Multiplanetary Futures

‘Multiplanetary Futures’? 2 day workshop, 31 May – 1 June at @LancasterUni

[Bronislaw Szerszynski @szerszynski]

Craig Jones now talking about Yoon Ha Lee's wonderful 'Vector alphabet of interstellar travel' as an example of ethnofuturism and multiple multiplanetary futures. Check it out. https://t.co/PcR1GlBQFe #multiplanetaryfutures @multiplanetary1

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Craig Jones PhD student in @LancsUniLEC discusses extraterrestrial extraction and ethnofuturism. #asteroidmining

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.@LauraPremack talking about Chico Xavier’s Nosso Lar - The Astral City - space-age spiritism in Brazil. https://t.co/sYrDAzuGC2 #multiplanetaryfutures @multiplanetary1

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@szerszynski proposes four ways to think about the multi in multiplanetarity: numerical, qualitative, internal, relational differences

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Valentina Marcheselli reading the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence as a way of affirming the long-term future of our own technological civilisation. #seti #multiplanetaryfutures @multiplanetary1

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@szerszynski takes the workshop on a geophilosophical turn, asking how we can think through not only about the Earth.

[Oliver Morton @Eaterofsun]

Loved his notion of the #cosmologicalbedroom (cf 2001, Interstellar) https://t.co/qYFy5uA8IN

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Valentina Marcheselli from @EdinburghUni addresses the history and promises of #SETI at day 2 of @multiplanetary1 workshop at @LancasterUni @social_futures @SociologyLancs @cemore4mobs

[Bronislaw Szerszynski @szerszynski]

.@lmesseri Can we find inspiration in multiplicities? If there are multiple ways of rendering exoplanets, there are multiple possible multiplanetary futures. #multiplanetaryfutures @multiplanetary1

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@lmesseri reflects on interstellar travel posters as images of the future yet how they emulate the style of posters of the 1930s. Possible multiplanetary futures saturated with nostalgia.

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Lisa Messeri (@lmesseri) starts her plenary on Multiplanetary Pasts and Presents: The View from Anthropology #multiplanetaryfutures @multiplanetary1

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The Apollo programme hadn't anticipated the significance of looking back at the Earth - how it can trigger the 'overview effect' https://t.co/zcUXknVhpl #multiplanetaryfutures @multiplanetary1

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@SciFiBaker explores the fascinating link between the bedroom as a domestic space and fictional journeys into outer space... voyages out and voyages home and out again

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@sci-fi Baker says that narratives of return are a recurring motif of outer space fictions, a mythic idea which can be traced to The Odyssey.

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@SciFiBaker is now on talking about the voyage home: interplanetary travel in NASA fictions

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David Jeevendrampillai discusses Frank White’s notion of the #overview effect in relation to classic Blue Marble and Earthrise images - a way to build human empathy?

[Bronislaw Szerszynski @szerszynski]

Rob La Frenais kicking us off with A Future History of the Moon: From Moon Village to Republic of the Moon #multiplanetaryfutures @multiplanetary1

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@TuttonRichard talking about Silicon Valley's outer space utopias and their critics. #multiplanetaryfutures @multiplanetary1

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.@TuttonRichard - A third narrative of multiplanetarity - Elon Musk sees settling Mars as a hedge, life insurance, a back-up drive for the biosphere #multiplanetaryfutures @multiplanetary1

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Katarina Damjanov from @uwanews discussing planetary landers and probes as precursors of human migration in outer space.