Brad Tabas
Biographic Data
| ID | 829326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brad Tabas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brad |
| FAMILY NAME | Tabas |
| SIGNATURE | TABAS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | École nationale supérieure de techniques avancées Bretagne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0156-8389 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Nothing to report: Moral and pedagogical reflections from a voyage into engineering curricula for Sustainable Development Goals
This essay chronicles the intellectual voyage of an ordinary language philosopher within a European Union-funded project (A-STEP 2030) using quantitative social science methods to define sustainability competencies for engineering education. Thinking through the standard ‘lit review’ and expert-validation procedures, it explores the philosophical and pedagogical perplexities emergent from arrogating a right to claim to know how to educate coming …
On cosmic injustices: Critical thinking, outer space, green values, and capitalist ideologies in a planetary age
It may seem obvious that the interests of social justice should always align with environmental justice on a limited planet Earth. Unfortunately, this is far from the case in practice, even in the Anthropocene. This essay provides a new cognitive mapping of how ideologically charged discourse splits the interests of people and planet. It offers a pragmatic, semantic, and spatial analysis of how arguments for planetary protection can infelicitousl…
The Silent Teacher: Aesthetic Education According to Ursula K. Le Guin
What is the pedagogical place of silence in the Anthropocene classroom? Should we as teachers—particularly as teachers involved in the education of aesthetic sensibilities—understand our classrooms as sites in which awareness of our Anthropocene predicament is spread, sites in which a general sense of the urgency of our times is disseminated? And is this awareness not best spread via explicit facts and data, the key story of climate change and bi…
L’espace extra-atmosphérique en nous: Le langage ordinaire et le souci des Communs extraterrestres
Cet essai propose deux concepts pour penser ce que les terriens partagent avec l’Espace : le biais terrestre et le paysage nocturne. L’objectif de ces concepts, et de cet article, est d’explorer les manières dont les changements dans notre langage ordinaire peuvent être utilisés pour faire comprendre l’importance de la protection des biens communs de l’espace. Nos façons habituelles de parler de l’Espace parfois nous donnent l’impression que l’Es…
Earth and Heaven in American Poetry: An Essay in Astrocriticism
Cet essai présente l’astrocritique, une théorie critique et une posture herméneutique visant à penser la politique culturelle de la nouvelle ère spatiale. Il se concentre particulièrement sur le thème de la musique céleste dans l’astroculture américaine, proposant des lectures de Thoreau, Lovecraft, Crase et Smith. On comprend mal la culture américaine, voire la culture anthropocène, sans parvenir à reconnaître que l’expérience américaine est ali…
Earth and Heaven in American Poetry: An Essay in Astrocriticism
Planetary Conversation: A Multidisciplinary Discussion about Ethnography and the Planetary
International audience
The Outer Space Inside Us: Ordinary Language and the Care for the Extraterrestrial Commons
This essay introduces two concepts for thinking about what earthlings have in common with outer space: terrestrial bias and the nightscape. The aim of these concepts, and this paper, is to explore ways in which shifts in our ordinary language can be used to bring home the importance of protecting the outer space commons, with a particular focus on the orbital commons. This focus on orbital space stems from the fact that it is orbital space that n…
To] the last [be] human: Against the New Futurist case for space expansionism
This paper presents a critique of the ethical claims underwriting what it calls the New Futurism. The New Futurists are a group of thinkers who are associated with Silicon Valley Dataism, and who, armed with Bayesian arguments, argue that it is morally imperative for humankind to colonize the solar system. This paper attacks not the general idea of humankind expanding into space, but this specific formulation of the argument for space expansionis…
Jusqu'au bout de l'humain: Critique raisonnée de l’expansionnisme spatial
Cet article présente une critique des revendications éthiques qui sous-tendent ce qu'il appelle le nouveau futurisme. L'auteur suggère (sans établir ni nier la possibilité de tels cas) que tout argument légitime en faveur de l'expansion de l'habitat humain au-delà de la planète devrait rester humain, c'est-à-dire qu'il devrait montrer la valeur éthique de l'expansion au-delà de la Terre en termes de qualité de vie qu'elle pourrait offrir à un nom…
Vers un futurisme réaliste
Plaud Cécile, Tabas Brad. Vers un futurisme réaliste. In: Diplômées, n°280-281, 2022. Futurs possibles. pp. 61-72
Futures labs: A space for pedagogies of responsible innovation
Lab spaces can teach STEM ethics by highlighting and creating opportunities to practice the four key dimensions of the AIRR framework of Responsible Innovation (RI): anticipation, inclusion, responsiveness, and reflexivity. In this paper, we introduce ‘Futures Labs’∼ as a pedagogical approach to train students in RI skills and encourage them to become aware of, and more concerned about, the broad social, political, ethical, and environmental dime…
On Earthlings and Aliens: Space Mining and the Challenge of Post-Planetary Ecocriticism
International audience
Hatred of the Earth, Climate Change, and the Dreams of Post-Planetary Culture
