About this Book

Cover -- Titlepage -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Charles S. Cockell -- References -- 1 Are we ready for new liberties? Stewarding mutually assured autonomy through place-based experiments -- Zarinah Karim Agnew, Eldridge Cruse, Kevin Bruce, Engelbert Wilfred Perlas, and Joseph Krauter -- 1. Towards Posthumanism -- 2. Mutually Assured Stewarded Autonomy -- 3. Place-based Experimental Spaces in Future Crafting and Social Innovation -- 4. Wisdoms of the Formerly Incarcerated -- 4.1 Social order emerges in altered places -- 5. Principles of New Liberties-Lessons from Place-based Stewarded Mutual Autotomy -- 5.1 What can be learnt for extra-terrestrial liberties from incarceration? -- 5.2.1 Social freedom -- 5.2.2 Anti-individualistic individuality and transindividuation -- 5.2.3 Self-determination and alternative justices -- 5.2.4 Constituent power (potenza) -- 5.2.5 The evolution and social reproduction of liberty -- 6. Conclusions and Speculative Futures -- References -- 2 The voyage of 600 years: The ethical governance of a worldship -- Stephen Baxter -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Worldships: Fact and Fiction -- 2.1 Worldships: Fact -- 2.2 Worldships: Fiction -- 3. Worldships-Costs and Goals -- 3.1 Costs -- 3.2 Goals -- 4. Worldships-Ethical Challenges and Solutions -- 4.1 Freedom of movement -- 4.2 Environmental richness -- vocational choices -- 5. Population Control -- 5.1 Population maxima and cultural minima -- 5.2 Reproduction rules -- 5.3 Population control: Applying the rules -- 6. Cultural Drift -- 7. Ethical Dilemmas and Solutions -- 7.1 Morality and context -- 7.2 Solutions: Technology -- 7.3 Solutions: Social forms -- 7.4 Solutions: Ship size -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- 3 Art, institutions, and liberty in extraterrestrial communities -- Annalea Beattie -- References.