Philosophical Objections to Media Contexts of Terraforming

Anna Sámelová

doi:10.1515/humaff-2022-1010

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Philosophical Objections to Media Contexts of Terraforming

Anna Sámelová

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From the journal Human Affairs Volume 33 Issue 2

Abstract

This theoretical study focuses on terraforming in the context of the industrially created image of the world by the mainstream media and on philosophical objections to the terraforming activities of humanity. The first part discusses the specific nature of the spectacularism of media images, while the second part explains the paradigmatic change in media images. The third part then turns to the ethically grounded binarism of current philosophical reflections on human expansion into space. The purpose of this study is to consider objections to the mainstream media focus from the viewpoint of contemporary philosophy. The theoretical reflection is based on induction and deduction in order to point out the ambivalence of what humanity can do in the framework of progress in the sense of what it is capable of and in the sense of what is right.

Keywords: terraforming; media; image of the world; spectacularism; paradigmatic change

Corresponding author: Anna Sámelová, Department of Journalism, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, E-mail: anna.samelova@uniba.sk

Funding source: AgentÃºra na Podporu VÃ½skumu a VÃ½voja

Award Identifier / Grant number: APVV-18-0103

Research funding: This research was funded by the Slovak Research and Development Agency under contract no. APVV-18-0103: Paradigmatic Changes in the Understanding of Universe and Man from Philosophical, Theological, and Physical Perspectives.
Declaration: Anna Sámelová as the author of the submitted manuscript qualifies as the author and has approved the submitted version. Her work is original and is not under consideration by any other journal. She has permission to reproduce any previously published material.

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Received: 2022-11-30

Revised: 2023-01-16

Accepted: 2023-02-01

Published Online: 2023-04-07

Published in Print: 2023-06-27

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terraforming; media; image of the world; spectacularism; paradigmatic change