid of improvements in science and technology. Indeed, today there are theoretical models generating possibilities of building an actual station for a colony in space. No matter if in the far or remote future, space colonization appears to be an inevitable step in the evolution of mankind. In this article, the questions to be considered about building space colonies are interpreted based on scientific work and contemporary science fiction products from an architectural point of view. When a space colony is considered in terms of shape, it is necessary to compose an axial formation spinning around a central axis. The most appropriate versions of this formation are the sphere, cylinder, and torus. Realistic and scientific space colony designs executed in past have all been based on these shapes. But living in outer space brings up a number of different issues and questions besides shape. Some of these important questions include: gravity, atmosphere, cosmic radiation, energy, sustainability, and positioning. There are also humanistic issues such as the psychological and social needs of colonists. In addition, from an architectural perspective, space colonization must be interpreted in different categories such as regional planning, transportation, infrastructure, civil architecture, and individualization. Space colonization offers an important alternative living habitat for humanity; however, the number of studies on this subject has to increase and include contributions from different disciplines that provide alternative perspectives and approaches. In this regard, it is important to compose an architectural interpretation of space colonization, as it provides a possibility of intercepting a new way of thinking about this important subject.
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Imaginaire afrotechnologique et décolonisation de l'espace dans la creation artistique française contemporaine
The posthumanist thought emerged in an environment marked by the ideology of industrial progress, encouraged by the European modernity and colonialism. Thus, the imaginary of space colonization, future and science fiction, was mainly shaped from a Eurocentric point of view. In the 1970s, the Afrofuturist movement reappropriated these representations and politicized the relationship to the outer space, reinscribing an Afrodescendent origin, in which displacement and migration echoed a recent past. The \"reconquest\" of space from the African point of view engages a kind of astro-technological decolonization: the contemporary artists of the French scene Kapwani Kiwanga and Josèfa Ntjam embody in an emblematic way the stakes of power, knowledge and projection in the future staged in science fiction narratives.
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Local Heritage/Global Forces: Hybrid Identities in Le Guin’s The Telling
This paper examines Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Telling (2000), her last novel in the Hainish Cycle, which addresses intercultural communications among her imagined worlds. These relationships, which resemble those of our globalizing world, are analyzed in the light of Homi Bhabha’s theories of mimicry, hybridity and the Third Space. It is suggested that in this novel, Le Guin criticizes cultural imperialism and rejects both conservative and assimilative attitudes toward the other; instead, she praises hybridity as the culture of our globalizing world. Besides warning against the hegemony of the West in international relationships, through analogy, The Telling highlights the ways the developing countries could be responsible for their own colonialism and the annihilation of their own culture. In this context, this paper proposes that the Dovzans, lured by Hain’s advanced technology, as an act of self-colonization, impoverish their lives and deny their entire culture by criminalizing the Telling. The article further argues that indigenous peoples and groups of minorities, through hybridity and focus on their difference, not only can survive and conserve their local heritage and identity in the face of intense globalization pressures but also affect the dominant power. Accordingly, Sutty and the people of Okzat-Ozkat are introduced as courageous hybrid characters who finally succeed in asserting their voice in the third space. The article concludes that through bargaining with the Ekumen and remaining faithful to their own culture, the people of Okzat-Ozkat can save the Telling from extermination.
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\Störfälle\: Literary Accounts from Chernobyl to Fukushima
Nuclear accidents and the radiation they release into the environment exceed human sensory perception and, ultimately, comprehension. Whereas sociological analyses of such catastrophes tend to emphasize the difficulties of risk management, writers of literary texts raise questions of meaning and narrative control. Spanning the period from 1987 to 2012, the disaster texts by Christa Wolf, Inka Parei, Yoko Tawada, and Elfriede Jelinek that are the focus of this essay explore the personal, political, linguistic, and historical complexities of such catastrophes. Expressing and acknowledging the helplessness of the subject, they offer narrative approaches to catastrophe beyond individual responses and responsibilities.
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