Extraterrestrial biopolitics and Jack Parsons

Henry scuffling at gmail.com
Tue Jun 10 07:34:04 CDT 2008


http://circleof13.blogspot.com/2008/06/extraterrestrial-biopolitics-and.html 

Extraterrestrial biopolitics and creative industries security

"In his novel 'Gravity's Rainbow' Thomas Pynchon contemplates the ambiguous interrelations between sex, rockets and magic. Jack Parsons, a key figure in American rocketry, lost his reputation and security clearance in obsessive pursuit of occult rituals and sexual mumbo-jumbo before he diffused into space in a lab explosion in 1952. A crater on the dark side of the moon is named in memory of Parsons, a tribute to the shady cofounder of the famed Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The 19th century spiritualist pseudoscience of a world of ghosts and occult belief in spirits, a complex adaptation to modernity, has morphed into 20th century sciences."

Jack Parsons, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons 

HENRY MU
Information, Media, and Technology Consultant

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