The Space Oracle
Ken Hollings · 2018
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About the book
**A radical retelling of our relationship with the cosmos, reinventing the history of astronomy as a new form of astrological calendar.** Astronomy is another form of cinema. Time is fragmented and extended. Matter becomes light in motion. The camera remains fixed, looking outwards into the darkness, while the earth moves beneath our feet. A carefully constructed text in sixty numbered sections, The Space Oracle reinvents the history of astronomy as a new form of astrological calendar. This radical retelling of our relationship with the cosmos reaches back to places and times when astronomers were treated as artists or priests, to when popes took part in astral rites and the common people feared eclipses and comets as portents of disaster. Panoramic and encyclopedic in its scope, The Space Oracle brings astronauts and spies, engineers and soldiers, goddesses and satellites into alignment with speculative insights and everyday observations. The universe, Hollings argues, is a work in progress—enjoy it.
Book details
- Year
- 2018
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Strange Attractor Press (MIT Press)
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 176
- ISBN
- 9781907222535
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