In dem nächsten Online-Dialog der ETROD Reihe am 23.03.2023 16:00-17:30 begrüßen wir Prof. Joshua Renovon der Binghamton University:
His talk „The Wrong Stuff: Orbital Space Debris as Problem and Possibility” will take us to the atmosphere miles above us, where hundreds of millions of tiny artificial particles and larger fragments are circling the planet, mostly undetected, moving as fast as speeding bullets. Orbital space debris—artificial objects and materials launched into orbit that no longer serve a purpose—has been accumulating in the sixty years since the Soviet Union sent Sputnik into space and transformed the stakes of the Cold War. In the talk Joshua reviews various attempts to witness and revalue space debris, which expose the historical and ongoing militarization of outer space. This is challenging for two reasons. First, it can be hard to link debris to permanent war preparation, because this connection has been actively foreclosed from public awareness by the US security state. Every space mission creates some debris, and many space missions had covert and classified goals that were not disclosed until later, and some never were. Moreover, it is hard even to see space debris, or know it when you've seen it, making reckoning with it at all a unique challenge.
Zur Vorbereitung der Sitzung und um eine fruchtbare Diskussion zu gewährleisten, empfehlen wir den Teilnehmenden die Lektüre des folgenden von Prof. Reno verfassten Forschungspapiers:
Reno, Joshua O. 2018. “Making Time With Amateur Astronomers and Orbital Space Debris: Attunement and the Matter of Temporality”. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology 5 (1):4-18. https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.33336.
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