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Manifesto of the Committee to Abolish Outer Space (2015) (thenewinquiry.com)
4 points by speckx on Oct 24, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


For those interested in speculative manifestos, I give you the manifesto of the International Necronautical Society;

http://necronauts.net/manifestos/1999_times_manifesto.html

Key points:

- Death as Space: The manifesto asserts that "death is a type of space, which we intend to map, enter, colonise and, eventually, inhabit."

- Beauty and Death: It posits that there is no beauty without the presence of death, emphasizing its immanence in life.

Of TFA, I love its spirit. Speculative thinkers are easy to deride, and are guaranteed to be more likely wrong than right. However, I believe that speculation has an important function: to map the fuzzy bounds of a domain.




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