This text examines the effects of climate change on cultural ideas regarding the colonization of space. More specifically, this paper explores the ways which the looming danger of climate catastrophe has fueled the growth of post-planetary culture: a culture that dreams of a human destiny beyond the Earth. It takes as its object both science fiction texts and non-fiction futurological pronouncements by scientists and entrepreneurs. What emerges f…
Making Science, Making Scientists, Making Science Fiction: On the Co-Creation of Science and Science Fiction in the Social Imaginary
Most work on the relationship between science and science fiction focuses on how science fiction can advance science by speculatively elaborating scientific theories. This text, to the contrary, argues that we should understand some science fiction texts as contributing to the making of science as a social practice rather differently: namely by seeing them as a form of didactic literature which offers moral exempla to scientists or potential scie…
Dark Places: Ecology, Place, and the Metaphysics of Horror Fiction
Cet article traite de l’importance généralement minorée du roman d’horreur dans la réflexion sur la notion de lieu au sein de la pensée écocritique. Il observe la façon dont trois écrivains importants du roman d’horreur : Poe, Lovecraft, et VanderMeer, jouent avec notre compréhension de la notion du lieu tout en l’approfondissant. Contrairement à la plupart des éco-critiques, qui ne voient dans le roman d’horreur que des rapports très superficiel…
Blumenberg, Politics, Anthropology
In recent years, much attention has been given to the notion of political theology, while much less attention has been given to political anthropology. Yet the two terms beg to be thought together. What follows is an account of the political stakes involved in Hans Blumenberg's anthropology, a reading focused on themes that Blumenberg himself largely chose to leave inexplicit or esoteric, themes indicated via oblique nods at the concepts of other…
The Matter of Mind: Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Freedom in Madness: J. M. C oetzee and the P olitics of M adness
The author writes on the complexities in Coetzee's writing with regards to “freedom” and “madness.” Within this context, he also references the dualities in reading Coetzee's work
Dark Places: Ecology, Place, and the Metaphysics of Horror Fiction
Cet article traite de l’importance généralement minorée du roman d’horreur dans la réflexion sur la notion de lieu au sein de la pensée écocritique. Il observe la façon dont trois écrivains importants du roman d’horreur : Poe, Lovecraft, et VanderMeer, jouent avec notre compréhension de la notion du lieu tout en l’approfondissant. Contrairement à la plupart des éco-critiques, qui ne voient dans le roman d’horreur que des rapports très superficiel…
Hatred of the Earth, Climate Change, and the Dreams of Post-Planetary Culture
This text examines the effects of climate change on cultural ideas regarding the colonization of space. More specifically, this paper explores the ways which the looming danger of climate catastrophe has fueled the growth of post-planetary culture: a culture that dreams of a human destiny beyond the Earth. It takes as its object both science fiction texts and non-fiction futurological pronouncements by scientists and entrepreneurs. What emerges f…
On cosmic injustices: Critical thinking, outer space, green values, and capitalist ideologies in a planetary age
It may seem obvious that the interests of social justice should always align with environmental justice on a limited planet Earth. Unfortunately, this is far from the case in practice, even in the Anthropocene. This essay provides a new cognitive mapping of how ideologically charged discourse splits the interests of people and planet. It offers a pragmatic, semantic, and spatial analysis of how arguments for planetary protection can infelicitousl…
Blumenberg, Politics, Anthropology
In recent years, much attention has been given to the notion of political theology, while much less attention has been given to political anthropology. Yet the two terms beg to be thought together. What follows is an account of the political stakes involved in Hans Blumenberg's anthropology, a reading focused on themes that Blumenberg himself largely chose to leave inexplicit or esoteric, themes indicated via oblique nods at the concepts of other…
Freedom in Madness: J. M. C oetzee and the P olitics of M adness
The author writes on the complexities in Coetzee's writing with regards to “freedom” and “madness.” Within this context, he also references the dualities in reading Coetzee's work
Blumenberg, Politics, Anthropology
In recent years, much attention has been given to the notion of political theology, while much less attention has been given to political anthropology. Yet the two terms beg to be thought together. What follows is an account of the political stakes involved in Hans Blumenberg's anthropology, a reading focused on themes that Blumenberg himself largely chose to leave inexplicit or esoteric, themes indicated via oblique nods at the concepts of other…
The Matter of Mind: Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Dark Places: Ecology, Place, and the Metaphysics of Horror Fiction
Cet article traite de l’importance généralement minorée du roman d’horreur dans la réflexion sur la notion de lieu au sein de la pensée écocritique. Il observe la façon dont trois écrivains importants du roman d’horreur : Poe, Lovecraft, et VanderMeer, jouent avec notre compréhension de la notion du lieu tout en l’approfondissant. Contrairement à la plupart des éco-critiques, qui ne voient dans le roman d’horreur que des rapports très superficiel…
Making Science, Making Scientists, Making Science Fiction: On the Co-Creation of Science and Science Fiction in the Social Imaginary
Most work on the relationship between science and science fiction focuses on how science fiction can advance science by speculatively elaborating scientific theories. This text, to the contrary, argues that we should understand some science fiction texts as contributing to the making of science as a social practice rather differently: namely by seeing them as a form of didactic literature which offers moral exempla to scientists or potential scie…
