Eye in the Sky
Eye in the Sky
Monday, 7 July 2025: 13:45
Location: FSE013 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
Oral Presentation
Opening with the matter of universality, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism evokes sidereal space, multiple despite the unicist vision of the universe. Since the 1940s, the satellite colonization of the sky has revolutionized our bond with time and space. GPS (USA), Glonass (Russia), and Galileo (Europe) satellite navigation systems orbit between 10 and 20 thousand km and Beidou (China) orbits at 30 thousand km; Tesla’s monopoly dedicated to 5G telecommunications (fast internet with global coverage) is launching almost daily 50 X 50 cm cubes orbiting at 3 thousand km, while the network of Earth surface observation satellites orbits much lower (LEO) between 300 and 1000 km.
The architecture of this celestial surveillance panopticon allows a dual vision, towards the planet and towards the universe, employing a radio signal whose detailed accuracy must rely on a four unknown equation centered on an essential protagonist, time. This deep-eye apparatus in the sky observes, records, scrutinizes. Spurred on by the space economy, in 2025 a joint international mission will return to the moon equipped with 3D printers capable of producing modules to enable human life and, above all, the extraction of the rare-earth elements (REE) detected in the lunar south pole that will soon be in short supply on earth, but also keeping in mind the potential colonization of Mars. In terms of sociological aesthetics, Homo Aereospace may not be very different from Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci, but she may also have already started a journey where science, consciousness, knowledge reunite quantum mechanics, Amazonian Hiaitsiihi, Anaxagoras’ nous, and berešit founded on the Babylonian Enūma eliš. The paper explores these issues through images, videos, and sociological theories.
The architecture of this celestial surveillance panopticon allows a dual vision, towards the planet and towards the universe, employing a radio signal whose detailed accuracy must rely on a four unknown equation centered on an essential protagonist, time. This deep-eye apparatus in the sky observes, records, scrutinizes. Spurred on by the space economy, in 2025 a joint international mission will return to the moon equipped with 3D printers capable of producing modules to enable human life and, above all, the extraction of the rare-earth elements (REE) detected in the lunar south pole that will soon be in short supply on earth, but also keeping in mind the potential colonization of Mars. In terms of sociological aesthetics, Homo Aereospace may not be very different from Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci, but she may also have already started a journey where science, consciousness, knowledge reunite quantum mechanics, Amazonian Hiaitsiihi, Anaxagoras’ nous, and berešit founded on the Babylonian Enūma eliš. The paper explores these issues through images, videos, and sociological theories.