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Spacecraft de Prof. Timothy Morton

Spacecraft: Object Lessons

Autor Prof. Timothy Morton
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 oct 2021
Science fiction is filled with spacecraft. On Earth, actual rockets explode over Texas while others make their way to Mars. But what are spacecraft, and just what can they teach us about imagination, ecology, democracy, and the nature of objects? Why do certain spacecraft stand out in popular culture?

If ever there were a spacecraft that could be detached from its context, sold as toys, turned into Disney rides, parodied, and flit around in everyone's head-the Millennium Falcon would be it. Springing from this infamous Star Wars vehicle, Spacecraft takes readers on an intergalactic journey through science fiction and speculative philosophy, revealing real-world political and ecological lessons along the way. In this book Timothy Morton shows how spacecraft are never mere flights of fancy.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501375804
ISBN-10: 1501375806
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 120 x 164 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Object Lessons

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Introduction: Ships and Craft
1. Garbage
2. Winnings
3. Luck
4. Lounge
5. Hyperspace
6. Anyone
Index

Recenzii

As I read Morton's account of his childhood engagement with space flight, I thought of my own, when my personal imaginary met world history, though I certainly didn't think in those terms at the time. In pursuing Morton's childhood, I'm not attempting to shoehorn Spacecraft into old-fashioned biographical criticism whereby one seeks to explain a text by finding its secrets in the author's autobiography. It's part of the story he's telling, one common to many children whose imagination has been fired with visions of space travel. It's a story born of a specific cultural imaginary common among children of the last decades of the previous century . Spacecraft, then, is a vehicle in which Morton meditates on futurality. The Millennium Falcon, along with hyperspace, is at the center of this meditation.
Morton is the punk rock sci-fi geek artist philosopher of Now. In prose as precise and freewheeling as one of their flights-of-fancy spacecraft, this book takes us on a journey of the mind through the hyperspace of pop-culture and high thought, because It Is All Connected Can't You See? I started reading this and lost a day but gained a light year.
This is a brilliantly provoking book about why spacecraft are not at all the same as spaceships, and how imaginary objects can transform our thinking. Morton offers an exuberant, acute, compact, and luminously uplifting guide to the ways in which human society might become a whole lot more progressive in the coming centuries.