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The genesis of attempts to appropriate outer space cultivated the conditions for technocratic order. Launch became the object of public imagination, feeding a neoliberal valorization of technology and imperialism.
Beebe 99 ~(Barton, specializes in the doctrinal, empirical, and cultural analysis of intellectual property law. He has been the Anne Urowsky Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School, a Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, and a Visiting Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. He has also taught courses at Hebrew University, Jerusalem; the Center for International Intellectual Property Studies at the Université de Strasbourg; the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center; the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China; and the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland) "Law's Empire and the Final Frontier: Legalizing the Future in the Early Corpus Juris Spatialis," 1999, pg. 1742-1744~ TDI
In an infamous phrase, President Nixon called Apollo 11 the "greatest week in
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knowledge. Indeed, for some, it meant the death of law.
NASA's rocket state encoded cybernetics as the American language of power. Technocracy ensures the intertwining of governance and the impetus for industry.
Beebe 99 ~(Barton, specializes in the doctrinal, empirical, and cultural analysis of intellectual property law. He has been the Anne Urowsky Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School, a Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, and a Visiting Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. He has also taught courses at Hebrew University, Jerusalem; the Center for International Intellectual Property Studies at the Université de Strasbourg; the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center; the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China; and the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland) "Law's Empire and the Final Frontier: Legalizing the Future in the Early Corpus Juris Spatialis," 1999, pg. 1745-1748~ TDI
The immediate effect of the Sputnik Crisis in America was a call for total mobilization
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"cheerful robot," 88 to the few who begrudged him his fame.
This culminates in the epoch of NewSpace wherein discourses of humanity's pre-ordained mission to colonize and profit from outer space imbricates the world into a paradigm of neoliberal qua charismatic accumulation.
Shammas and Holen 19 ~(Victor L, a sociologist working at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo; Tomas B., independent scholar in Oslo, Norway) "One giant leap for capitalistkind: private enterprise in outer space," 1-29-2019, pg. 3-5~ TDI
The 2010s may very well be remembered as the 'Age of NewSpace', the
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space, or 'astrosociologists' (Dickens and Ormrod, 2007a, 2007b).
Shammas and Holen 19 ~(Victor L, a sociologist working at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo; Tomas B., independent scholar in Oslo, Norway) "One giant leap for capitalistkind: private enterprise in outer space," 1-29-2019, pg. 5-6~ TDI
No longer terra nullius, space is now the new terra firma of capitalistkind:
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as a domain made accessible in legal, technical, and economic ways.
Otherwise, planetary colonialism and extinction from biosphere collapse and ecological breaking points are inevitable.
Shammas and Holen 19 ~(Victor L, a sociologist working at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo; Tomas B., independent scholar in Oslo, Norway) "One giant leap for capitalistkind: private enterprise in outer space," 1-29-2019, pg. 6-8~ TDI
As Earth's empty spaces are filled, as our planet comes to be shorn of
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capital itself that must outlive Earth—even into the darkness of space.
Siu and Chun 20 ~(Lok, is a cultural anthropologist and Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley; Claire, is a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Ethnic Studies) "Yellow Peril and Techno-orientalism in the Time of Covid-19: Racialized Contagion, Scientific Espionage, and Techno-Economic Warfare," October 2020, pg. 425-427~ TDI
The term yellow peril emerged in the late nineteenth century in response to Japan's arrival
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"Chinese as contagion" and its connection to anti-Asian aggression.
Predictions fueled by realist accounts of space foreign policy as a battlefield of rational self-interest are wrong and neoliberal – prefer a Marxist interpretation.
Henry 18 ~(Edward C., MA student at University of Massachusetts Boston) "The United States of Sol: Privatization as a Tool of American Hegemony in the Solar System," 8-31-2018, pg. 54-61~ TDI
Marxists argue behavior on the international level is not a natural process, instead it
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(at the expense of human ownership) through privatization outer space exploration.
Reject 21st century Red Scares – neoliberalism undergirds a massive network of bunk scholars, organizations, and defense contractors who spin false narratives of revisionism and idealize liberal hegemony for profit
Johnson-Freese 17 ~(Joan, Professor and chair of space science and technology @ Naval War College) Space Warfare in the 21st Century, Routledge, 2017, ISBN 978131552917~ TDI
The industrial side of the military–industrial complex is comprised of corporations with common
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program lives on and is a testament to the persistence of its supporters.