Getting Off The Ground: Techniques Of The Future Against Gravity

This article attempts to conceive of a philosophical significance for gravity and scenarious of overcoming it. In connection with this, the possibility of overcoming gravity is examined in three registers: epistemological, ontological, and technological. One of the concrete and technical means and key images of overcoming gravity is the space flight, which allows the authors to root their reasoning the field of philosophy and science fiction, having given "thought" and "fiction" equal rights.This perspective also implies the need for the conceptualization of techniques that forms the material basis for theoretical and artistic antigravity projects. Making the claim that contemporary technocapitalism and its accompanying cosmic imagination reveal a utopian and instrumental relationship to technology and space exploration, and thus require a critical evaluation, the authors take on the task of formulatng its alternative.