Katarina Damjanov
Biographic Data
| ID | 231385 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katarina Damjanov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katarina |
| FAMILY NAME | Damjanov |
| SIGNATURE | DAMJANOV K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7997-450X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Unearthing extraction: Media infrastructure and the more-than planetary mine
Media infrastructures sustain the evolving cultures of extraction. Their unfolding propels the quest for raw materials across the bounty of the natural and social world, from the excavations of coal and gold to wind and server farming, data and cryptocurrency mining and varied other exploitative approaches to resource-taking and value-making. To highlight how the strategic development of media infrastructures aligns the drive for extraction aroun…
Powering wicked futures: EV batteries as vital matters of care
A defining component of electric vehicles, batteries also prominently feature in popular discourses surrounding EV adoption. In Australia, like elsewhere, responses to EV batteries are symptomatic of biopolitical desires and anxieties surrounding the ongoing entanglements of technology, society and environment, which cast lithium-ion batteries as a wicked problem of transitioning to green automobilities, at once supporting and hindering its proce…
Commodity and the commons: Accumulations of Capital on the Space Frontier
Designated as one of the global commons, outer space steadily matures as a commodity frontier at which to propel the designs and imaginaries of capitalist economy. While plans to mine the Moon, massify space tourism and colonise Mars are still works in development, the routes of its conquest expand exponentially down here on Earth, as its spectacular proceedings are mediated into a range of images, events, artefacts, samples, and experiences that…
Extreme VR: Strategies of Sensorial Immersion and the Intensities of Experience
A range of VR products offer a variety of "extreme" experiences, providing their users with access to numerous unforgiving environments and confronting situations. This paper explores how they intensify and extend the medium's capacity for interfering in and imposing upon individual and collective perception and sensation. It locates "extreme VR" within a genealogy of the medium's own preoccupation with sensorial intensities, exploring its potent…
Mooring a Space Station: Media Infrastructure and the Inhuman Environment
Katarina Damjanov and David Crouch invite us to consider the International Space Station as a media infrastructure intimately linked to Earth through material and signal traffic
Sensational Interfaces and the Aesthetics of Space Apps
As the momentum of space exploration unfolds, our planetary exterior is increasingly transformed into a site of capitalist production and destruction. Grounded within infrastructures, processes and practices of mediation, our technological acquisition of space is also entwined back into the ambits of global media cultures down on Earth. The currents of this enculturation are indexed by the upsurge and emerging variety of “space apps” which use te…
Orbital Life on the International Space Station
The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest object in the earth’s orbit and currently the only environment that harbors human life outside the planet. This habitable satellite operates as a sophisticated scientific laboratory and is a complex and costly technological endeavor in expanding our extraplanetary presence. The ISS constitutes a unique living space—a sociotechnical arrangement that encloses humans and nonhumans in a highly regu…
Extra-planetary mobilities and the media prospects of virtual space tourism
This paper responds to the emergence, proliferation and increasing relevance of various forms of virtual tourism set in outer space. It approaches virtual space tours as a distinct register of the changing nature of travel within global media cultures in their space age, framing them as a part of the ongoing socio-technical momentum of our emerging ‘extra-planetary mobilities’. We consider the extraterrestrial provisions of virtual tourism, inclu…
Global media cultures among the stars: Formations of celebrity in outer space
The space age launched its own breed of celebrity onto the world stage. From Sputnik onwards, exploration of outer space has endowed media cultures with many spectacular events and prominent heroes, extending the currencies of fame beyond the planet. Under the rubric of ‘space celebrity’, this article gathers those famous people, animals and technologies that have been sent as our envoys into the unknowns of space, framing their exploits as a dis…
Of Defunct Satellites and Other Space Debris: Media Waste in the Orbital Commons
Defunct satellites and other technological waste are increasingly occupying Earth's orbital space, a region designated as one of the global commons. These dilapidated technologies that were commissioned to sustain the production and exchange of data, information, and images are an extraterrestrial equivalent of the media devices which are discarded on Earth. While indicating the extension of technological momentum in the shared commons of space, …
The matter of media in outer space: Technologies of cosmobiopolitics
