The Satellite Coast: SpaceX, Vandenberg Space Force Base, and Relations of Infrastructural Adjacency
Internationella forskare samlas i Norrk枚ping vid en workshop f枚r att diskutera hur medieinfrastrukturer kan studeras, fr氓n kablar och datacenter till satellitn盲tverk och digitala plattformar. Syftet 盲r att utforska hur forskning om digitala infrastrukturer kan bidra till kunskap, samh盲llsengagemang och f枚r盲ndring 盲ven utanf枚r akademin. Alla som 盲r intresserade 盲r v盲lkommen att delta vid en 枚ppen delen av programmet, den f枚rel盲sningen ges p氓 engelska.
13.15-14.30 Keynote lecture, Prof. Lisa Parks, UCSB
Titel:
The Satellite Coast: SpaceX, Vandenberg Space Force Base, and Relations of Infrastructural Adjacency
Talare:
Lisa Parks, Distinguished Professor of Film and Media, University of California, Santa Barbara. .
Abstract:
This lecture explores the material effects of intensified commercial satellite launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base on the central coast of California over the past ten years. The 鈥渟atellite coast鈥� is conceptualized as a zone of technological, economic, and socio-cultural activity where agriculture, aerospace, and prison industries converge on the traditional lands of Indigenous Chumash communities. This is an area inhabited by generations of fishermen, fruit pickers, and ranchers, military personnel and space engineers, housing developers and incarcerated persons. It is a zone of skyward trajectories, speculative futures, and broken promises. Drawing on archival research, trade research, and community-based fieldwork, the lecture historicizes and analyzes material conditions faced by communities who work and live adjacent to satellite launch complexes, including environmental and public health-related concerns caused by noise and emissions, impacts on cultural resources and spiritual practices of communities indigenous to the area, and socio-economic effects on nearby towns. The research is focused on understanding the local effects of global satellite constellations that are owned and operated by US private companies such as SpaceX and Blue Origin.
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Ett arrangemang av聽det聽Forskningsmilj枚n Kultur och samh盲lle, inom det nya tematiska forskningsomr氓det Digital Society, Infrastructure, Legacies, vid Link枚pings universitet, i samarbete med Global Media Technologies and Cultures Lab vid University of California, Santa Barbara.