Anti-Astrotropik (AA)

Anti-Astrotropik is a filmmaking collective tracing the entanglements of outer space, empire, technology, extraction, and resistance across the tropics. The collective was formed in Singapore as part of a PhD project entitled "Singapore in Space: Traces of an Emergent Astropolitics" exploring the ways in which “Singapore in space” and the National Space Agency of Singapore were being narrated by different groups in ways that might be considered an emergent astropolitics beyond the leading (post-)cold war space powers, and forms of sovereign autonomy-making and resistance within the expanded (extra)terrestrial canvas. The project (which is ongoing) draws on the fields of space history, political geography, and postcolonial Science and Technology Studies. For more, please see: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/sjtg.70065.