Title:
Into the extreme : U.S. environmental systems and politics beyond Earth / Valerie Olson.
Author:
Olson, Valerie, 1963- author.
Publication Information:
Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]
Call Number:
TL1489 .O47 2018
Abstract:
"This book reveals how outer space contributes the scope and scale of today's natural and social environments. With access to spaceflight worksites ranging from astronaut training programs to life science labs, Valerie Olson examines how U.S. experts work within the solar system as the container of life and as a vast site for new forms of technical and political environmental control."--The publisher.
ISBN:
9781517902544
9781517902551
Physical Description:
ix, 290 pages ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Abbreviations -- Introduction: a system of systems -- Metasystem: making spaceflight's parts -- Connection: the ecobiopolitics of space biomedicine -- Separation: building partial boundaries -- Transhabitation: universalizing architecture -- The solar ecosystem: postterrestrial ecologies and economies -- Conclusion: future space.
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