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2025-03-30T01:07:57Z

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Azua-Bustos, A., Benford, J., Boss, A.P., Brin, D., Dartnell, L.R., Davies, P.C.W., Davis, M.M., Dyson, G., Edmondson, W.H., Forgan, D.H., Gertz, J., Herzing, D.L., Howard, A.W., Walker, S.I., Korpela, E.J., Liszt, H.S., Maccone, C., Marcy, G.W., Michaud, M., Musk, E., O’Brien, T.J., Prix, R., Rummel, J.D., Siemion, A.P.V., Stone, R.P.S., Walkowicz, L.M., Werthimer, D., Wright, S.A. 2015. “Regarding Messaging to Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI) / Active Searches for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Active SETI).” Accessed May 19, 2018. [setiathome.berkeley.edu/meti_statement_0.html](https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/meti_statement_0.html)

Banks, Iain M. 1988. *The Player of Games.* Orbit; London.

Barr, Marleen S. 1992. *Feminist Fabulation: Space/Postmodern Fiction*. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.

Battaglia, Debbora, David Valentine, and Valerie Olson. 2015. *“[Relational Spaces: An Earthly Installation](https://journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/article/view/ca30.2.07/244).” Cultural Anthropology 30 (2): 245–56. [doi.org/10.14506/ca30.2.07](http://doi.org/10.14506/ca30.2.07)*

Bawaka Country, Wright, S., Suchet-Pearson, S., Lloyd K., Burarrwanga, L., Ganambarr, R., Ganambarr-Stubbs, M., Ganambarr, B., Maymuru, D. 2015. Working with and learning from Country: decentring human author-ity. *cultural geographies* 22, 2: 269–283

Berea, Anamaria et al. “The Social Sciences Interdisciplinarity for Astronomy and Astrophysics -- Lessons from the History of NASA and Related Fields.” *arXiv: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics* (2019)

Boellstorff, Tom, and Cymene Howe. 2015. “‘Queer Futures.’ Fieldsights - Theorizing the Contemporary.” Cultural Anthropology Online. July 21, 2015. [www.culanth.org/fieldsights/709-queer-futures](http://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/709-queer-futures)

Bostrom, Nick, Thomas Douglas, Anders Sandberg. 2016. “The Unilateralist’s Curse and the Case for a Principle of Conformity”, *Social Epistemology* 2016 July 3 30(4): 350-371. [doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2015.1108373](https://doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2015.1108373)

Cabrol, Nathalie A. 2016. “Alien Mindscapes—A Perspective on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.” *Astrobiology* 16 (9): 661–76. [doi.org/10.1089/ast.2016.1536](https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2016.1536)

Capova, Klara Anna. 2013. “The Charming Science of the Other: The Cultural Analysis of the Scientific Search for Life beyond Earth.” Ph.D. Dissertation in Anthropology, Durham University.

Capova, Klara Anna. 2013. “[The Detection of Extraterrestrial Life: Are We Ready?](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-35983-5_14)” In Astrobiology, History, and Society, edited by Douglas A. Vakoch, 271–81. Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Cornum, Lou Catherine. 2015. “The Space NDN’s Star Map.” The New Inquiry. January 26, 2015. https://thenewinquiry.com/the-space-ndns-star-map/.

Denning, Kathryn. 2010. “Unpacking the Great Transmission Debate.” *Acta Astronautica* 67 (11): 1399–1405. [doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2010.02.024](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2010.02.024)

Denning, Kathryn. 2011. “[Is Life What We Make of It?](http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/369/1936/669)” *Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences* 369 (1936): 669–678.

Denning, Kathryn. 2011b. “Ten Thousand Revolutions: Conjectures about Civilizations.” *Acta Astronautica* 68 (3): 381–388. [doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2009.11.019](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2009.11.019)

Denning, Kathryn. 2013. “Impossible Predictions of the Unprecedented: Analogy, History, and the Work of Prognostication.” In [*Astrobiology, History, and Society*](https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783642359828), edited by Douglas A. Vakoch, 301–12. Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Denning, Kathryn. 2014. “Learning To Read: Interstellar Message Decipherment from Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives.” In *Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication*, edited by Douglas A Vakoch, 95–112. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Communications, History Program Office.

