ABSTRACT

In 2017, the government of Dubai announced plans to create the first human settlement on Mars within one hundred years. This article considers how the ‘Mars 2117’ project and its Earth-bound beta tests represent an increasingly global and vanguard relationship to the materials we call nature, where the goal of politics is about making a new kind of habitat rather than the creation of a polis. Mars 2117 reveals the ways in which the present grounds for authoritarian legitimacy in the UAE are, in effect, on loan, for which the future functions as a form of collateral for its present day governance structure, and is hedged upon the engineered anticipation of a people, a place, and an infrastructure to come. Anticipatory authoritarianism names a form of authority being innovated to skip over political contradictions and environmental limits caused by the feedback between peak oil and irreversible climate change.

摘要

2017年，迪拜政府宣布计划在一百年内在火星上建立第一个人类住区。本文考虑了“火星2117”项目及其与地球相关的beta测试如何与我们称为自然的材料之间日益形成全球性和先锋性关系，其中政治目标是创造一种新的栖息地，而不是创造一个新的栖息地。波利斯。火星2117揭示了借用阿联酋目前的专制合法性基础的方式，借以将未来作为其当今治理结构的一种抵押形式，并以对资产负债表的预期为由进行套期保值。人员，地点和基础设施。