After Spaceship Earth: Art, Techno-Utopia, and Other Science Fictions by Diaz, Eva

After Spaceship Earth: Art, Techno-Utopia, and Other Science Fictions

An expansive look at the contemporary artists confronting, challenging, and reimagining R. Buckminster Fuller's techno-utopianism to envision...
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Author: Eva Diaz
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After Spaceship Earth: Art, Techno-Utopia, and Other Science Fictions by Diaz, Eva

After Spaceship Earth: Art, Techno-Utopia, and Other Science Fictions

$140.30

After Spaceship Earth: Art, Techno-Utopia, and Other Science Fictions

$140.30
Author: Eva Diaz
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
An expansive look at the contemporary artists confronting, challenging, and reimagining R. Buckminster Fuller's techno-utopianism to envision sustainable futures

Architect and designer R. Buckminster Fuller's (1895-1983) concept of "Spaceship Earth," one of the most powerful metaphors of the twentieth century, imagines our planet as a monumental vehicle sustained by the interdependence of human technologies and natural ecologies. In this book, Eva Díaz explores that metaphor through the work of contemporary artists from around the world who grapple with Fuller's project to promote the equitable distribution of global assets through design, and with the technocratic euphoria of his era.

Beginning with a focus on Fuller's iconic geodesic dome design and moving to the extraplanetary implications of his ideas, Díaz illuminates how artists including John Akomfrah, Mary Mattingly, Trevor Paglen, Jacolby Satterwhite, Hito Steyerl, and many others draw from Fuller's mode of experimental design research to create provocative alternatives to corporate control and surveillance. These artists probe the space "race" and colonization as powerful means to readdress histories of violence and racial inequity. Díaz critiques the ecological costs of technological innovation and the role that techno-utopianism has played in political, economic, gender, and racial domination. Highlighting Afrofuturism, ecofeminism, and new ideas of citizenship, After Spaceship Earth conveys the vital afterlives of Fuller's concept for today's world-builders, posing vital questions of its usefulness and limits.

Author: Eva Diaz
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 03/04/2025
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.20lbs
Size: 10.30h x 7.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780300275704

About the Author
Eva Díaz is professor of contemporary art at Pratt Institute.

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