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Imagining Outer Space

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    Chapter 1 European Astrofuturism, Cosmic Provincialism: Historicizing the Space Age
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    Chapter 2 Space, Time and Aliens: The Role of Imagination in Outer Space
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    Chapter 3 Heaven on Earth: Tunguska, 30 June 1908
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    Chapter 4 Imagining Inorganic Life: Crystalline Aliens in Science and Fiction
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    Chapter 5 Projecting Landscapes of the Human Mind onto Another World: Changing Faces of an Imaginary Mars
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    Chapter 6 ‘Smash the Myth of the Fascist Rocket Baron’: East German Attacks on Wernher von Braun in the 1960s
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    Chapter 7 Transcendence of Gravity: Arthur C. Clarke and the Apocalypse of Weightlessness
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    Chapter 8 Per Media Ad Astra? Outer Space in West Germany’s Media, 1957–87
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    Chapter 9 Balloons on the Moon: Visions of Space Travel in Francophone Comic Strips
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    Chapter 10 A Stumble in the Dark: Contextualizing Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s Space: 1999
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    Chapter 11 Life as We Don’t Yet Know It: An Anthropologist’s First Contact with the Science of ‘Weird Life’
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    Chapter 12 A Ghost in the Machine: How Sociology Tried to Explain (Away) American Flying Saucers and European Ghost Rockets, 1946–47
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    Chapter 13 Seeing the Future of Civilization in the Skies of Quarouble: UFO Encounters and the Problem of Empire in Postwar France
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    Chapter 14 Self-Reproducing Automata and the Impossibility of SETI
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    Chapter 15 Inscribing Scientific Knowledge: Interstellar Communication, NASA’s Pioneer Plaque and Contact with Cultures of the Imagination, 1971–72
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    Chapter 16 Alien Spotting: Damien Hirst’s Beagle 2 Mars Lander Calibration Target and the Exploitation of Outer Space
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    Chapter 17 Look Up! Art in the Age of Orbitization
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Chapter title
A Ghost in the Machine: How Sociology Tried to Explain (Away) American Flying Saucers and European Ghost Rockets, 1946–47
Chapter number 12
Book title
Imagining Outer Space
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan, London, January 2018
DOI 10.1057/978-1-349-95339-4_12
Book ISBNs
978-1-349-95338-7, 978-1-349-95339-4
Authors

Pierre Lagrange

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Unknown 1 100%

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Professor > Associate Professor 1 100%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 1 100%

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