How Outer Space Made America : Geography, Organization and the Cosmic Sublime.

By:

Sage, Daniel

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781472423672

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Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: How Outer Space Made AmericaDDC classification:

629.40973

LOC classification:

TL789.8.U5 -- S24 2014eb

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Contents:

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introducing a Geography of Outer Space -- 1 America as Transcendental -- 2 Framing a World Beyond -- 3 Placing the Moon -- 4 Technocracy in the Space Age -- 5 Whose Body for Whose Future? -- 6 Was Revolution Ever in the Air? -- 7 Memorializing the Future -- 8 Traumatizing Spaceflight -- 9 Critical Cosmopolitics -- References -- Index.

Summary: In this innovatory book Daniel Sage analyses how and why American space exploration reproduced and transformed American cultural and political imaginations by appealing to, and to an extent organizing, the transcendence of spatial and temporal frontiers. While largely engaging with the historical development of space exploration, it shows how contemporary cultural and social, and indeed geographical, research themes, including national identity, critical geopolitics, gender, technocracy, trauma and memory, can be informed by the study of space exploration.

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In this innovatory book Daniel Sage analyses how and why American space exploration reproduced and transformed American cultural and political imaginations by appealing to, and to an extent organizing, the transcendence of spatial and temporal frontiers. While largely engaging with the historical development of space exploration, it shows how contemporary cultural and social, and indeed geographical, research themes, including national identity, critical geopolitics, gender, technocracy, trauma and memory, can be informed by the study of space exploration.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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