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What happens when contemporary space exploration outgrows Space Age modernity? In this volume, a collective of social scientists and humanities scholars provides an introduction to the emerging field of outer space studies. This is done by means of "otherwhere ethnography," richly detailed accounts of how space research and space enterprises are being rethought in an age where extraterrestrial exploration is no longer the monopoly of a handful of superpowers. While many off-Earth endeavours remain embedded within characteristically modern forms of thought--scientism, productivism, extractivism, (neo-)colonialism--there is also an emerging trend to move away from such ingrained conceptual frameworks. If one looks beyond the much-hyped projects of billionaire space gurus and their coterie of rocket-obsessed followers, one notices that Space Age modernity can also be thought otherwise, and that the very idea of "exploration" has already mutated into something else. Outer space studies can be envisaged as the antenna that seeks to capture this momentous, ongoing mutation.

What happens when contemporary space exploration outgrows Space Age modernity? In this volume, a collective of social scientists and humanities scholars provides an introduction to the emerging field of outer space studies. This is done by means of "e;otherwhere ethnography,"e; richly detailed accounts of how space research and space enterprises are being rethought in an age where extraterrestrial exploration is no longer the monopoly of a handful of superpowers. While many off-Earth endeavours remain embedded within characteristically modern forms of thought--scientism, productivism, extractivism, (neo-)colonialism--there is also an emerging trend to move away from such ingrained conceptual frameworks. If one looks beyond the much-hyped projects of billionaire space gurus and their coterie of rocket-obsessed followers, one notices that Space Age modernity can also be thought otherwise, and that the very idea of "e;exploration"e; has already mutated into something else. Outer space studies can be envisaged as the antenna that seeks to capture this momentous, ongoing mutation.

What happens when contemporary space exploration outgrows Space Age modernity? In this volume, a collective of social scientists and humanities scholars provides an introduction to the emerging field of outer space studies. This is done by means of "e;otherwhere ethnography,"e; richly detailed accounts of how space research and space enterprises are being rethought in an age where extraterrestrial exploration is no longer the monopoly of a handful of superpowers. While many off-Earth endeavours remain embedded within characteristically modern forms of thought--scientism, productivism, extractivism, (neo-)colonialism--there is also an emerging trend to move away from such ingrained conceptual frameworks. If one looks beyond the much-hyped projects of billionaire space gurus and their coterie of rocket-obsessed followers, one notices that Space Age modernity can also be thought otherwise, and that the very idea of "e;exploration"e; has already mutated into something else. Outer space studies can be envisaged as the antenna that seeks to capture this momentous, ongoing mutation.

A Matter of Detail inspires new ways of thinking about detail by bringing anthropology, philosophy, art history, and aesthetics into direct conversation. Co-editors Brandel, Das, Laugier, and Pitrou challenge a long-standing assumption that the history of detail begins with European modernity and follows a teleological course from an object of scorn to a sign of the good. In its place, they offer a history of attention to detail that draws on classical and vernacular histories and traditions found in grammar, ritual, and poetics around the world. Emphasizing detail as a method and moving between its usage as a noun (detail) and a verb (detailing) enables them to tell stories about the reassembly of detail across accidents, contingencies, and unintended consequences.From this vantage, the book argues that details are not always small and insignificant. Rather, there is a dynamic relationship between the minute and the grand, detail and surface, which makes the proliferation of details threatening to the idea of an authoritative and integrated imagination of the whole. This expanded context generates ways of conceiving detail as a conceptual and moral mode of self-formation and being toward others, both human and non-human.

A Matter of Detail inspires new ways of thinking about detail by bringing anthropology, philosophy, art history, and aesthetics into direct conversation. Co-editors Brandel, Das, Laugier, and Pitrou challenge a long-standing assumption that the history of detail begins with European modernity and follows a teleological course from an object of scorn to a sign of the good. In its place, they offer a history of attention to detail that draws on classical and vernacular histories and traditions found in grammar, ritual, and poetics around the world. Emphasizing detail as a method and moving between its usage as a noun (detail) and a verb (detailing) enables them to tell stories about the reassembly of detail across accidents, contingencies, and unintended consequences.From this vantage, the book argues that details are not always small and insignificant. Rather, there is a dynamic relationship between the minute and the grand, detail and surface, which makes the proliferation of details threatening to the idea of an authoritative and integrated imagination of the whole. This expanded context generates ways of conceiving detail as a conceptual and moral mode of self-formation and being toward others, both human and non-human.

The Off Earth Atlas is a guidebook to the extraterrestrial from a social science perspective. Bringing together forty entries by social scientists, anthropologists, artists, and interdisciplinary thinkers, the book explores how humans build social worlds in relation to the sciences, infrastructures, imaginaries, myths, and shifting presence of Outer Space.Inspired in part by the playful speculative spirit of Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the atlas examines not only what humans do off Earth, but also how such endeavours transform the ways we inhabit and understand life on our own planet. It is precisely this movement of going off-Earth - and returning - that the collection seeks to capture.As anthropologists, the editors are all, in different ways, concerned with how space - as physical realm, technical configuration, and conceptual category - shapes human meaning-making. What kinds of relationships are being formed with the Moon, Sun, stars, and planets? How does thinking about life on other planets, humans surviving beyond the limit of our atmosphere, mining the Moon, or praying to the heavens, change our ideas of the human, spiritual, or material worlds we inhabit?The collection brings together diverse perspectives on territories, infrastructures, cosmologies, life, law, technology, art, and planetary futures. Rather than presenting Outer Space as distant or purely technical, the book argues that space is already deeply entangled with everyday social, political, ecological, and cultural life on Earth.Combining critical scholarship, visual materials, speculative reflection, and interdisciplinary dialogue, The Off-Earth Atlas offers a new way of thinking through and with Outer Space.The book will be of interest to all who have an interest in outer space, and to those who have never really thought about it.

The Off Earth Atlas is a guidebook to the extraterrestrial from a social science perspective. Bringing together forty entries by social scientists, anthropologists, artists, and interdisciplinary thinkers, the book explores how humans build social worlds in relation to the sciences, infrastructures, imaginaries, myths, and shifting presence of Outer Space.Inspired in part by the playful speculative spirit of Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the atlas examines not only what humans do off Earth, but also how such endeavours transform the ways we inhabit and understand life on our own planet. It is precisely this movement of going off-Earth - and returning - that the collection seeks to capture.As anthropologists, the editors are all, in different ways, concerned with how space - as physical realm, technical configuration, and conceptual category - shapes human meaning-making. What kinds of relationships are being formed with the Moon, Sun, stars, and planets? How does thinking about life on other planets, humans surviving beyond the limit of our atmosphere, mining the Moon, or praying to the heavens, change our ideas of the human, spiritual, or material worlds we inhabit?The collection brings together diverse perspectives on territories, infrastructures, cosmologies, life, law, technology, art, and planetary futures. Rather than presenting Outer Space as distant or purely technical, the book argues that space is already deeply entangled with everyday social, political, ecological, and cultural life on Earth.Combining critical scholarship, visual materials, speculative reflection, and interdisciplinary dialogue, The Off-Earth Atlas offers a new way of thinking through and with Outer Space.The book will be of interest to all who have an interest in outer space, and to those who have never really thought about it.