CHRONICLE. The founder of Amazon, and the richest man in the world, is about to fly into space. Billionaire's delusion or mirror of our dreams? Excerpts, by Sophie Chassat.
Ground control to major Jeff. This is the message that the Earth's control tower seems to be sending to the founder of Amazon since the announcement, at the beginning of June, of his journey as the first space tourist in history. [...]
To land or to take off? That's the choice we all face today, and space tourism is the symbol of it. Hence the passions they arouse. Hence also their "political" character: literally, what is our polis, the city where we humans want to live? Earth or space?
In the prologue to Condition of Modern Man, written a year after the launch of Sputnik, Hannah Arendt already described the "temptation to escape earthly imprisonment " characterizing our modernity as a " primordial political question ".
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