Abstract

JOHNSON, Anne W.. Mexico in Orbit: Satellite Dreams from the South. Rev. colomb. antropol. [online]. 2023, vol.59, n.2, pp.44-68.  Epub May 01, 2023. ISSN 0486-6525.  https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472x.2437.

Satellites, those natural or artificial bodies that orbit other bodies, occupy a privileged place within the imaginary and the practices of the so-called “space community” in Mexico. In this text, based on ethnographic and documentary sources, I reflect on these objects from two perspectives: as participants in the transformation of space and place that extends territory upward and crosses borders and as fundamental elements in infrastructural and/or artistic assemblages that connect and co-construct subjects and objects, in some cases appealing to a kind of “satellite sublime” that tries to reenchant technology, the cosmos and the Earth itself.

Keywords : satellites; infrastructure; Mexico; technology; outer space.

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