Multiplanetary Imaginaries and Utopia The Case of Mars One

• Published in: Science, technology, & human values Vol. 43; no. 3; pp. 518 - 539
• Main Author: Tutton, Richard
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE 01.05.2018; SAGE Publications
• Subjects: alternative life forms; other; space/place/scale dynamics; futures

The prospect of human societies being made anew on other planets is a powerful recurring theme in popular culture and speculative technoscience. I explore what Science and Technology Studies (STS) offers to analyzing how the future is made and contested in present-day endeavors to establish humans a...