Starry Skies Moving Away

Early in the third millennium, Al Gore's film, 'An Inconvenient Truth,' raised awareness of global warming via space age utopianism that mapped the fate of civilization upon the starry skies. From Plato and Ptolemy, to Kant and Newton, to Kubrick and Serling, there has been profound human desire to situate human destiny amidst the starry skies. But just what is our cosmic fate -- spaceship earth or planet of apes, space odyssey or cyberspace, no exit or twilight zone -- in a universe of the big bang, with the starry skies moving away?

Starry Skies Moving Away is the third book in the THEORY ZERO series, published by Theory Vortex Experiments. Jean Baudrillard said that theory -- if it is to be salvaged after 9/11 and in the new millennium -- could be reconstructed on the 'theme of zero.' Drawing from art, media, science, and philosophy, this book series by Barry Vacker uses zero as countdown and blastoff for theorizing the existential conditions of postmillennial culture. And here is the key question -- are any models for a future utopia possible after the three zeros of 2000?