a radical new space philosophy based in aesthetics, ecology, and science.

Barry Vacker in Explosion of Awareness

Feb 16, 2019

“Naked Into the Cosmos” — Space Exploration and the 50th Anniversary of “Future Shock” by Alvin Toffler

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Barry Vacker in Explosion of Awareness

Jul 24, 2018

NASA’s Icon of Human Narcissism: The 50th Anniversary of Earthrise and What It Means for the 21st Century

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Barry Vacker in Explosion of Awareness

Nov 25, 2017

“Explosion of Awareness”—Kubrick, Nietzsche, Hubble, and the Starting Point for a 21st Century Space Philosophy

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Barry Vacker in Explosion of Awareness

Nov 19, 2017

Against Terraforming Mars, Strip-Mining the Moon, and Militarizing Outer Space

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Barry Vacker in Explosion of Awareness

May 9, 2017

Honoring the 50th Anniversary of 2001: The Monolith and Hope for the Human Species

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Barry Vacker in Explosion of Awareness

Mar 4, 2017

Interstellar’s Vision of Cosmic Hope

Love, science, courage, the universe, the sublime—these are key concepts that convey…

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Barry Vacker in Explosion of Awareness

Jan 20, 2017

Nihilism and the Sublime in the Five Greatest Space Films

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Barry Vacker in Explosion of Awareness

Jan 14, 2017

Gargantua, the Tesseract, and Existential Meanings in Interstellar

Stars, Dirt, and the Cosmic Sublime

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Explosion of Awareness

Illustrated essays presenting a new space philosophy for the 21st Century. Inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey with excerpts from Barry Vacker's epic book "Specter of the Monolith." Though the essays date from 2017, the "Explosion of Awareness" page was started in July, 2018.

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