2023
DOI: 10.1177/02637758231188289
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On cosmic injustices: Critical thinking, outer space, green values, and capitalist ideologies in a planetary age

Brad Tabas

Abstract: It may seem obvious that the interests of social justice should always align with environmental justice on a limited planet Earth. Unfortunately, this is far from the case in practice, even in the Anthropocene. This essay provides a new cognitive mapping of how ideologically charged discourse splits the interests of people and planet. It offers a pragmatic, semantic, and spatial analysis of how arguments for planetary protection can infelicitously turn into justifications for broadening social inequalities (an… Show more

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“…This should be heard as a historical, political, and cultural question about the state of the global Space Age, not as metaphysical or cosmological question regarding whether life comes from stardust. It is a question being asked in an astrographically localized way: as bearing on those extraterrestrial zones which, thanks to the extension of our technosphere, we have meaningful and ongoing contact and impact (Tabas, 2023). It is being asked in this way because it is relations between us and what lies beyond the planet that are most pertinent to thinking about ongoing debates regarding the status of the extraterrestrial as a common.…”
Section: History and The Commonmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This should be heard as a historical, political, and cultural question about the state of the global Space Age, not as metaphysical or cosmological question regarding whether life comes from stardust. It is a question being asked in an astrographically localized way: as bearing on those extraterrestrial zones which, thanks to the extension of our technosphere, we have meaningful and ongoing contact and impact (Tabas, 2023). It is being asked in this way because it is relations between us and what lies beyond the planet that are most pertinent to thinking about ongoing debates regarding the status of the extraterrestrial as a common.…”
Section: History and The Commonmentioning
confidence: 99%