Media technologies are steadily populating outer space - satellites and their debris clutter earth's orbital regions, robotic rovers are surveying Mars, exploratory probes are appraising moons, planets and asteroids in our solar system and further still. Drawing together a range of these earth-born human-made devices, this paper reframes them as an object of critical inquiry into the human 'mediatic' condition. These technologies occupy outer spa…
Lunar Cemetery: Global Heterotopia and the Biopolitics of Death
The burial of human remains on the Moon conjures up the idea of a lunar cemetery. This paper reviews related artistic projects and practices and situates the concept of the lunar cemetery in relation to Michel Foucault's articulation of the notions of heterotopia and biopolitics to explore the implications of perceiving the Moon as a globally shared space populated by the dead. The author also suggests that the possibility of a cemetery on the Mo…
The matter of media in outer space: Technologies of cosmobiopolitics
Media technologies are steadily populating outer space - satellites and their debris clutter earth's orbital regions, robotic rovers are surveying Mars, exploratory probes are appraising moons, planets and asteroids in our solar system and further still. Drawing together a range of these earth-born human-made devices, this paper reframes them as an object of critical inquiry into the human 'mediatic' condition. These technologies occupy outer spa…
Extra-planetary mobilities and the media prospects of virtual space tourism
This paper responds to the emergence, proliferation and increasing relevance of various forms of virtual tourism set in outer space. It approaches virtual space tours as a distinct register of the changing nature of travel within global media cultures in their space age, framing them as a part of the ongoing socio-technical momentum of our emerging ‘extra-planetary mobilities’. We consider the extraterrestrial provisions of virtual tourism, inclu…
Of Defunct Satellites and Other Space Debris: Media Waste in the Orbital Commons
Defunct satellites and other technological waste are increasingly occupying Earth's orbital space, a region designated as one of the global commons. These dilapidated technologies that were commissioned to sustain the production and exchange of data, information, and images are an extraterrestrial equivalent of the media devices which are discarded on Earth. While indicating the extension of technological momentum in the shared commons of space, …
Extreme VR: Strategies of Sensorial Immersion and the Intensities of Experience
A range of VR products offer a variety of "extreme" experiences, providing their users with access to numerous unforgiving environments and confronting situations. This paper explores how they intensify and extend the medium's capacity for interfering in and imposing upon individual and collective perception and sensation. It locates "extreme VR" within a genealogy of the medium's own preoccupation with sensorial intensities, exploring its potent…
Commodity and the commons: Accumulations of Capital on the Space Frontier
Designated as one of the global commons, outer space steadily matures as a commodity frontier at which to propel the designs and imaginaries of capitalist economy. While plans to mine the Moon, massify space tourism and colonise Mars are still works in development, the routes of its conquest expand exponentially down here on Earth, as its spectacular proceedings are mediated into a range of images, events, artefacts, samples, and experiences that…
Orbital Life on the International Space Station
The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest object in the earth’s orbit and currently the only environment that harbors human life outside the planet. This habitable satellite operates as a sophisticated scientific laboratory and is a complex and costly technological endeavor in expanding our extraplanetary presence. The ISS constitutes a unique living space—a sociotechnical arrangement that encloses humans and nonhumans in a highly regu…
Lunar Cemetery: Global Heterotopia and the Biopolitics of Death
The burial of human remains on the Moon conjures up the idea of a lunar cemetery. This paper reviews related artistic projects and practices and situates the concept of the lunar cemetery in relation to Michel Foucault's articulation of the notions of heterotopia and biopolitics to explore the implications of perceiving the Moon as a globally shared space populated by the dead. The author also suggests that the possibility of a cemetery on the Mo…
Global media cultures among the stars: Formations of celebrity in outer space
The space age launched its own breed of celebrity onto the world stage. From Sputnik onwards, exploration of outer space has endowed media cultures with many spectacular events and prominent heroes, extending the currencies of fame beyond the planet. Under the rubric of ‘space celebrity’, this article gathers those famous people, animals and technologies that have been sent as our envoys into the unknowns of space, framing their exploits as a dis…
Lunar Cemetery: Global Heterotopia and the Biopolitics of Death
The burial of human remains on the Moon conjures up the idea of a lunar cemetery. This paper reviews related artistic projects and practices and situates the concept of the lunar cemetery in relation to Michel Foucault's articulation of the notions of heterotopia and biopolitics to explore the implications of perceiving the Moon as a globally shared space populated by the dead. The author also suggests that the possibility of a cemetery on the Mo…
The matter of media in outer space: Technologies of cosmobiopolitics