Denning, Kathryn. 2017. “[Hawking Says That Discovering Intelligent Life Elsewhere Would Spark Greater Compassion and Humility among Us … But Why Wait?](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14746700.2017.1299382)” *Theology and Science* 15 (2): 142–46. https://doi.org/10.1080/14746700.2017.1299382.

Denning, Kathryn. 2018. “[How humans matter now: the relevances of anthropology and archaeology for the new SETI](https://daiworkshop.seti.org/sites/default/files/workshop-2018/Denning%20-%20How%20Humans%20Matter%20Now%20-%20The%20Relevance%20of%20Anthropology%20and%20Archaeology%20for.pdf).” White paper for “Decoding Alien Intelligence.” SETI Institute; Mountain View, California. 16 March.

Denning, Kathryn, and Lori Marino. 2008. “Session 20. Getting Smarter About Intelligence.” *Astrobiology* 8 (2): 389–91. [doi.org/10.1089/ast.2008.1244](https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2008.1244)

Ensor, Sarah. 2017. “Queer Fallout Samuel R. Delany and the Ecology of Cruising.” Environmental Humanities 9 (1): 149–66. [doi.org/10.1215/22011919-3829172](https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-3829172)

Dick, Steven. 2013 **The Societal Impact of Extraterrestrial Life: The Relevance of History and the Social Sciences**

Esvelt, Kevin, and Neil Gemmell. 2017. Conservation demands safe gene drive. PLOS Biology 16 Nov 2017. DOI: [doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2003850](https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2003850)

Fabian, Johannes. 2014 [1983]. *Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object*. New York: Columbia University Press.

Farman, Abou. 2012. “Re-Enchantment Cosmologies: Mastery and Obsolescence in an Intelligent Universe.” *Anthropological Quarterly* 85 (4): 1069–88. DOI: [doi.org/10.1353/anq.2012.0055](https://doi.org/10.1353/anq.2012.0055)

Farman, Abou. 2016. “Cosmos.” *Cultural Anthropology* Website, Theorizing the Contemporary, January. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/793-cosmos.

Franklin, Sarah. 1995. "Science as Culture, Cultures of Science." *Annual Review of Anthropology* 24: 163-184.

Gilman, Carolyn Ives. 1998. *Halfway Human*. New York: Avon.

Gilman, Carolyn Ives. 2015. *Dark Orbit*. New York: Tor.

Gorman, Alice. 2005. “The Cultural Landscape of Interplanetary Space.” Journal of Social Archaeology 5 (1): 85–107. [doi.org/10.1177/1469605305050148](https://doi.org/10.1177/1469605305050148)

Gorman, Alice. 2016. “Culture on the Moon: Bodies in Time and Space.” Archaeologies 12 (1): 110–28. [doi.org/10.1007/s11759-015-9286-7](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11759-015-9286-7)

Haraway, Donna Jeanne. 2013. “SF: Science Fiction, Speculative Fabulation, String Figures, So Far.” *Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology,* no. 3 (November).

Harding, Sandra. G. 1991. *Whose science? Whose knowledge?: Thinking from women's lives*. Ithaca, N.Y, Cornell University Press.

Helmreich, Stefan. 2006. “The Signature of Life: Designing the Astrobiological Imagination.” *Grey Room*, no. 23: 66–95. [doi.org/10.1162/grey.2006.1.23.66](https://doi.org/10.1162/grey.2006.1.23.66)

Helmreich, Stefan. 2009. *Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas*. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Helmreich, Stefan. 2011. “[What Was Life? Answers from Three Limit Biologies.](https://anthropology.mit.edu/sites/default/files/documents/helmreich_what_was_life.pdf)” *Critical Inquiry* 37 (4): 671–96. https://doi.org/10.1086/660987.

Helmreich, Stefan. 2012. “[Extraterrestrial Relativism](http://anthropology.mit.edu/sites/default/files/documents/helmreich_extraterrestrial_relativism.pdf).” *Anthropological Quarterly* 85 (4): 1125–39.

Helmreich, Stefan. 2014. “Remixing the Voyager Interstellar Record Or, As Extraterrestrials Might Listen.” *Journal of Sonic Studies* 8. [www.researchcatalogue.net/view/109536/109537](https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/109536/109537)

Helmreich, Stefan. 2017. “[A Wrinkle in Space](https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/9/2/300/133019/ForewordA-Wrinkle-in-Space).” *Environmental Humanities* 9 (2): 300–308. [doi.org/10.1215/22011919-4215306](https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-4215306)

Holbraad, Martin. “The Shapes of Relations: Anthropology as Conceptual Morphology.” *Philosophy of the Social Sciences* 50 (2020): 495 - 522.

