Contents
Introduction: Space Systems
1. Metasystem
2. Connection
3. Separation
4. Transhabitation
5. Solar Ecosystem
Conclusion: Future Space
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Valerie Olson is assistant professor of anthropology at the
University of California, Irvine.
"This captivating book tells the story of how 'outer space' is being reimagined and remade in the key of the environmental, as a cosmic ecosystem. Drawing on fieldwork with scientists at an undersea space-analog habitat, at NASA mission control, and at a center for space medicine, Valerie Olson artfully demonstrates how our human home planet is the scale and place from which a habitable cosmos is made and imagined."-Stefan Helmreich, author of Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond"In this seminal ethnographic study, Valerie Olson offers nothing less than a new anthropological object: the system-solar, living, artificial, conceptual-for showing how ‘future space’ is being made on the horizons of the contemporary ecopolitical moment. Traveling alongside her, we come into close contact with knowledge that unEarthed entities are uniquely placed to reveal, and with questions that closed and semi-open systems pose to timeworn discliplinary limits."-Debbora Battaglia, author of E.T. Culture: Anthropology in Outerspaces "Olson’s ethnography sheds light on the everyday practices that go into the creation not only of specific systems and environments, but also of a general way of thinking about relations."-CHOICE"Into the Extreme is a testament to Olson’s comprehensive and creative reading practices and skillful ability to identify and synthesize concerns stretching across a diverse set of fields, histories, and genres."-Anthropological Quarterly
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