Future spaces of power the cultural politics of digital and outer spaces / edited by Caroline Alphin, E. Leigh McKagen, Shelby E. Ward.

Other author Alphin, Caroline (Caroline G.
Other author McKagen, E. Leigh
Other author Ward, Shelby E.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.
Descriptionvi, 209 pages 23 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subjects
Space--Social aspects.
Outer space--Exploration. --Social aspects.

SeriesCritical futures
Critical futures http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/53ee1231-ad57-9515-44e0-c5078ca3ef9e
Contents Introduction: Future Spaces of Power / Caroline Alphin, E. Leigh McKagen, Shelby E. Ward -- Part 1: Outer Spaces.-- (Re)Creating Home and Empire in Contemporary Star Trek / E. Leigh McKagen -- Disimagination and Corporate Futurity: The Neoliberal Enclosure of Outer Space / Craig Henry Jones -- From the Belt to Across the Sol: Lessons from The Expanse for Reforming the Outer Space Treaty / Troy Thurman -- Cosmic Dismemberment: Decolonizing Space Exploration In Cuban Speculative Fiction / Lu Han -- The Pedagogy of Alien Response Movies: Limitations in liberal international politics / Shelby E. Ward -- Part 2: Digital Spaces. The Biopolitics of Modern Social Darwinism: A Critique of Neo-reactionism and Its Anti-Democratic Spaces / Caroline Alphin -- You Reap What You Sow: Affect, Neoliberal Techno-Utopias, and Community Building in Stardew Valley / Deanna Holroyd and Holly Parker -- Telehealth Publics: Networked Milieus of Care Production / Shaun Respess -- Kitot'sattook: Indigitalized Spaces, Time Travel and Kinship Computing Interconnection / Patricia May-Derbyshire
Abstract Future Spaces of Power explores political, cultural, and societal narratives of future space(s) on a global scale to complicate the cultural logic of systemic futures that exist outside the boundaries of dominant political imaginaries. Contributors critically engage with alternative visions found in literature, film, and other cultural artifacts that encourage us to either live with or escape from the systemic conditions of neoliberalism and late capitalism and consider what these alternative visions might do - or fail to do - in combating anti-democratic futures, environmental degradation, and new forms of imperialism. Through these analyses, the volume collectively argues that anti-postmodern and postmodern readings of future spaces overlook the everyday lived experiences of certain bodies - including chronic health problems, effects from systemic racism, and other experiences of insecurity, fear, and death in the face of institutionalized violence - by disregarding differential experiences of time within different spatial contexts. Contributors suggest that critiques of narratives occurring within and about virtual and metaspaces, artificial intelligence, space exploration, and even the colonization of outer space can provide critical insights concerning global futures and our perceptions of space and time, especially as they inform how we should live in the present amid environmental destruction, information capitalism, neoliberalism, and the remaining infrastructures of colonialism. Ultimately, this book interrogates how a variety of media shape and inform our understanding and assumptions about conceptualizations of future space(s) as it demonstrates how governmentality eliminates and regulates surplus bodies - both overtly and covertly - through the technological, spatial, discursive, and temporal management of space. -- Publisher website 20260120
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2025022936
ISBN9781666957587
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