Space Feminisms: People, Planets, Power (Biotechne: Interthinking Art, Science and Design) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1350346322 ISBN 13: 9781350346321

Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts (UK), 2024

Synopsis

This book examines the history and future of space as a site of social justice and gender equality.
Rather than simply a platform for imagining the future, it cultivates alternative modes of inquiry around space as a possible speculative platform for social and cultural enquiry. Bringing together essayistic reflections, artworks, and interviews with space scientists, engineers, and astronauts past and present, Space Feminisms inspects the transformation of terrestrially held notions of gender, race, class, and ableism as they migrate to the extraterrestrial, whilst drawing new connections between feminist thought and extraterrestrial power structures.

Space Feminisms makes a radical enquiry into how earthly power structures are already expanding into our skies, facilitating a collaborative and interdisciplinary platform for scholars, artists, and designers to imagine radical constructions of human futures beyond Earth. At the intersection of scientific, cultural, social, and artistic speculations, the book unites leading scholars, scientists, artists, and designers to develop innovative tactics and disruptive participations to create generative, alternative, and radical futures of and in space.

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About the Author

Marie-Pier Boucher is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology, University of Toronto, Canada. She is co-editor of Being Material (2019), Heteropolis (2013), and Adaptive Actions Madrid (2010).

Claire Webb is a Fellow at the Berggruen Institute and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Annick Bureaud is an art critic, curator and Director of Leonardo/Olats, Paris, France.

Nahum Romero is the founder of the Berlin-based KOSMICA Institute, and a Faculty member at the International Space University in France and at the transnational University of the Underground.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts (UK)
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350346322
• ISBN 13: 9781350346321
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Marie-Pier Boucher, Claire Webb, Nahum, Annick Bureaud