Home of the Mind

Representation, governance, and frontierism converge in the legal and economic architectures of space colonization. The push for commercial space advertising, the privatization of extraterrestrial resources, and the extropian aspiration to transcend earthly constraints reveal a persistent logic of expansion and control. From Felix Baumgartner’s meticulously staged free fall to corporate lunar crypto-missions, trajectories of capital, technology, and law inscribe new frontiers while simultaneously reinforcing entrenched power structures. Through a matterphorical analysis, this chapter interrogates the entanglement of legal thought with material conditions, exposing the tensions between sovereignty and indeterminacy, property and the void, jurisdiction and the ungovernable. At the limits of atmosphere and law, where representation falters, new modes of sensemaking and normativity take shape.