Original scientific paper

Dona et Impera: Politics of a Moon Rock

Igor Ekštajn

Abstract

To mark the end of the Apollo program, the United States of America extended a goodwill gesture to the international community by distributing the Goodwill Moon Rock plaques. In Lefebvrian terms, the production of space requires social action: the production of lunar space requires extension of the life-giving terrestrial confinement onto this new territory. Thus the Goodwill Moon Rock represents a universal human achievement, but is also token of a different and exclusive space that the U.S. did not formally own, but only had an exclusive capacity to produce. Goodwill Moon Rock reveals an intriguing dynamics of design, technology, nature, and politics in the Cold War context.

Keywords

Cold War; geopolitic; outer space; space production; territory

Hrčak ID:

185545

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/185545

Publication date:

1.7.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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