LEADER 05030nam 22006495 450 001 9910299791603321 005 20230810153630.0 010 $a9781349953394 010 $a1349953393 024 7 $a10.1057/978-1-349-95339-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000003359146 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5372089 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-349-95339-4 035 $a(Perlego)3483567 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000003359146 100 $a20180425d2018 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aImagining Outer Space $eEuropean Astroculture in the Twentieth Century /$fedited by Alexander C.T. Geppert 205 $a2nd ed. 2018. 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan UK :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (459 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology,$x2730-9738 311 08$a9781349953387 311 08$a1349953385 327 $aFigures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. European Astrofuturism, Cosmic Provincialism Historicizing the Space Age; A.C.T.Geppert -- PART I: NARRATING OUTER SPACE -- 2. Space, Time and Aliens:The Role of Imagination in Outer Space; S.J.Dick -- 3. Heaven on Earth: Tunguska, 30 June 1908; C.Schmölders -- 4. Imagining Inorganic Life: Crystalline Aliens in Science and Fiction; T.Brandstetter -- PART II: PROJECTING OUTER SPACE -- 5. Projecting Landscapes of the Human Mind onto Another World: Changing Faces of an Imaginary Mars; R.Eisfeld -- 6. 'Smash the Myth of the Fascist Rocket Baron': East German Attacks on Wernher von Braun in the 1960s; M.J.Neufeld -- 7. Transcendence of Gravity: Arthur C. Clarke and the Apocalypse of Weightlessness: T.Bjørnvig -- PART III: VISUALIZING OUTER SPACE -- 8. Per Media Ad Astra?: Outer Space in West Germany's Media, 1957-87; B.Mütter -- 9. Balloons on the Moon: Visions of Space Travel in Francophone Comic Strips; G.de Syon -- 10. 'A Stumble in the Dark': Contextualizing Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's Space: 1999; H.Keazor -- PART IV: ENCOUNTERING OUTER SPACE -- 11. Life as We Don't Yet Know It: An Anthropologist's First Contact with the Science of 'Weird Life'; D.Battaglia -- 12. A Ghost in the Machine: How Sociology Tried to Explain (Away) American Flying Saucers and European Ghost Rockets, 1946-47; P.Lagrange -- 13. Seeing the Future of Civilization in the Skies of Quarouble: UFO Encounters and the Problem of Empire in Postwar France; J.Miller -- PART V: INSCRIBING OUTER SPACE -- 14. Self-Reproducing Automata and the Impossibility of SETI; G.Munévar -- 15. Inscribing Scientific Knowledge: Interstellar Communication, NASA's Pioneer Plaque, and Contact with Cultures of the Imagination, 1971-72; W.R.Macauley -- 16. Alien Spotting: Damien Hirst's Beagle 2 , Mars Lander Calibration Target and the Exploitation of Outer Space; T.Weddigen -- Epilogue -- 17. Look Up: Art in the Age of Orbitization; P.Pocock -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aImagining Outer Space makes a captivating advance into the cultural history of outer space and extraterrestrial life in the European imagination. How was outer space conceived and communicated? What promises of interplanetary expansion and cosmic colonization propelled the project of human spaceflight to the forefront of twentieth-century modernity? In what way has West-European astroculture been affected by the continuous exploration of outer space? Tracing the thriving interest in spatiality to early attempts at exploring imaginary worlds beyond our own, the book analyzes contact points between science and fiction from a transdisciplinary perspective and examines sites and situations where utopian images and futuristic technologies contributed to the omnipresence of fantasmatic thought. Bringing together state-of-the-art work in this emerging field of historical research, the volume breaks new ground in the historicization of the Space Age. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology,$x2730-9738 606 $aScience$xHistory 606 $aAstronomy 606 $aEurope$xHistory 606 $aSocial history 606 $aHistory, Modern 606 $aHistory of Science 606 $aAstronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences 606 $aEuropean History 606 $aSocial History 606 $aModern History 615 0$aScience$xHistory. 615 0$aAstronomy. 615 0$aEurope$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial history. 615 0$aHistory, Modern. 615 14$aHistory of Science. 615 24$aAstronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences. 615 24$aEuropean History. 615 24$aSocial History. 615 24$aModern History. 676 $a387.80940904 702 $aGeppert$b Alexander C.T$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910299791603321 996 $aImagining Outer Space$92501114 997 $aUNINA