Designing for voice in the vacuum : property in citizenship for democratic equality for future spacefarers

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Designing for Voice in the Vacuum

Property in Citizenship for Democratic

Equality for Future Spacefarers

David Colby Reed

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Designing for Voice in the Vacuum

Property in Citizenship for Democratic

Equality for Future Spacefarers

David Colby Reed

S P M A S S A P A M S M A S M I T S The i S e i : D W P D B C C D A P R E M A S A A

Abstract

The hostile en ironments of space ill require that human life be ond Earth be mediated b man ad anced technologies and the man operationall

prescripti e s stems needed to manage them. Such sociotechnical s stems ill be characteri ed b hierarch , routine, and continuous monitoring. An humans li ing in space ill spend the entiret of their time under conditions characteri ed b such s stems. Under constant sur eillance, totali ing hierarch , and

circumscribed routines, the prospects for democratic social relations appear dim. I offer up se eral frames that can be used to consider social relations among future spacefarers. B considering perspecti es on technolog studies, group ps chological processes, and legal institutions I e plore the question of democratic equalit in space from multiple perspecti es. I suggest that

contemporar discussions of designs for future spacefaring societ should center on ho those designs ill influence democratic equalit , and I offer some

preliminar sketches of hat this might look like.

I ie m contributions as s nthesis and reframing. M hope is that this ork begins to bring subject matter e perts ho do not t picall appl their e pertise to space to do so.

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Designing for Voice in the Vacuum

Property in Citizenship for Democratic

Equality for Future Spacefarers

David Colby Reed

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