A Universe to Gain: Posthuman Ufology and the Construction of a Radical Cosmic Subject By Noemi Purkrábková and Jiří Sirůček

https://www.academia.edu/80993110/A_Universe_to_Gain_Posthuman_Ufology_and_the_Construction_of_a_Radical_Cosmic_Subject?rhid=41181062833&swp=rr-rw-wc-2395018&nav_from=0a59f098-a27d-46e6-af2f-60005759fafa "In the second half of the 1990s, a group of Italian artists, part of the larger “Luther Blissett” community making media pranks, hacker attacks and other sorts of conspiracies, formed the “Men in Red” project. Inspired by the thinking of Dante Minazzoli and UFO-themed films of the decade, such as Star Trek, Independence Day or Men in Black, they pursued to spread ideas of so-called “radical ufology.” Melding beliefs in an encounter with intelligent extraterrestrial life together with Marxism or the leftist theory of Antonio Negri and Giorgio Agamben, they developed the concept of “exoplanetarism” – an openness to “autonomous contact” with an “absolute, unconditional, non-codified alterity.” This search for radical otherness was of course not simply about looking for the “little green men,” but was attempting, following Minazzoli or Argentine Trotskyist Juan Posadas, to rescue the UFO (imagination) from mere interpretation of external distant phenomenon and turn it into a “vehicle of change” for the world." ...