{"product_id":"9783031185007","title":"Capital and the Cosmos : War, Society and the Quest for Profit (1st ed. 2022. 2023. xi, 158 S. XI, 158 p. 8 illus. 210 mm)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book offers a new understanding of society's relations with the cosmos. Entrepreneurs such as Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk receive a great deal of publicity, but offer unlikely and implausible visions of space tourism for the general public.  Meanwhile, asteroids are seen as 'rare materials' which will be extracted and used to produce untold riches for earthbound citizens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe reality is rather different.  First, there is no evidence that owners of capital are attempting to extract 'rare' materials in the cosmos. The costs would be 'out of this world'.  But capital, not governments, is determining how outer space should be used.  Capital's investments in aerospace companies are actively determining forms of military interventions and the equipment used.  And satellite television pumps out forms of culture aimed at a global audience.  But these are being ignored and subverted by, for example, indigenous peoples.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn short, this book setsout a new understanding of our relations with the cosmos. The forces of capital are certainly powerful but at the same time they are being challenged, subverted and even overturned.\u003c\/p\u003e 1. The Cosmos: Capitalism's Outside?-  2. Libertarianism, Fantasy and Cosmic Capitalism.- 3. Individualism, Narcissism and the Cosmos.- 4. Circuits of Capital, Circuits of Earth.- 5. Producing Spacecraft.- 6. The Body and the Cosmos.- 7.  A Cosmic Risk Society?- 8. Satellites, War and Capital Accumulation.- 9. Cosmic Capitalism and Space Law.- 10. Future Work.- 11. Prefigurative Politics: Towards a Cosmic Socialism? \u003cp\u003ePeter Dickens teaches at the Departments of Sociology at Brighton, Cambridge and Lancaster Universities, UK.  He is the co-author of \u003ci\u003eCosmic Society \u003c\/i\u003e(2007) and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Palgrave Handbook of Society, Culture and Outer Space \u003c\/i\u003e(Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHis book \u003ci\u003eSociety and Nature: Changing Our Environment, Changing Ourselves\u003c\/i\u003e (2006) was given an Outstanding Publication Award by the American Sociological Association.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SPRINGER, BERLIN; SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING;","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48848149348587,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":60.41,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9783031185007","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}