PARIAHS IN THE UNIVERSE: THE SUBLIME IN SPACE EXPLORATION

The present work is an analysis of the way in which the concept of << space exploration >> contains certain fallacious aspects in relation to true space exploration, since it has been constructed on the basis of texts from diverse aesthetic languages of what is traditionally called << popular culture >>. These texts have played with a social imaginary that refers to a certain spatial romanticism and an obsession with a disturbing or exemplary Other, as the case may be, as well as with the sublime detached from the so-called << cosmic vertigo >>. All this comes together under the clich & eacute; of << sense of wonder >>.