Sublime

Norton suddenly recalled the myth of Oceanus, the sea that, the ancients believed, surrounded the Earth. Here, perhaps, was an even stranger sea—not circular, but cylindrical.

«La humanidad es como un ser cuyos brazos se alargan hasta tocar las estrellas, y cuyos pies están atascados en el barro. Por una parte, este siglo verá una nueva era de exploración espacial robótica, porque enviaremos satélites cuya misión será localizar en el espacio planetas gemelos de la Tierra, explorar las lunas de Júpiter, e incluso tomar im

today we witness billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson in an interplanetary race of their own. They are peddling “the idea that space represents a public hope, all the while reaping big private profits,” notes scholar Alina Utrata. For all the accolades showered upon these men as visionary entrepreneurs, “their celestial utopias s

sixth-century Christian scientist John Philoponus, who speculated that heavenly bodies are in fact mutable, that above the atmosphere there was perhaps a vacuum, that the stars were not (as pagan scientists believed) spiritual intelligences, but merely masses of fire, and that the planets might move by an ‘impressed’ impetus.

Ce qui s’ouvre est bien une nouvelle époque de « grandes découvertes », mais celles-ci ne ressemblent ni à la conquête en extension d’un Nouveau Monde vidé de ses habitants comme autrefois ni à la fuite éperdue dans une forme d’hyper-néo-modernité, mais à l’enfouissement dans la Terre aux mille plis.