From Without Guarantees: In Honour of Stuart Hall, “The State of War and the State of Hybridization,” by Néstor García Canclini.
Over the weekend, I encountered an episode of NPR’s All Things Considered titled, “The push to get the moon its own time zone.” I saw an article this morning (also from NPR) discussing the need for international agreements as NASA plans what “Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC)” will look like. Perhaps it was because this essay was still fresh in my mind, but Canclini’s discussion of globalization and hybridization came to mind. In previous classes, we have discussed space colonization and its implications, but none of these conversations addressed the impact of space colonization on terrestrial cultures and their interactions/relations with each other. Here is my (two-part) question:
Where does cultural studies fit into space exploration and colonization? How can we apply the scholarship on hybridization (e.g., Canclini’s essay) to the possible impacts of moon colonization on culture and cultural identity?
From Without Guarantees: In Honour of Stuart Hall, “Representing ‘Globalization’: Notes on the Discursive Orderings of Economic Life,” by Paul du Gay.
In this essay, du Gay discusses globalization, economic security, and individuals as enterprise. The following statement resonated with me the most: “Once a human life is conceived of primarily in entrepreneurial terms, the ‘owner’ of that life becomes individually responsible for their own self-advancement and care; within the ideals of enterprise, individuals are charged with managing the conduct of the business of their own lives” (120). I felt like this connects so much to my research and interest in universal basic income as an act of care (which I discuss in my digital story). Here is my multi-part question:
Once a human life is conceived of in entrepreneurial terms, can this conception be undone? That is, are we stuck as the enterprise-individual? If not, then what would be the conditions for becoming un-enterprised?
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