The aim of this research project is to explore the narratives of posthumanism and ecohumanism in outer space. The study of agency between the humans and non-human life forms is apt to the rise of a new era, that of Astropocene. The latter is the next era where life forms will live together in the outer space on future. The ambition to live in other than Earth satellites and planets, such as the Moon and Mars, raise our awareness theoretically and empirically of what life will be there and if humanism will be the same as the current narrative of it is.
Indeed, the dichotomy among anthropocentrism and post-anthropocentrism will not exist there as the living conditions of outer space presupposes to find new ways of symbiotic existence. The fields of architecture, mechanical engineering and aerospace, life sciences and humanities have been in the steam on the study of both post humanism and ecohumanism in theory and praxis.
The lunar and martian narratives of the future also raise the question of what kind of humanism will be shaped and been shaped by, imagine or not, as well as if we have to consider the new and non-human narratives that will be advanced beyond humanism’s future in a more than human world of outer space where communities will study and frame their own era.
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