IS NO MAN’S SKY AN ACCIDENTAL COLONIALIST UTOPIA?
A few weeks ago I was fortunate enough to hear a paper delivered by the philosopher Thom van Dooren (co-authored with the human geographer and social theorist Matthew Kearnes) on the various cultural, political, and scientific entanglements—and ethical quandaries—associated with off-earth mining.[1] The central thrust of their paper seemed to be stressing the various senses in…