Journal ArticleDOI
Coming in at an Unusual Angle: Exo-Surprise and the Fieldworking Cosmonaut
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
The first ethnographic diarist of outer space was written by Lebedev as mentioned in this paper, who was on orbit for 211 days as a field-working cosmonaut and produced a thickly descriptive account of the intimate sociality and technoculture of the Soviet space complex Salyut 7.Abstract:
Valentin Lebedev is a pioneer of space and earth science in Russia. He is also the first ethnographic diarist of outer space. In 1982, while “on orbit” for 211 days as a fieldworking cosmonaut, Lebedev produced a thickly descriptive account of the intimate sociality and technoculture of the Soviet space complex Salyut 7. Crafted to defamiliarize (ostranenie) a spaceworld that publics saw as flawlessly engineered and managed, the diary is an argument for the value of exospheric (exo-) surprise in human experience. But on another level, we learn that the surprise is on humans who would claim to conquer “space-as-itself”—a “zero gravity” environment of force fields both extremely inhospitable to life as we know it and also generative of life in all its expressions.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Time and Narrative
TL;DR: In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing, fiction, and theories of literature as discussed by the authors, and this final volume, a comprehensive reexamination and synthesis of the ideas developed in volumes 1 and 2, stands as Ricoeure's most complete and satisfying presentation of his own philosophy.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque
TL;DR: Deleuze's book as mentioned in this paper explores the relationship between the Baroque and leibnizianism, focusing mainly on two images: the two-storied house and the fold.
Journal ArticleDOI
Gravity fixes: Habituating to the human on Mars and Island Three
TL;DR: The authors examine two sites proposed by outer space settlement advocates: the surface of Mars and the interior of a massive, rotating cylindrical space settlement called Island Three, and argue that these places unsettle habitual critical approaches to the human in outer space by posing radically different conditions through which to make accounts of the specific and the general, including that of humanness.
Journal ArticleDOI
Atmosphere: Context, detachment, and the view from above Earth
TL;DR: In outer space, the explanatory work done by context is put in question, because spacefaring humans must attend to basic and constantly shifting conditions for life that lie beyond "context" on Earth, including breathing as mentioned in this paper.
References
More filters
Book
Time and narrative
TL;DR: In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing, fiction, and theories of literature as mentioned in this paper, and this final volume, a comprehensive reexamination and synthesis of the ideas developed in volumes 1 and 2, stands as Ricoeure's most complete and satisfying presentation of his own philosophy.
Book
A treatise on the analytical dynamics of particles and rigid bodies
TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive account of analytical dynamics is given, starting from first principles with kinematics before moving to equations of motion and specific and explicit methods for solving them, with chapters devoted to particle dyanmics, rigid bodies, vibration and dissipative systems.
Journal ArticleDOI
Time and Narrative
TL;DR: In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing, fiction, and theories of literature as discussed by the authors, and this final volume, a comprehensive reexamination and synthesis of the ideas developed in volumes 1 and 2, stands as Ricoeure's most complete and satisfying presentation of his own philosophy.
Journal ArticleDOI
Autopoiesis: The Organization of Living Systems, Its Characterization and a Model
TL;DR: Notwithstanding their diversity, all living systems must share a common organization which the authors implicitly recognize calling them “living,” but there is no formulation of this organization, mainly because the great developments of molecular, genetic and evolutionary notions in contemporary biology have led to the overemphasis of isolated components.
Journal ArticleDOI
The emergence of multispecies ethnography
S. Eben Kirksey,Stefan Helmreich +1 more
TL;DR: Anthropologists have been committed, at least since Franz Boas, to investigating relationships between nature and culture, and this enduring interest was inflected with some new twists as mentioned in this paper.