Militarizing outer space : astroculture, dystopia and the cold war / Alexander C.T. Geppert, Daniel Brandau, Tilmann Siebeneichner, editors.
Geppert, Alexander C. T., editor.; Brandau, Daniel, editor.; Siebeneichner, Tilmann, editor.
2021
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Title
Militarizing outer space : astroculture, dystopia and the cold war / Alexander C.T. Geppert, Daniel Brandau, Tilmann Siebeneichner, editors.
ISBN
9781349958511 (electronic bk.)
1349958514 (electronic bk.)
9781349958528 (print)
1349958522
1349958506
9781349958504
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95851-1
Published
London, Unied Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxvi, 443 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Item Number
10.1057/978-1-349-95851-1 doi
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CB440
Dewey Decimal Classification
303.483
Summary
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 vio lence, 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 Astroculturetrilogy, 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 warfares 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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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 25, 2021).
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Geppert, Alexander C. T., editor.
Brandau, Daniel, editor.
Siebeneichner, Tilmann, editor.
Series
Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology.
European astroculture ; v. 1.
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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, 194570- 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, 193864- Oliver Dunnett
7. One Nation, Two Astrocultures? Rocketry, Security and Dual Use in Di-vided Germany, 194961- 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, 195080- Philipp Theisohn
10. Satellites and Psychics: The Militarization of Outer and Inner Space, 196095- 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, 197177- 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.

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