LEADER 03883nam 22006015 450 001 9910639882303321 005 20251009105926.0 010 $a9783031185014$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031185007 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-18501-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7166045 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7166045 035 $a(CKB)25913686900041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-18501-4 035 $a(EXLCZ)9925913686900041 100 $a20221230d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCapital and the Cosmos $eWar, Society and the Quest for Profit /$fby Peter Dickens 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (162 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Dickens, Peter Capital and the Cosmos Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031185007 327 $a1. The Cosmos: Capitalism?s Outside?- 2. Libertarianism, Fantasy and Cosmic Capitalism -- 3. Individualism, Narcissism and the Cosmos -- 4. Circuits of Capital, Circuits of Earth -- 5. Producing Spacecraft -- 6. The Body and the Cosmos -- 7. A Cosmic Risk Society?- 8. Satellites, War and Capital Accumulation -- 9. Cosmic Capitalism and Space Law -- 10. Future Work -- 11. Prefigurative Politics: Towards a Cosmic Socialism? 330 $aThis book offers a new understanding of society?s relations with the cosmos. Entrepreneurs such as Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk receive a great deal of publicity, but offer unlikely and implausible visions of space tourism for the general public. Meanwhile, asteroids are seen as ?rare materials? which will be extracted and used to produce untold riches for earthbound citizens. The reality is rather different. First, there is no evidence that owners of capital are attempting to extract ?rare? materials in the cosmos. The costs would be ?out of this world?. But capital, not governments, is determining how outer space should be used. Capital?s investments in aerospace companies are actively determining forms of military interventions and the equipment used. And satellite television pumps out forms of culture aimed at a global audience. But these are being ignored and subverted by, for example, indigenous peoples. In short, this book sets outa new understanding of our relations with the cosmos. The forces of capital are certainly powerful but at the same time they are being challenged, subverted and even overturned. Peter Dickens teaches at the Departments of Sociology at Brighton, Cambridge and Lancaster Universities, UK. He is the co-author of Cosmic Society (2007) and co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Society, Culture and Outer Space (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). His book Society and Nature: Changing Our Environment, Changing Ourselves (2006) was given an Outstanding Publication Award by the American Sociological Association. 606 $aEnvironmental sciences$xSocial aspects 606 $aSociology 606 $aHuman geography 606 $aEconomics$xSociological aspects 606 $aEnvironmental Social Sciences 606 $aSociology 606 $aHuman Geography 606 $aEconomic Sociology 615 0$aEnvironmental sciences$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aSociology. 615 0$aHuman geography. 615 0$aEconomics$xSociological aspects. 615 14$aEnvironmental Social Sciences. 615 24$aSociology. 615 24$aHuman Geography. 615 24$aEconomic Sociology. 676 $a338.0919 676 $a303.483 700 $aDickens$b Peter$035635 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910639882303321 996 $aCapital and the Cosmos$93003382 997 $aUNINA