June 2018
Cosmic communications and the anthropology of outer space
... with which they might make contact, they engage in knowledge production that is essentially under the purview of anthropology - that is, the study of culture. Using NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) website, a curious Earth-bound human...
October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
... becomes increasingly local. I do so through a realm of expertise as new as the commercial space race: outer space anthropology. And it is through this lens of expertise that I confront current and historic perceptions of human space exploration. Who...
August 2020
Revisiting the Drake Equation - a cultural addendum
..., imperialism, and analogue sites. Mandel is currently a writer at the American Institute of Physics and is pursuing a PhD in the anthropology of robotics, sexuality and space science.
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
... effect that prolonged exposure to an alien biosphere would have on the humans themselves. It is suggested that such anthropological questions are worthy of independent inquiry of themselves, and indeed space agencies have already started to conduct...
November 2017
Preserving Apollo’s lunar legacy
... including archaeological sites which are of Outstanding Universal Value from the historical, aesthetic, ethnological or anthropological points of view”. In turn, paragraph 49 of the Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage...
April 2020
Lunar artefact – a time capsule for the future
... outward to a (more graspable) 100-year time frame to consider the phased material change. Material vibrancy As an anthropological artefact, the MoonArk can be viewed and understood against a backdrop of culture and within the practice of creating...
