Space is the Place, extracts from 'Escape From Gravity' The conquest of space is part of the planetary hope of an economic system which, saturated with commodities, ejaculates into space when it arrives at the end of the noose of its terrestrial contradictions. A new America, space must serve the state as a new territory for wars and colonies- a new territory to send producers/consumers and thus enable the system to break out of the planet's limitations. Province of accumulation, space is destined to become an accumulation of provinces- for which laws, treaties and international tribunals already exist. A new Yalta, the dividing up of space shows the inability of capitalists and bureaucrats to resolve their antagonisms and struggles here on Earth.

But the evolutionary old mole, which is now gnawing at the bases of the system, will destroy the barriers that separate science from the generalised knowledge of humans. No more ideas of separate power, no more power of separate ideas. Local, community-based space exploration programs and the permanent transformation of the world by an Association of Autonomous Astronauts will make science a banality and no longer a truth of state.