Mary-Jane Rubenstein

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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…