Capital and the Cosmos

War, Society and the Quest for Profit

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

This book offers a new understanding of society’s relations with the cosmos. But these are being ignored and subverted by, for example, indigenous peoples. In short, this book setsout a new understanding of our relations with the cosmos.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-01-02
Mått:148 x 210 x 10 mm
Vikt:231 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:158
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031185007

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Peter Dickens teaches at the Departments of Sociology at Brighton, Cambridge and Lancaster Universities, UK. He is the co-author of Cosmic Society (2007) and co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Society, Culture and Outer Space (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). His book Society and Nature: Changing Our Environment, Changing Ourselves (2006) was given an Outstanding Publication Award by the American Sociological Association.

Innehållsförteckning

1. The Cosmos: Capitalism’s Outside?- 2. Libertarianism, Fantasy and Cosmic Capitalism.- 3. Individualism, Narcissism and the Cosmos.- 4. Circuits of Capital, Circuits of Earth.- 5. Producing Spacecraft.- 6. The Body and the Cosmos.- 7. A Cosmic Risk Society?- 8. Satellites, War and Capital Accumulation.- 9. Cosmic Capitalism and Space Law.- 10. Future Work.- 11. Prefigurative Politics: Towards a Cosmic Socialism?