MPA Interview with Fred Moten and Stefano Harney.pdf (original) (raw)
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2017
Now available in August 2018, the complete book. Inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey, this book presents an entirely new space philosophy for the human species: based in science, aesthetics, ecology, and planetary cooperation. Blurb inside cover: "Like David Bowie’s Major Tom, 'floating in a most peculiar way', Barry Vacker seems to contemplate Planet Earth through the porthole of a spacecraft. Via critiques of the Apollo program and films like 2001 and Interstellar, Barry offers us a unique opportunity to step back and think of the contradictions of space exploration and our contemporary society. Barry shows we live in a 'post-Apollo' culture torn between a frenetic race towards ever more scientific-technological progress and a just as powerful fall-back into the cultural ideologies of tribal ages of the past. For those who can embrace their non-centrality and possible meaninglessness in a majestic universe, yet yearn for a shared destiny in a sane planetary civilization, Specter of the Monolith is a wonderful and inspiring work." — Carine and Elisabeth Krecke (internationally renowned artists). Available in high-quality paperback in Amazon and Barnes & Noble; available in Kindle and Apple iBook.
The Trans*-ness of Blackness, the Blackness of Trans*-ness
The essay thinks radically differently about the concepts of black and trans*. Trans* and black thus denote poetic, para-ontological forces that are only tangentially, and ultimately arbitrarily , related to bodies said to be black or transgender. That is to say, they are differently inflected names for an anoriginal lawlessness that marks an escape from confinement and a besidedness to ontology. Manifesting in the modern world differently as race and gender fugitivity, black and trans*, though pointed at by bodies that identify as black or trans*, precede and provide the foundational condition for those fugitive identificatory demarcations. The author seeks to demonstrate the ways in which trans* is black and black is trans*. In what ways, and to what extent, is there a " blackness " present within " trans*-ness, " and vice versa? What is the effect of these analytics? This essay hopes to address these questions but also leave them suspended in black/trans* liminality.
jordanmatthewSPST699ThesisFinalDraft.pdf
Mars has been a stated goal of major space programs since the 1960’s. However, humanity is always “a decade or so away.” Beyond the technical issues associated with human spaceflight, the problem of launching a full-scale exploration of Mars is compounded by lack of proper funding, lack of political will, and an abundance of risk aversion. Using telerobotic exploration, both orbital and in situ observations of the Red Planet have revealed that it may once have been a hospitable home to life, but more detailed human exploration is needed to determine if life has ever existed there. Proposed mission plans for a crewed Mars mission were evaluated using a pass/fail grade based on crewmember health, funding feasibility, and sustainability. Such grading was accomplished using original materials about each plan to determine the feasibility of each area independent of the other two. Analysis reveals that while Robert Zubrin’s Mars Direct plan has the greatest potential for a Mars mission in the shortest timeframe, SpaceX’s Mars Colony Transport plan has the highest probability of achieving a crewed mission to Mars. I recommend a hybrid mission which uses the Mars Base Camp plan as a precursor and Zubrin’s architecture as a springboard into the larger SpaceX colonization plan. This would be sufficient to drive both alacrity and mass colonization within 50 years.
From Community to the Undercommons: Preindividual – Transindividual – Dividual – Condividual
Open! Platform for Art, Culture and the Public Domain, 2015
In reflecting on new sociabilities and communities, Christoph Brunner and Gerald Raunig ask how individuals “enter into composition with one another in order to form a higher individual, ad infinitum,” and how a being “can take another being into its world, but while preserving or respecting the other’s own relations and world.” They respond with a detailed consideration of Stefano Harney and Fred Moten’s concept of the undercommons as a micro-political active power.
The Theory and Economics of MARS and MOON Colonization: Steps and Policy Advocacy
World-renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has said that humanity will face a choice between space colonization and extinction. NASA wants to put a human on an asteroid by 2025 and on Mars by 2030. Scientific discoveries solve global economic and interplanetary economic problems. Economics and Science are two important drivers for mankind welfare. The economic driver of man would pursue extraterrestrial life. New Economics deal the economic driver of industrialization of moon and colonization of mars. The present study focuses on the theory, economics, steps and possibilities of colonization of mars and moon in specific and other planets in general. The study is based on frame work of vision and the meta-analysis of history of intellectual Economics and inter planetary explorative space research. The study analyzes historical planetary space research evidences, insights and rationales on colonization of Mars, Moon and other planets and life possibilities and steps to achieve. It also analyzes the theory and New Economics that bridges economics opportunities and Inter planetary space colonization which is imperative for extraterrestrial life and prosperity. The study uses meta-analysis of inter planetary research which has done by NASA, Japan, UK, Germany, Russia, India, Netherlands and other countries. The study found that surface conditions and the presence of water on Mars make it the most hospitable of life. New studies suggest that Moon more hospitable to life. It was reported that some lichen and cyanobacteria survived. Mars's north and south poles are attracted great interest as settlement sites. The ultimate viability of all this really comes down to economics. In theory, the resources floating up in space be the economic fuel necessary to take us to the stars. The Law of abundance may bring down the price of such commodities (including energy). Mars–Earth trade may provide an economic rationale for continued settlement of the planet. This is possible because of breakthroughs happened in space and rocket science. The path to a human colony could be prepared by robotic