Is there such a thing as a capitalist eschatology?
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2022

This short communication presents preliminary notes about how to study the role of eschatology in the contemporary economy, focusing specifically on space-colonizing ambitions of US entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk. It is suggested that the proposed research agenda focuses on three problematics, relating to immediacy, investment, and ideology. As such, the text proposes to study the making of alternative futures by situating imaginaries of humanity becoming a multiplanetary species in the present realities of political economy.

multi-planetary species

Elon Musk

New space

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Författare

Karl Palmås

Chalmers, Teknikens ekonomi och organisation, Science, Technology and Society

Kristoffer Ekberg

Chalmers, Teknikens ekonomi och organisation, Science, Technology and Society

Anna Åberg

Chalmers, Teknikens ekonomi och organisation, Science, Technology and Society

Futures

0016-3287 (ISSN)

Vol. 136 102901

Drivkrafter

Hållbar utveckling

Ämneskategorier

Sociologi

Teknikhistoria

Kulturgeografi

DOI

10.1016/j.futures.2022.102901

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2022-01-20