Second NYU Space Talk of season XI coming up on 10 March 2026: Piero Messina on Italy's participation in Spacelab

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#spacetalks #astroculture #spacehistory

First NYU Space Talk of season XI coming up on 17 February 2026: anthropologist Valerie A. Olson (UC Irvine) on contemporary astropreneurs

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#spacetalks #astroculture #spacehistory #elonmusk

Astropreneurs, Italy's participation in Spacelab, the satellite gaze, and fin-de-siècle poetry and painting – the NYU Space Talks: History, Politics, Astroculture lecture series enters its eleventh season.

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#spacetalks #astroculture #spacehistory

Coming up on Tuesday, 16 Sept. 2025: a roundtable in honor of the great Martin Collins, featuring John Krige, Teasel Muir-Harmony, James Schwoch, James Merle Thomas, Heidi Voskuhl and myself.

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#spacetalks #astroculture #spacehistory #airandspacemuseum

Out now: 'Rocket Stars: Astrocultural Genealogies in the Global Space Age.' Seven contributions to this special BJHS issue chart the genesis, appeal and afterlives of technocelebrities in Sri Lanka, China, India, East and West Germany and Cuba.

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#astroculture #spacehistory

The NYU #spacetalks are always worth your while.

This season you can get a glimpse of of my work in North American #Astroculture, the tech broligarchy‘s fantasies of #multiplanetarity, & how Richard Powers‘ “Bewilderment“ may point toward a ‘terralectic‘ conception our relation to space. Tune in!

A roundtable in honor of Martin Collins, cosmic imaginaries in China, adaptation strategies in post-Soviet Russia and multiplanetarity in contemporary US astroculture – the NYU Space Talks lecture series goes into its tenth season.

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#spacetalks #astroculture #spacehistory

Every Q&A after one of my talks on #astroculture:

Third NYU Space Talk of the spring 2025 season coming up on 15 April: Laurence Guignard (Paris) on 'The Société Astronomique de France: A Global Popular Astronomy Network in the Belle Époque'

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#spacetalks #astroculture #spacehistory #astronomy

Second NYU Space Talk of the spring 2025 season coming up on 18 March : Robert Poole on 'Where Were They? The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the First Space Age'

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#spacetalks #astroculture #spacehistory #seti #aliens

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First NYU Space Talk of the spring 2025 season coming up on Tuesday, 18 February: Tonio Savina on China's space program.
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#astroculture #spacetalks #spacehistory #planetaryhistory

Image of Musk‘s Nazi salute as backdrop. Image in the front has a quote that reads: “What is worth noting, however, is how in the North American context this “astrofuturist” discourse i.e. the notion of outer space as a utopian space of conquest and growth as well as a space of human transcendence (Ganser, Kilgore), has been forced to the center of an American fascist ideology in which the dehumanization of trans people, of migrants and people of color, the slashing of reproductive rights of women, the destruction of our planetary environment and the exploration of outer space share a discursive foundation of untethered eugenics, capitalist-colonial exploitation and unleashed neoliberalism. In other words, “our manifest destiny in outer space” has taken its place next to “drill, baby, drill”, “your body my choice” and “woke is broke” as a rallying-cry of neoliberal fascist discourse that fuses market-driven policies and authoritarian ideologies.“

“our manifest destiny in outer space“

#Sneakpeek from the Writing Workshop

#CriticalFutures #Astroculture #AmericanStudies @hhu.de @transcript-verlag.bsky.social

Space exploration is not a magical quick fix for our planetary crises. Wherever we go, we are taking the #Anthropocene with us.

#Astroculture #AcademicSky

Space in China, early SETI, astronomy in turn-of-the century France, and a conversation among museum curators — the NYU Space Talks lecture series goes into its ninth season. The spring 2025 program starts on 02/18/25. www.space-talks.com

#astroculture #spacetalks #spacehistory #planetaryhistory

BTW: Over at X, space bros and tech-optimists are trying to cherry-pick their way into supporting the Trump administration & Musk‘s space program - without of course meaning to support all the bad stuff

Hard truth: if you cheer on the technology, you cheer on the ideology.

#Musk #astroculture

Final NYU Space Talk of the fall 2024 season coming up on 4 December 2024: NASA Chief Historian Brian Odom on 'New Directions in NASA History.'

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#spacetalks #astroculture #NASA #spacehistory