Lou Cornum



5 Stories by Lou Cornum

We Are All Astronauts

In posing Earth as spaceship rather than living matter, Buckminster Fuller misses the spontaneity of dynamism and creation itself. Decay is necessary.
February 19, 2019 4 min read

The Far Side of Utopia

Instead of thinking of space exploration as isolated national efforts, we can view the smaller programs of countries like Lebanon and Zambia as inspiration...
January 22, 2019 4 min read

We Are a Space People

If science fiction's aim is to estrange, does a Navajo rendering of the Star Wars universe make strange the strange? Can this reappropriation ever...
December 11, 2018 4 min read

When Space Films Are Just a Vehicle for Patriotism

Outer space has been a backdrop for Western man to define himself since Galileo, who claimed the Earth was of the heavens and that...
November 13, 2018 4 min read

Who Gets to Go to Space?

Proposed travel to outer space these days is a backward-looking endeavor. The angel of history has become an astronaut.
October 16, 2018 4 min read