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Mary-Jane Rubenstein

Mary-Jane Rubenstein teaches religion, science studies, and feminist and gender studies at Wesleyan University. She is the author of books about wonder, cosmology, physics, ecology, and space exploration, including most recently Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters (Columba, 2018) and Image: Three Inquiries in Technology and Imagination (Chicago, 2021), coauthored with Thomas Carlson and Mark C. Taylor.

The corporate form

Somewhere out there: Corporate utopias of space and sea

Mary-Jane Rubenstein·

Jenna Supp-Montgomerie·

April 30, 2021

In this conversation, Mary-Jane Rubenstein and Jenna Supp-Montgomerie discuss their interests in the NewSpace Race and seasteading, two endeavors that…

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Cosmology and the environment

Whitney Bauman·

David Christian·

Willis Jenkins·

Lucas Johnston·

Mary-Jane Rubenstein·

Lisa H. Sideris·

Bron Taylor·

September 14, 2015

Can—and should—a scientific account of the universe function as a global myth? If so, what is the likely impact of…

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Homosexuality and the Anglican debate

Mary Anne Case·

Eric Fassin·

Siobhán Garrigan·

Jimmy Casas Klausen·

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Emilie Townes·

August 4, 2009

Off the cuff is a new feature at The Immanent Frame, in which we pose a question to a handful…

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