The Expanse and Philosophy: So Far Out Into the Darkness

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Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Contributors: Expanded Rocinante Crew List
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
Orbit First From Earth to the Stars
	Chapter 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
	Chapter 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
	Chapter 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
	Chapter 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
Orbit Second Is It the Protomolecule, or Just Human Nature?
	Chapter 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
	Chapter 6 Amos Meets Nietzsche
		People of Three Kinds
		“Good and Bad” or “Good and Evil”
		Ressentiment
		Will to Power
		Amos Is No Superman
		Notes
	Chapter 7 Is Amos Evil?
		“I am that guy”
		What Happened to Amos?
		Is Amos Really “That” Guy?
		The Upsides of Amos
		Notes
	Chapter 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
	Chapter 9 Terrorism and the Churn
		Killing and Making Free
		People Like Us
		A Crossroads in Human History
		Notes
Orbit Third Remember the Cant!
	Chapter 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
	Chapter 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
	Chapter 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
	Chapter 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
Orbit Fourth They Still Dream
	Chapter 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
	Chapter 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
	Chapter 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
Orbit Fifth Tilting at Windmills
	Chapter 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
	Chapter 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
	Chapter 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
Orbit Sixth Riding the Roci
	Chapter 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
	Chapter 21 Between Worlds: The Multiplicitous Subjectivity of Naomi Nagata
		Self and World
		Worlds and World Travel
		Between Worlds and Borderlands
		One and Multitudes
		Notes
	Chapter 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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