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I’m not really a fan of the fashionable humanities concept of “imaginaries” but the appeal of space flight truly is unintelligible outside the political imaginaries attached to it
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"In principle, space tourism could be a spiritually shattering experience. In practice, it will merely generate new “rich kid” content for Instagram." newstatesman.com/science-tech/2
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though you are technically sophisticated and have some background in the close-to-humanities technology of computing, I suspect at some level this mindset is fundamentally alien for you... I think you get tech intellectually but not in this visceral sense...
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Yes, the political imaginaries matter, especially for explicitly political writers ranging from asimov to le guin who construct them very consciously, but the choice of space and its appeal is neither a casual accident, nor inconsequential...
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