Marcia Bjorerud, Timefulness (Princeton University Press, 2018), 16.
It’s pertinent to note here that the construction industry—meaning architecture—is responsible for 30% of the extraction of natural resources globally, and therefore intimately entwined with these consequences.
D. Barrie Johnson, Barry M. Grail, and Kevin B. Hallberg, A New Direction for Biomining: Extraction of Metals by Reductive Dissolution of Oxidized Ores, Minerals 3, no. 1 (2013): 49–58.
In 2014 the NASA Advisory Council reported that “The mismatch between NASA’s aspirations for human spaceflight and its budget for human spaceflight is the most serious problem facing the Agency.” NASA Advisory Council Recommendation, “Mismatch Between NASA's Aspirations for Human Space Flight and Its Budget, 2014-02-01 (Council-01),” February 1, 2014, ➝.
C. S. Cockell, R. Santomartino, K. Finster, et al., “Space station biomining experiment demonstrates rare earth element extraction in microgravity and Mars gravity,” Nature Communications 11, no. 5523 (2020).
Sophia Roosth, “Life, Not Itself: Inanimacy and the Limits of Biology,” Grey Room 57 (October 2014): 56–81.
Julie Klinger, Rare Earth Frontiers (Cornell University Press, 2017).
“NASA Names Companies to Develop Human Landers for Artemis Moon Missions,” NASA, April 30, 2020, ➝.
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Friction: an Ethnography of Global Connection (Princeton University Press, 2002).
Julie Klinger, Rare Earth Frontiers (Cornell University Press, 2017).
The Spurring Private Aerospace Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship (SPACE) Act of 2015, now often referred to as the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act.
Gabriel Gatehouse, “The crypto bros who dream of crowdfunding a new country,” BBC, September 20, 2024, ➝.
Hito Steyerl, “In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment On The Vertical Perspective,” e-flux journal 24, 2011, ➝.
Steyerl, along with cartographic historians, infers that this domineering view over Earth seeps into human behaviors and the relationship that we have to the planet and the beings upon it.