![]() On the 25th anniversary of its publication, a new edition of this foundational work on human geography. This discourse is, and always has been, as Henri Lefebvre (1991) suggests, a conflict-between those who plan, shape, control, imagine, and inhabit these spaces. The Expanse is a discourse of spatial modernities. The show then subjects its fictional future to a series of calamitous changes to reify that disruption and transformation are the essential characteristics of modern space. I argue that The Expanse depicts a future still rooted in modernity to explore how humans produce and are produced by modern social space. ![]() The Expanse’s characters, especially its main protagonists on the Rocinante, enact this struggle, searching and fighting for places where they can make a home or feel at home while the space around them is reinvented and reimagined after the discovery of the Protomolecule, an alien substance that functions as a new technology that drives modernity. This is the Churn, at the heart of all six seasons of The Expanse and the series of books the show is adapted from. The Churn is then the “maelstrom of perpetual disintegration and renewal, of struggle and contradiction, of ambiguity and anguish” (Berman 1988, 15) that Berman understands modernity to be, processes we must negotiate-experiences, as Clive Bloom suggests, of “ambivalence and contradiction” (1994, 5). In All That is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity, Marshall Berman invites us to “think of modernism as a struggle to make ourselves at home in a constantly changing world” (1988, 6). While Amos likens it to a natural process, the death and rebirth of a jungle, what he is really observing is a mode of human-driven modernity, a process of constant change. The “Churn” indicates the central conceit of the setting. Amos does not know it yet, but the “Churn” will not only change the people and politics of human space but also the space itself: moons will be destroyed, the surfaces of Earth and Venus will be irrevocably altered, and a new structure will assemble itself in orbit beyond Neptune, offering gateways to distant planets-a huge expansion of navigable space. ![]() Source: archiveofourown.As the heroes of the television series The Expanse race aboard their salvaged warship, The Rocinante, to uncover the secret that has brought twenty-fourth century humanity to the brink of war, their mechanic, Amos Burton (Wes Chatham), remarks, “we’re just caught in the Churn, that’s all … When the jungle tears itself down and turns into something new” (“Windmills”). ![]() Relationships: Amos Burton/Praxidike Meng, Jim Holden/Naomi NagataĬharacters: Amos Burton, Praxidike Meng, Naomi Nagata, Jim Holden (The Expanse), Teresa DuarteĪdditional Tags: Tiamat’s Wrath, Tiamat’s Wrath spoilers, oh lord SO MANY SPOILERS, Major character death - Freeform, Sort Of, look i don’t make the rules prax should just be with amos all the time ok, longest camping trip ever, Thanks to A C Doyle for the title, Teenage rebellion ruins everything, and then saves the day later on, some mild gore i guess, Established RelationshipĪmos and Prax go undercover in enemy territory to break Holden out of prison. Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Major Character Death Fandom: The Expanse (TV), The Expanse Series - James S.
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