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The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
THE EXPANSE AND PHILOSOPHY. SO FAR OUT INTO THE DARKNESS
Contributors: Expanded Rocinante Crew List
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
1 The Infinite and the Sublime in The Expanse
Chiaroscuro
A New, Infinite (And Wonderful?) Universe
The Abyss Looks Back (Nietzsche Warned You …)
Is It Large Out Here? Or Is It Me?
Freedom and the Sublime in The Expanse
Dynamically Sublime
Howl at the Moon If You Want To
Notes
2 Interplanetary Expansion and the Deep Future
Does Humanity Have a Future?
The Value of Humanity
Life and Biodiversity
Hedging Our Bets Against Extinction Risk
Future Humans
What Really Matters
Notes
3 Humanity’s Dilemma before Abaddon’s Gate
Colonizing the System
Colonizing at the Speed of Light
Unimaginable Opportunities
Actual Threats to Our Existence
Notes
4 Hate Expectations: Politics and Gender Roles in The Expanse
The Male is By Nature More Expert at Leading and Other Complete Drivel: Aristotle Tries to Find his Ass With Two Hands and a Fakós
Me and My Husband and My Byronic Hero are Taking Our Giant Helmet and Going Home
Paint Me Like One of Your Manic Pixie Dream Girls
Who’s the Nasty One Now? Fear Mongering and the Fragile Male Ego
Conclusion: Whatever I Goddamn Like
Notes
5 The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt and Jules‐Pierre Mao
How Can Evil Be Banal?
A Moral Monster?
Making Sense of Fanaticism
Lack of Imagination
Anyone Can Do It! (Or Can They?)
Should Mao Be Pardoned?
Notes
6 Amos Meets Nietzsche
People of Three Kinds
“Good and Bad” or “Good and Evil”
Ressentiment
Will to Power
Amos Is No Superman
Notes
7 Is Amos Evil?
“I am that guy”
What Happened to Amos?
Is Amos Really “That” Guy?
The Upsides of Amos
Notes
8 Moral Obligation in an Anarchic World
It’s Anarchy
How Philosophy Helps Us Discover Our Values
When to Fight?
How to Fight?
What Promotes Moral Behavior?
Notes
9 Terrorism and the Churn
Killing and Making Free
People Like Us
A Crossroads in Human History
Notes
10 The Inners Must Die: Marco Inaros and the Righteousness of Anti‐Colonial Violence
Colonization
The Wretched of the Belt
The Limits of Peace
A Cleansing Violence
A More Human Future
Notes
11 Being Beltalowda: Patriotism and Nationalism in The Expanse
Patriotism and Nationalism According to Orwell
Drummer the Patriot, Marco the Nationalist
Offensive Versus Defensive Attitudes
Obsession
Indifference to Reality
Against Love of Nation
Notes
12 Anarchy in the OPA: Sovereignty, Capitalism, and Bare Life
“Every Breath You Take”
“Seek and Destroy”
“I Fought the Law”
More Inhuman than Human
“Sunday, Bloody vunday”
“Where Eagles Dare”
“3’s and 7’s”
“Personal Jesus”
“I Want to Conquer the World”
Notes
13 “Can’t We Try Something Else?” Is James Holden a Hero?
Filling Our Ears with Wax and Our Brains with Electromagnetic Waves
No Nature, No Nurture
Of Mother Born
Tilting at Windmills
Notes
14 “We had a garden and we paved it” The Expanse and the Philosophy of the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene
The Cascade
The Anthropocentrism of the Anthropocene
The Issue with Wanting to “Turn a lifeless rock into a garden”
“We’re all in this together.” “That is a story”
“Earthers, Martians—they see us as their possessions, animals”
“Doing nothing is just as bad as doing the wrong thing”
Notes
15 We Can Be Gods: Remorseless Logic or Shared Humanity
“I wonder what that rain tastes like?”
“If we master it, we can apply it”
Detecting Stealth Ships
“… hardly a rounding error”
“What happens to us now?”
Note
16 Gunnery Sergeant Draper and the Martian Congressional Republic’s Vision for Mars
Revolutionary Revelations
Nothing New in Orbit of the Sun
Philosophy on the Martian Frontier
It’s Life in the Solar System, Jim, But Not as We Know It
Notes
17 How to Be a Hero: Hannah Arendt and Naomi Nagata on Making and Doing Politics
Escaping the Monster of Ganymede
Waddling Between Making and Doing Politics
Be Mindful Not to Trip Over Your Own Foot
Somewhere Beyond Inaros and Holden
The Burden of the End of the World
Notes
18 The Lives of Naomi Nagata: Intersectionality and the Impossible Choices of Resistance
Intersectionality and Betrayal
Belter Lives Matter?
Knuckles and the Augustín Gamarra
Notes
19 Risky Tradeoffs in The Expanse
Epistemic Value vs. Moral Value: Evil Scientists
Aesthetic Value vs. Moral Value: Mad Scientists, Awestruck Reverends
Epistemic Value vs. Prudential Value: Intrepid Scientists
Conflicts Between Values
Risky Tradeoffs
20 The Long Dark Night of The Hat: The Metaphysical Fate of Detective Josephus Miller and His Headwear
Hemlock and Haberdashery: Plato and Socrates
Fervor and Fedoras: Aristotle
Spiritual Guts: Aquinas
The Grudge Match: Philosophy vs. The Protomolecule
The Investigator Must, Therefore, Relinquish the Hat
21 Between Worlds: The Multiplicitous Subjectivity of Naomi Nagata
Self and World
Worlds and World Travel
Between Worlds and Borderlands
One and Multitudes
Notes
22 Language Games in The Expanse : If a Lion Could Showxa, We Would Not Pochuye Him
Use–Mention Distinction
Wittgenstein
The Picture Book Model of Language
The Language Game Model of Language
The Language Games the Solar System Plays
On the Other Side of the Ring: A Difficult Consequence
Notes
Appendix: The Expanse Episodes List. Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
Index
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