This working group will explore the challenges and pressing concerns that the resurgent interest in space exploration, extraterrestrial mining, and expansionism beyond Earth poses for humankind. Do our current forms of governance and institutions address these unprecedented concerns of the near future? We will draw on the mutually constitutive relation between technological innovation and speculative thought to contend with topics such as the problem of orbital debris, space tourism, potential formations of affluent colonies, and neo-settler colonialism. 

This first meeting of the working group will be on the topic of astrocapitalism. Faculty members and Ph.D. students should contact the organizers for further details and reading materials (hallmere@usc.edu and klik@usc.edu) 

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