🔮 After postmodernity; space regulation; DeSci, exoplanets++ #387

Hi,

Azeem is away on a trip (you can follow along on his Instagram), so we have prepared a slightly different Sunday edition for you: we selected three essays that historicise the modern era and its technologies; the sense of imminence we often ingrain in our Near Future curation is replaced by a multi-decade kaleidoscopic viewing of our past and the future.

That’s not all: we invited EV member Jocelynn Pearl to break down the state of decentralised science, and EV member Marshall Kirkpatrick has curated the Dept of our climate future. Morsels are there, as usual, so grab a cup of coffee and enjoy today’s edition!

Marija

Dept of kaleidoscope

⚛️ “The atom, far more than just a symbol of nuclear power, came to stand in for all of science, and for the future itself,” writes Dr. Becky Alexis Martin in an essay about post-WW2 efforts to rally the US public behind nuclear technology development:

Atoms for Peace initiatives served to naturalize the atom by making it useful and exciting. For exa…