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定居点。本文考虑了“火星 2117”项目及其在地球上的 Beta 测试如何代表与我们称为自然的材料之间日益全球化和先锋的关系，其中政治的目标是创造一种新的栖息地，而不是创造一个城邦。火星 2117 揭示了阿联酋目前的威权合法性基础实际上是借用的方式，未来作为其当前治理结构的一种抵押品，并在设计的预期下对冲未来的人、地方和基础设施。