Read Becky Ferreira’s great article about pooping on the moon, featuring my research on Intimate Outer Space: Towards a Politics of Gravity, Waste, and the Spatial Orientation of Bodies
Pooping on the Moon Is a Messy Business (Becky Ferreira, wired.com, June 25, 2024) available here:
https://www.wired.com/story/pooping-on-the-moon-is-a-messy-business/
“We are this multiplicity,” says Katherine Sammler, a human geographer at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, who has written about waste management in space through the lens of critical social theory. “We bring with us nonhuman passengers, like microbes and bacteria, as well as our own bodies and the things that go in and out of them. We have to think about the passengers that come with us and their experience of gravity and radiation on the moon.” The bags of waste would be rich sites for doing research, she adds. “What’s there? What’s left?”
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