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Imagining Outer Space : European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century / / edited by Alexander C.T. Geppert
| Imagining Outer Space : European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century / / edited by Alexander C.T. Geppert |
| Edizione | [2nd ed. 2018.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (459 pages) |
| Disciplina | 387.80940904 |
| Collana | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology |
| Soggetto topico |
History
Astronomy Europe—History Social history History, Modern History of Science Popular Science in Astronomy European History Social History Modern History |
| ISBN | 1-349-95339-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Figures -- 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910299791603321 |
| London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Limiting Outer Space : Astroculture After Apollo / / edited by Alexander C.T. Geppert
| Limiting Outer Space : Astroculture After Apollo / / edited by Alexander C.T. Geppert |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (375 pages) |
| Disciplina | 387.80940904 |
| Collana | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology |
| Soggetto topico |
History
Observations, Astronomical Astronomy—Observations Civilization—History Technology—History History of Science Astronomy, Observations and Techniques Cultural History History of Technology |
| ISBN | 1-137-36916-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- 1 Alexander C.T. Geppert; The Post-Apollo Paradox: Envisioning Limits During the Planetized 1970s -- Part I: Navigating the 1970s -- 2 Martin Collins; The 1970s: Spaceflight and Historically Interpreting the In-between Decade -- 3 Roger D. Launius; Responding to Apollo: America’s Divergent Reactions to the Moon Landings -- 4 Doug Millard; A Grounding in Space: Were the 1970s a Period of Transition in Britain’s Exploration of Outer Space? -- Part II: Reconfiguring Outer Space -- 5 Robert Poole; The Myth of Progress: 2001: A Space Odyssey -- 6 Florian Kläger; The Earthward Gaze and Self-reflexivity in Anglophone Novels of the 1970s -- 7 Thore Bjørnvig; Building Outer Space: LEGO and the Conquest of the Beyond in the 1970s -- 8 Luca Follis;The Province and Heritage of Humankind: Space Law’s Imaginary of Outer Space, 1967–1979 -- Part III: Grounding Utopias -- 9 Andrew Jenks; Transnational Utopias, Space Exploration and the Association of Space Explorers, 1972–1985 -- 10 Regina Peldszus; Architectural Experiments in Space: Orbital Stations, Simulators and Speculative Design, 1968–1982 -- 11 Tilmann Siebeneichner; Spacelab: Peace, Progress and European Politics in Outer Space, 1973–1985 -- 12 Peter J. Westwick; From the Club of Rome to Star Wars: The Era of Limits, Space Colonization and the Origins of SDI -- Epilogue -- 13 David A. Kirby; Final Frontiers? Envisioning Utopia in the Era of Limits. . |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910299792103321 |
| London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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