Conference 2012 – Envisioning Limits: Outer Space and the End of Utopia | The British Society for the History of Science (BSHS)

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Envisioning Limits: Outer Space and the End of Utopia
International Conference
Berlin, 19-21 April 2012   If space exploration is understood as not just one of the twentieth century’s most prestigious feats of engineering, but also a central theme in period visions of the future and utopias, then how might we understand the transition from the 1960s to the 1970s, with its emphasis on reduced possibilities and limitations to progress? The conference aims to shift the focus away from explanations of
transition framed within the Cold War context and provide more nuanced narratives: from the familiar struggle between two superpowers,
namely the USA and the former USSR, to distinctly West-European perspectives, and from political to socio-cultural dimensions of the
Space Age. [...]
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