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OverviewApplying recent thinking on gender and the environment to original research in science and technology, this unique book explores postcolonial relationships with ‘the wild‘ using the US and Russia as examples. The authors analyse contemporary categorizations of ‘human self‘ versus ‘wild other‘ through three twentieth century icons that best illustrate ambivalent ideas about self and other: spaceships, horoscopes and dolphins. The book includes interviews with astrologers, wilderness guides, dolphin trainers and academic staff of space agencies from both Russia and the US.The interviews highlight some interesting differences between these two cultures in ideas both about gender and about self/other boundaries. The authors also look at representations of the space race in film and science fiction in both cultures, as well as New Age and other texts on dolphins, astrology and space travel. Cosmodolphins shows how all three icons partly reproduce and partly alter the earlier, colonial self/other dichotomy of woman, native and nature against the ‘civilized‘ technologically masterful male self. We see how a particular icon of the wild - the dolphin - is elevated to mythological status, how a secularized society looks for spiritual fulfilment in the `beyond‘ - astrology - and in its own technological advances - space travel. Theoretically innovative, this book represents an alternative approach to ecofeminist themes linking them up with studies of new technocultures and cyborgs. It forms an excellent exemplar of feminist cultural studies. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mette Bryld , Nina LykkePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Zed Books Ltd Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 13.80cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.290kg ISBN: 9781856498166ISBN 10: 1856498166 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 01 February 2000 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents Prelude and Introduction. 1. Map of Matrices. Amazing Stories 1: The Spaceship, the Horoscope and the Dolphin 2. Between Amazement and Estrangement. 3. The Big Mission. 4. Terraforming: Farmers in the Sky. Amazing Stories 2: The Dark Side of the Moon 5. As Above, So Below. 6. One Does Not Stir Without the Other. 7. Voices from Inner and Outer space: Refiguring Mother Sea and Father Sky. Amazing Stories 3: Dolphin Versatility: From Living Missiles to Healers 8. Rocket State and Dolphin State. 9. Conclusion: Inappropriate Contiguities Revisited.ReviewsThrough reading of post world War II stories of space flight, New Age astrology and dolphin mythology, Mette Bryld and Nina Lykke effectively deconstruct the Euro-American phallocentric mission to civilize the wild trinity of woman-native-nature. * Govind Kelkar, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand * This inspiring work of necessary de-stabilization and de-naturalization puts feminist culture studies forward into the questions of livable future. * Lena Trojer, University of Karlskrona/Ronneby * This is a breath-taking ride through the cutting edge of contemporary cultural critique. From the exploration of outer space to the bottom of the sea, the book has a global reach... Witty, even wicked at times, it's NASA through Bakhtin's eyes and Flipper meets Foucault... A delight to read. * Rosi Braidotti * Mette Bryld & Nina Lykke's Cosmodolphins is one of those rare books that can startle the reader into fresh ways of seeing things... Cosmodolphins does a brilliant job of theorizing the cosmos and of inspiring other feminist cultural critics to do likewise. * Sylvia Bowerbank, McMaster University, Canada * 'This is a breath-taking ride through the cutting edge of contemporary cultural critique. From the exploration of outer space to the bottom of the sea, the book has a global reach... Witty, even wicked at times, it's NASA through Bakhtin's eyes and Flipper meets Foucault... A delight to read.' Rosi Braidotti 'Through reading of post world War II stories of space flight, New Age astrology and dolphin mythology, Mette Bryld and Nina Lykke effectively deconstruct the Euro-American phallocentric mission to civilize the wild trinity of woman-native-nature.' Govind Kelkar, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand 'Mette Bryld & Nina Lykke's Cosmodolphins is one of those rare books that can startle the reader into fresh ways of seeing things... Cosmodolphins does a brilliant job of theorizing the cosmos and of inspiring other feminist cultural critics to do likewise.' Sylvia Bowerbank, McMaster University, Canada 'This inspiring work of necessary de-stabilization and de-naturalization puts feminist culture studies forward into the questions of livable future.' Lena Trojer, University of Karlskrona/Ronneby 'This is a breath-taking ride through the cutting edge of contemporary cultural critique. From the exploration of outer space to the bottom of the sea, the book has a global reach... Witty, even wicked at times, it's NASA through Bakhtin's eyes and Flipper meets Foucault... A delight to read' - Rosi Braidotti 'Through reading of post world War II stories of space flight, New Age astrology and dolphin mythology, Mette Bryld and Nina Lykke effectively deconstruct the Euro-American phallocentric mission to civilize the wild trinity of woman-native-nature' - Dr. Govind Kelkar, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand 'Mette Bryld & Nina Lykke's Cosmodolphins is one of those rare books that can startle the reader into fresh ways of seeing things... Cosmodolphins does a brilliant job of theorizing the cosmos and of inspiring other feminist cultural critics to do likewise.' - Dr. Sylvia Bowerbank, McMaster University, Canada 'This inspiring work of necessary de-stabilization and de-naturalization puts feminist culture studies forward into the questions of livable future.' - Professor Lena Trojer, University of Karlskrona/Ronneby Author InformationMette Marie Bryld and Nina? Lykke work at the University of Southern Denmark. 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