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First NYU Space Talk of season XI coming up on 17 February 2026: anthropologist Valerie A. Olson (UC Irvine) on contemporary astropreneurs

For details and to register ➔ space.talks.com
#spacetalks #astroculture #spacehistory #elonmusk
February 10, 2026 at 8:06 AM
hsozkult.bsky.social
Vorl: NYU Space Talks: History, Politics, Astroculture

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-160030

New York City, 17.02.2026-12.05.2026, Alexander C.T. Geppert NYU Space Talks: History, Politics, Astroculture
www.hsozkult.de
January 23, 2026 at 2:56 PM
actgeppert.bsky.social
Astropreneurs, Italy's participation in Spacelab, the satellite gaze, and fin-de-siècle poetry and painting – the NYU Space Talks: History, Politics, Astroculture lecture series enters its eleventh season.

For details and to register, ➡️ www.space-talks.com 🚀
#spacetalks #astroculture #spacehistory
January 21, 2026 at 1:41 PM
buddhistyou.bsky.social
Did Buddha grasp the structure of the universe long before modern astronomy? Professor Ben Van Overmeire at Duke Kunshun University is studying the nexus of Buddhist studies, intellectual history and astroculture.
How a Buddhist monk reshaped our imagination of outer space - News | Duke Kunshan University
When a Buddhist monk claimed the Buddha understood the solar system 2,500 years before telescopes, most people would close the book and move on.
news.dukekunshan.edu.cn
December 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
jenstemmen.bsky.social
Tomorrow on the internet
Flyer for the NYU Space Talks Lecture Series. Tomorrow’s talk: Jens Temmen (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt): „‚New Planet, Dad. Please!‘ Multiplanetarity and Terralectics in Contemporary North American Astroculture.“
December 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
actgeppert.bsky.social
Coming up on Tuesday, 16 Sept. 2025: a roundtable in honor of the great Martin Collins, featuring John Krige, Teasel Muir-Harmony, James Schwoch, James Merle Thomas, Heidi Voskuhl and myself.

For details and to register ➔ space.talks.com
#spacetalks #astroculture #spacehistory #airandspacemuseum
September 14, 2025 at 6:58 AM
mrjeffknox.bsky.social
James Miller, “Seeing the Future of Civilization in the Skies of Quarouble: UFO Encounters and the Problem of Empire in Postwar France,” in Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 245–264;
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Seeing the Future of Civilization in the Skies of Quarouble: UFO Encounters and the Problem of Empire in Postwar France
On 10 September 1954, a young metalworker named Marius Dewilde (1921–1996) stepped outside the abandoned railway station house he occupied in Quarouble, France, and encountered an alien world. E...
link.springer.com
September 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
actgeppert.bsky.social
Out now: 'Rocket Stars: Astrocultural Genealogies in the Global Space Age.' Seven contributions to this special BJHS issue chart the genesis, appeal and afterlives of technocelebrities in Sri Lanka, China, India, East and West Germany and Cuba.

➡️ tinyurl.com/2p5aekmu

#astroculture #spacehistory
September 9, 2025 at 6:44 AM
hsozkult.bsky.social
Vorl: NYU Space Talks: History, Politics, Astroculture

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-157081

New York City, 16.09.2025-02.12.2025, Alexander C.T. Geppert
www.hsozkult.de
August 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
jenstemmen.bsky.social
The NYU #spacetalks are always worth your while.

This season you can get a glimpse of of my work in North American #Astroculture, the tech broligarchy‘s fantasies of #multiplanetarity, & how Richard Powers‘ “Bewilderment“ may point toward a ‘terralectic‘ conception our relation to space. Tune in!
actgeppert.bsky.social Alexander C.T. Geppert @actgeppert.bsky.social · Jul 17
A roundtable in honor of Martin Collins, cosmic imaginaries in China, adaptation strategies in post-Soviet Russia and multiplanetarity in contemporary US astroculture – the NYU Space Talks lecture series goes into its tenth season.

➡️ www.space-talks.com 🚀

#spacetalks #astroculture #spacehistory
July 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
actgeppert.bsky.social
A roundtable in honor of Martin Collins, cosmic imaginaries in China, adaptation strategies in post-Soviet Russia and multiplanetarity in contemporary US astroculture – the NYU Space Talks lecture series goes into its tenth season.

➡️ www.space-talks.com 🚀

#spacetalks #astroculture #spacehistory
July 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
jenstemmen.bsky.social
Every Q&A after one of my talks on #astroculture:
Interview snippet between Douthat and Thiel, saying: Thiel: Yeah, but what does Mars mean? Douthat: What does Mars mean?
June 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
mrjeffknox.bsky.social
Pierre Lagrange, "The Ghost in the Machine. How Sociology Tried to Explain (Away) American Flying Saucers and European Ghost Rockets, 1946-1947," in Imagining Outer Space, European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century, New York, Macmillan, 2012, pp. 224-244;
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) A Ghost in the Machine: How Sociology Tried to Explain (Away) American Flying Saucers and European Ghost Rockets, 1946–1947
PDF | In 1947, ‘flying saucers’ emerged as a subject of public, and sometimes scientific, controversy (Figure 12.1). Since that time, a number of... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...
www.researchgate.net
June 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
jenstemmen.bsky.social
I am teaching a class on “North American Astroculture“ this term, and there we discuss that the US context, with is foundational myth of an expansionist telos of human civilization spearheaded by the US, is particularly fertile ground for the tech bros‘ technoliberal fantasies of tech-tree progress.
bildoperationen.bsky.social Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · May 12
«Something like Civilization is a lot of what's going on here as well—the idea of a tech tree that's predefined by the game, and you just choose how quickly you're going to advance along that tree. That's just not how anything in human history has ever worked. It's a dangerous belief.»
jeffvandermeer.bsky.social Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · May 10
No, we are not going to live on other planets. Bullshit artists like Musk might as well be the leaders of death cults. arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
May 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
jenstemmen.bsky.social
Das @hhu.de MAGAZIN hat einen kleinen Artikel zu meiner Forschung zu astroculture geschrieben.