Hatred of the Earth, Climate Change, and the Dreams of Post-Planetary Culture
This text examines the effects of climate change on cultural ideas regarding the colonization of space. More specifically, this paper explores the ways which the looming danger of climate catastrophe has fueled the growth of post-planetary culture: a culture that dreams of a human destiny beyond the Earth. It takes as its object both science fiction texts and non-fiction futurological pronouncements by scientists and entrepreneurs. What emerges f…
Vers un futurisme réaliste
Plaud Cécile, Tabas Brad. Vers un futurisme réaliste. In: Diplômées, n°280-281, 2022. Futurs possibles. pp. 61-72
Futures labs: A space for pedagogies of responsible innovation
Lab spaces can teach STEM ethics by highlighting and creating opportunities to practice the four key dimensions of the AIRR framework of Responsible Innovation (RI): anticipation, inclusion, responsiveness, and reflexivity. In this paper, we introduce ‘Futures Labs’∼ as a pedagogical approach to train students in RI skills and encourage them to become aware of, and more concerned about, the broad social, political, ethical, and environmental dime…
On Earthlings and Aliens: Space Mining and the Challenge of Post-Planetary Ecocriticism
International audience
Planetary Conversation: A Multidisciplinary Discussion about Ethnography and the Planetary
International audience
The Outer Space Inside Us: Ordinary Language and the Care for the Extraterrestrial Commons
This essay introduces two concepts for thinking about what earthlings have in common with outer space: terrestrial bias and the nightscape. The aim of these concepts, and this paper, is to explore ways in which shifts in our ordinary language can be used to bring home the importance of protecting the outer space commons, with a particular focus on the orbital commons. This focus on orbital space stems from the fact that it is orbital space that n…
To] the last [be] human: Against the New Futurist case for space expansionism
This paper presents a critique of the ethical claims underwriting what it calls the New Futurism. The New Futurists are a group of thinkers who are associated with Silicon Valley Dataism, and who, armed with Bayesian arguments, argue that it is morally imperative for humankind to colonize the solar system. This paper attacks not the general idea of humankind expanding into space, but this specific formulation of the argument for space expansionis…
Jusqu'au bout de l'humain: Critique raisonnée de l’expansionnisme spatial
Cet article présente une critique des revendications éthiques qui sous-tendent ce qu'il appelle le nouveau futurisme. L'auteur suggère (sans établir ni nier la possibilité de tels cas) que tout argument légitime en faveur de l'expansion de l'habitat humain au-delà de la planète devrait rester humain, c'est-à-dire qu'il devrait montrer la valeur éthique de l'expansion au-delà de la Terre en termes de qualité de vie qu'elle pourrait offrir à un nom…
The Silent Teacher: Aesthetic Education According to Ursula K. Le Guin
What is the pedagogical place of silence in the Anthropocene classroom? Should we as teachers—particularly as teachers involved in the education of aesthetic sensibilities—understand our classrooms as sites in which awareness of our Anthropocene predicament is spread, sites in which a general sense of the urgency of our times is disseminated? And is this awareness not best spread via explicit facts and data, the key story of climate change and bi…
L’espace extra-atmosphérique en nous: Le langage ordinaire et le souci des Communs extraterrestres
Cet essai propose deux concepts pour penser ce que les terriens partagent avec l’Espace : le biais terrestre et le paysage nocturne. L’objectif de ces concepts, et de cet article, est d’explorer les manières dont les changements dans notre langage ordinaire peuvent être utilisés pour faire comprendre l’importance de la protection des biens communs de l’espace. Nos façons habituelles de parler de l’Espace parfois nous donnent l’impression que l’Es…
Earth and Heaven in American Poetry: An Essay in Astrocriticism
Cet essai présente l’astrocritique, une théorie critique et une posture herméneutique visant à penser la politique culturelle de la nouvelle ère spatiale. Il se concentre particulièrement sur le thème de la musique céleste dans l’astroculture américaine, proposant des lectures de Thoreau, Lovecraft, Crase et Smith. On comprend mal la culture américaine, voire la culture anthropocène, sans parvenir à reconnaître que l’expérience américaine est ali…
Earth and Heaven in American Poetry: An Essay in Astrocriticism
Nothing to report: Moral and pedagogical reflections from a voyage into engineering curricula for Sustainable Development Goals
This essay chronicles the intellectual voyage of an ordinary language philosopher within a European Union-funded project (A-STEP 2030) using quantitative social science methods to define sustainability competencies for engineering education. Thinking through the standard ‘lit review’ and expert-validation procedures, it explores the philosophical and pedagogical perplexities emergent from arrogating a right to claim to know how to educate coming …
On cosmic injustices: Critical thinking, outer space, green values, and capitalist ideologies in a planetary age
It may seem obvious that the interests of social justice should always align with environmental justice on a limited planet Earth. Unfortunately, this is far from the case in practice, even in the Anthropocene. This essay provides a new cognitive mapping of how ideologically charged discourse splits the interests of people and planet. It offers a pragmatic, semantic, and spatial analysis of how arguments for planetary protection can infelicitousl…
Sociology (10 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works)