The Spatialities of Radio Astronomy by Trangos Guy;

Author:Trangos, Guy;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ARCHITECTURE/General, ARCHITECTURE/Buildings/Public, Commercial & Industrial, ARCHITECTURE/Reference, SCIENCE/Astronomy, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING/Industrial Design/General
ISBN: 9781000869651
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2023-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

4 Territories of Emptiness

DOI: 10.4324/9781003328353-4

Radio telescope sites are designed to facilitate and ease scientific knowledge production. As I’ve shown in the preceding chapter, these places are the product of substantial human effort, significant investment, dogged determination, national interest, and scientific advancement. These processes are not only concentrated on a single project or site. They concurrently expand and extend across geographic space and time. Through their physical concentration in space, these many scientific, technological, political, economic, and social processes find effective resolution in the object of the radio telescope and co-construct its iconic image, technological wonderment, and perhaps its radical contextual detachment like a fortress on a hilltop. These processes are also highly networked phenomena. They reach across ‘empty’ landscapes and connect the periphery to the centre. They enfold and transform space, reshape historical land use patterns, and forever alter the social heritage of these landscapes.

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