Darin auch ein Hinweis auf die Ausstellung „Ein Unendlich Dunkles Erbe“ im Haus der Uni, Düsseldorf am 25. April 2025:

www.hdu.hhu.de/programm/ein...

www.hhu.de/magazin

@teambuergeruni.bsky.social
Cover des HHU MAGAZIN mit dem Titel „Der Weltraum - eine unendliche Projektionsfläche.“ Erste Seite des Artikels, mit folgendem Überschriften-Absatz: „Rocket Science nennt man das, was wirklich kompliziert ist. Weltraumforschung ist ganz sicher Raketenwissenschaft. Höchst kompliziert und voraussetzungsvoll. Und zwar gleich in mehrfacher Hinsicht, wie Dr. Jens Temmen klarmacht. Denn der Mitarbeiter am Institut für Amerikanistik beschäftigt sich mit den kulturellen Voraussetzungen und literarischen Verhandlungen von Weltraumforschung.“ Poster „Ein Unendlich Dunkles Erbe: die faschistischen Wurzeln der modernen Weltraumforschung“ im Haus der Universität Düsseldorf, 25. April 2025.
April 8, 2025 at 7:46 AM
actgeppert.bsky.social
Third NYU Space Talk of the spring 2025 season coming up on 15 April: Laurence Guignard (Paris) on 'The Société Astronomique de France: A Global Popular Astronomy Network in the Belle Époque'

For details and to register ➔ space.talks.com
#spacetalks #astroculture #spacehistory #astronomy
April 8, 2025 at 5:54 AM
actgeppert.bsky.social
Second NYU Space Talk of the spring 2025 season coming up on 18 March : Robert Poole on 'Where Were They? The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the First Space Age'

For details and to register ➔ space.talks.com
#spacetalks #astroculture #spacehistory #seti #aliens
March 10, 2025 at 3:26 AM
actgeppert.bsky.social
‪Alexander C.T. Geppert‬ ‪@actgeppert.bsky.social‬

First NYU Space Talk of the spring 2025 season coming up on Tuesday, 18 February: Tonio Savina on China's space program.
See www.space-talks.com for details and to RSVP

#astroculture #spacetalks #spacehistory #planetaryhistory
February 12, 2025 at 6:35 AM
shulyrose.com
a fascinating thread on the persian origin of the word "Behenian" (which we see all the time in astroculture)

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andarzgar.bsky.social Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · Feb 10
In his Occulta De Philosophia, the 16th century German occultist, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, outlines a list of fifteen fixed stars to which he refers as the (pl.) "Behenii" or (sing.) "Behenius" stars.
February 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
jenstemmen.bsky.social
“our manifest destiny in outer space“

#Sneakpeek from the Writing Workshop

#CriticalFutures #Astroculture #AmericanStudies @hhu.de @transcript-verlag.bsky.social
Image of Musk‘s Nazi salute as backdrop. Image in the front has a quote that reads: “What is worth noting, however, is how in the North American context this “astrofuturist” discourse i.e. the notion of outer space as a utopian space of conquest and growth as well as a space of human transcendence (Ganser, Kilgore), has been forced to the center of an American fascist ideology in which the dehumanization of trans people, of migrants and people of color, the slashing of reproductive rights of women, the destruction of our planetary environment and the exploration of outer space share a discursive foundation of untethered eugenics, capitalist-colonial exploitation and unleashed neoliberalism. In other words, “our manifest destiny in outer space” has taken its place next to “drill, baby, drill”, “your body my choice” and “woke is broke” as a rallying-cry of neoliberal fascist discourse that fuses market-driven policies and authoritarian ideologies.“
February 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
hsozkult.bsky.social
Vorl: NYU Space Talks: History, Politics, Astroculture

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-152829

New York City, 18.02.2025-20.05.2025, Alexander C.T. Geppert; New York University / NYU Shanghai
NYU Space Talks: History, Politics, Astroculture
www.hsozkult.de
January 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
jenstemmen.bsky.social
Space exploration is not a magical quick fix for our planetary crises. Wherever we go, we are taking the #Anthropocene with us.

#Astroculture #AcademicSky
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jan 15
Concerned that the new space race could exacerbate space debris and expand tourism in orbit and beyond, the World Monuments Fund added the moon to its 2025 list of endangered sites.
World Monuments Fund Puts Moon on List of At-Risk Sites
The organization said that more than 90 important sites on the moon could risk destruction if space tourism is left unregulated.
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Astroculture is space agriculture. Closed-loop life support systems are essential for the human exploration of space.
www.21stcentech.com/astroculture...
Astroculture – There’s A Word I Had Never Heard Before When Talking About Growing Things
A self-sustaining ecosystem requires a bio-regenerative life support system (BLSS) where humans can thrive off the Earth.
www.21stcentech.com
January 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
actgeppert.bsky.social
Space in China, early SETI, astronomy in turn-of-the century France, and a conversation among museum curators — the NYU Space Talks lecture series goes into its ninth season. The spring 2025 program starts on 02/18/25. www.space-talks.com

#astroculture #spacetalks #spacehistory #planetaryhistory
January 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Brilliant I wanted to be an astronaut when I was 12, bit I did horticulture, but dis my degree thesis on astroculture to still include a space theme
December 6, 2024 at 10:40 PM