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Inside the hydroponic plant growth chamber of the Prototype Lunar Greenhouse, a variety of plants and crops are grown under the false sun of jaundiced lamplight. Do the plants know they exist inside of a futuristic simulacrum? Their roots feel soil, but do they realize it’s not the Earth?

Taylor R. Genovese on May 25, 2018

Published by Taylor R. Genovese

Taylor R. Genovese is a PhD student in the Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology program at Arizona State University. He has a BA and an MA in Anthropology and is interested in radical (techno)politics, the anthropology of outer space, utopian futures, and multimodal ethnography. More at: taylorgenovese.com and on Twitter @trgenovese.

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