Klinger, Julie Michelle, 1983-. <br/><br/>
Space Is Not the Final Frontier 

 -  urbanNext,  Auguts 19, 2021. 
 - 2569 words. 
<br/><br/> Energy and sustainabilityEssayexpanding design practicesJulie Michelle KlingerNew Geographies 11: ExtraterrestrialPolitics and economics 
<br/><br/>Capitalism, Challenge, Collective Awareness, Cultural agitator, Culture, Earth, Environmental, Essay, Ethics, Expanding frontiers, Extraterrestrial, Geography, Geopolitics, Geospatial, History, Humanity, Land uses, Landscape, Mine, NASA, Political & Economic Approach, Politics, Pollution, Population, Power, Research, Resources, Scarcity, Science, Sustainability, Technology, the Moon, Transformation, Urban growth, USA, Waste generation<br/> 
<br/><br/>This essay by Julie Michelle Klinger is an excerpt of New Geographies 11: Extraterrestrial by Jeffrey S. Nesbit and Guy Trangoš. 
<br/><br/> The status of outer space as the final frontier is a cultural fetish. What a given culture fetishizes reveals the blind spots of power in specific times and places. That outer space should even be considered a frontier is a recent historical phenomenon that reflects the fusion of political power with techno-optimism, and it is far from final. But the temporal horizon of finality speaks to the desires felt among putative winners and losers alike under postatomic capitalism to transcend the brutalities of our age while preserving the status quo. 
<br/><br/><label>ISSN: </label>2575-5374 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Capitalism Energy and sustainability Politics and economics urban growth Cultural agitator