Media technologies are steadily populating outer space - satellites and their debris clutter earth's orbital regions, robotic rovers are surveying Mars, exploratory probes are appraising moons, planets and asteroids in our solar system and further still. Drawing together a range of these earth-born human-made devices, this paper reframes them as an object of critical inquiry into the human 'mediatic' condition. These technologies occupy outer spa…
Global media cultures among the stars: Formations of celebrity in outer space
The space age launched its own breed of celebrity onto the world stage. From Sputnik onwards, exploration of outer space has endowed media cultures with many spectacular events and prominent heroes, extending the currencies of fame beyond the planet. Under the rubric of ‘space celebrity’, this article gathers those famous people, animals and technologies that have been sent as our envoys into the unknowns of space, framing their exploits as a dis…
Of Defunct Satellites and Other Space Debris: Media Waste in the Orbital Commons
Defunct satellites and other technological waste are increasingly occupying Earth's orbital space, a region designated as one of the global commons. These dilapidated technologies that were commissioned to sustain the production and exchange of data, information, and images are an extraterrestrial equivalent of the media devices which are discarded on Earth. While indicating the extension of technological momentum in the shared commons of space, …
Sensational Interfaces and the Aesthetics of Space Apps
As the momentum of space exploration unfolds, our planetary exterior is increasingly transformed into a site of capitalist production and destruction. Grounded within infrastructures, processes and practices of mediation, our technological acquisition of space is also entwined back into the ambits of global media cultures down on Earth. The currents of this enculturation are indexed by the upsurge and emerging variety of “space apps” which use te…
Orbital Life on the International Space Station
The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest object in the earth’s orbit and currently the only environment that harbors human life outside the planet. This habitable satellite operates as a sophisticated scientific laboratory and is a complex and costly technological endeavor in expanding our extraplanetary presence. The ISS constitutes a unique living space—a sociotechnical arrangement that encloses humans and nonhumans in a highly regu…
Extra-planetary mobilities and the media prospects of virtual space tourism
This paper responds to the emergence, proliferation and increasing relevance of various forms of virtual tourism set in outer space. It approaches virtual space tours as a distinct register of the changing nature of travel within global media cultures in their space age, framing them as a part of the ongoing socio-technical momentum of our emerging ‘extra-planetary mobilities’. We consider the extraterrestrial provisions of virtual tourism, inclu…
Mooring a Space Station: Media Infrastructure and the Inhuman Environment
Katarina Damjanov and David Crouch invite us to consider the International Space Station as a media infrastructure intimately linked to Earth through material and signal traffic
Extreme VR: Strategies of Sensorial Immersion and the Intensities of Experience
A range of VR products offer a variety of "extreme" experiences, providing their users with access to numerous unforgiving environments and confronting situations. This paper explores how they intensify and extend the medium's capacity for interfering in and imposing upon individual and collective perception and sensation. It locates "extreme VR" within a genealogy of the medium's own preoccupation with sensorial intensities, exploring its potent…
Commodity and the commons: Accumulations of Capital on the Space Frontier
Designated as one of the global commons, outer space steadily matures as a commodity frontier at which to propel the designs and imaginaries of capitalist economy. While plans to mine the Moon, massify space tourism and colonise Mars are still works in development, the routes of its conquest expand exponentially down here on Earth, as its spectacular proceedings are mediated into a range of images, events, artefacts, samples, and experiences that…
Powering wicked futures: EV batteries as vital matters of care
A defining component of electric vehicles, batteries also prominently feature in popular discourses surrounding EV adoption. In Australia, like elsewhere, responses to EV batteries are symptomatic of biopolitical desires and anxieties surrounding the ongoing entanglements of technology, society and environment, which cast lithium-ion batteries as a wicked problem of transitioning to green automobilities, at once supporting and hindering its proce…
Unearthing extraction: Media infrastructure and the more-than planetary mine
Media infrastructures sustain the evolving cultures of extraction. Their unfolding propels the quest for raw materials across the bounty of the natural and social world, from the excavations of coal and gold to wind and server farming, data and cryptocurrency mining and varied other exploitative approaches to resource-taking and value-making. To highlight how the strategic development of media infrastructures aligns the drive for extraction aroun…
Sociology (8 works) · Space exploration and regulation (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Astrobiology (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works)