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A Laboratory for Living Off-World: Re-Narrating Biosphere 2

  • Hannah Schmedes (author)
Chapter of: Earth and Beyond in Tumultuous Times: A Critical Atlas of the Anthropocene(pp. 155–180)

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TitleA Laboratory for Living Off-World
SubtitleRe-Narrating Biosphere 2
ContributorHannah Schmedes (author)
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
CopyrightHannah Schmedes
Publishermeson press
Published on2021-03-15
Long abstractWith the aid of the story of Biosphere 2 that marked the creation of the world’s first large-scale closed ecosystem laboratory, this paper connects extraterrestrial colonialism to ecology and ecosystem science. The major narrative of the Biosphere 2 project follows closed systems theory and the possibility of human life on Mars. It also states that the experiment failed. In what follows, this narrative is contextualized and searched for its blind spots. The development of the project, its underlying epistemic assumptions and its paradigmatic figureheads are tracked and surveyed. Secondly, another possible narrative is outlined with the perspective of ants and cockroaches, highlighting symbiosis and co-dependence.
Page rangepp. 155–180
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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Hannah Schmedes

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Hannah Schmedes studies European Media Studies at the University of Potsdam and works at the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity. Image, Space, Material« of Humboldt University of Berlin. Her research focusses on the correlation of biological and technical narratives about extraterrestrial colonialism and symbiosis.