Format:
1 online resource (162 pages)
ISBN:
9783031185014
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Understanding Cosmic Capitalism -- Towards an Alternative Understanding: Capital Accumulation and the Military -- Capital, Labour, Space and Marx -- References and Further Reading -- 2: Libertarianism and Cosmic Capitalism -- The Tyranny of the Majority -- Libertarianism and the Cosmos -- 'Capitalism': Some Misplaced Criticisms -- The Cosmos Incorporated into Capitalism -- Moon Science and Capital Accumulation -- The Artemis Project: Libertarianism Co-opted -- References and Further Reading -- 3: Narcissism, Fantasy and the Cosmos -- Narcissism and Phantasy: Accessing the Distant Cosmos? -- Outer Space Narcissism Today -- Narcissism and Cosmic Capitalism -- Society, the Cosmos and the Self -- Pro-Space Activism: Accessing the Cosmos to Save the World -- Cosmic Narcissism as Self-ownership -- References and Further Reading -- 4: Circuits of Earth, Circuits of Capital -- Satellites: Their Contradictory Purposes -- Capitalism, the Labour Processes and Satellites -- Cosmic 'Satellisation' and Circuits of Capital -- Circuits of Capital and Cosmic Fixes -- Circuits of Capital, Labour Processes and Surveillance -- Managing by Satellite: Some Contradictions Arising -- Satellites, Lifestyles and 'New' Forms of Consumption -- Satellites and Capital Flows -- Finance Capital and the Cosmos -- Capital, the Cosmos and 'Satellite Farming' -- References and Further Reading -- 5: Working in 'The Silent Sphere of Production' -- Making Spacecraft Today -- Making Landers: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena -- Making Spacecraft: United Launch Alliance -- The Landers on Mars -- Making a Mars Buggy: A Skilled Labour Process in Action -- The Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Employees' Comments -- Realising the Rover's Potential -- Preparation and the 'Science' Question.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031185007
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Dickens, Peter, 1940 - Capital and the cosmos Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022 ISBN 9783031185007
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