Ingold, T. 2000. *The perception of the environment: essays on livelihood, dwelling and skill.* London: Routledge.

Ingold, T. and Gatt, C. (2013). From description to correspondence: Anthropology in real time, in Gunn, W, etc. 139-158.

Kirksey, S. Eben, and Stefan Helmreich. 2010. “The Emergence of Multispecies Ethnography.” *Cultural Anthropology* 25 (4): 545–76. [doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1360.2010.01069.x](https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1360.2010.01069.x)

Kohn, Eduardo O. 2015. “Anthropology of Ontologies.” Annual Review of Anthropology 44 (1): null. [doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102214-014127](https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102214-014127)

Lachmann, M. M.E.J. Newman, and C. Moore. 2004. “The Physical Limits of Communication, or Why Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology Is Indistinguishable from Noise.” *American Journal of Physics* 72: 1290–1293: [tuvalu.santafe.edu/~moore/ajp.pdf](http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~moore/ajp.pdf)

Le Guin, Ursula K. 1972. *The Word for World Is Forest*. New York: Berkley.

Le Guin, Ursula K. 1974. *The Dispossessed*. New York: HarperCollins.

Lempert, William. 2014. “[Decolonizing Encounters of the Third Kind: Alternative Futuring in Native Science Fiction Film](https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/var.12046).” *VAR Visual Anthropology Review* 30 (2):164–76. [doi.org/10.1111/var.12046](https://doi.org/10.1111/var.12046)

Lowrie, Ian. 2013. “Cultural Resources and Cognitive Frames: Keys to an Anthropological Approach to Prediction.” in D. Vakoch, ed. *Astrobiology, History, and Society: Life Beyond Earth and the Impact of Discovery.* Springer. 259-270. [doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35983-5_13](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35983-5_13)

Marino, L. 1995. “SETI Begins at Home: Searching for Terrestrial Intelligence.” In *Progress in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life*, Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, Volume 74, edited by Seth Shostak, 74:73–81. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

Messeri, Lisa. 2016. *Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds.* Duke University Press.

Messeri, Lisa. 2017a. “Resonant Worlds: Cultivating Proximal Encounters in Planetary Science.” *American Ethnologist* 44 (1): 131–42. [doi.org/10.1111/amet.12431](https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12431)

Messeri, Lisa. 2017b. “Gestures of Cosmic Relation and the Search for Another Earth.” *Environmental Humanities* 9 (2): 325–40. [doi.org/10.1215/22011919-4215325](https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-4215325)

Millán, José Antonio, Rosalba Bonaccorsi, Sheri Wells-Jensen, Douglas A. Vakoch, and Michael P. Oman-Reagan. 2018. “[Xenolinguistics](https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/xenolinguistics-5623).” *Diaphanes*, April 10, 2018. [www.diaphanes.net/titel/xenolinguistics-5623](https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/xenolinguistics-5623)

Oman-Reagan, Michael P. 2016. “[Our Living Message for Extraterrestrials](https://www.sapiens.org/column/wanderers/messaging-to-extraterrestrial-intelligence).” *SAPIENS*, April 19, 2016. [www.sapiens.org/column/wanderers/messaging-to-extraterrestrial-intelligence](https://www.sapiens.org/column/wanderers/messaging-to-extraterrestrial-intelligence)

Oman-Reagan, Michael P. 2017. “[How to Host an Extraterrestrial](https://www.sapiens.org/column/wanderers/extraterrestrial-hospitality).” *SAPIENS*, February 7, 2017. [www.sapiens.org/column/wanderers/extraterrestrial-hospitality](https://www.sapiens.org/column/wanderers/extraterrestrial-hospitality)

Oman-Reagan, Michael P., 2017. “[Unfolding the Space Between Stars: Anthropology of the Interstellar](https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/r4ghb/).” *SocArXiv*. February 21.[doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/R4GHB](https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/R4GHB)

Oman-Reagan, Michael P. 2017. [https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/mpyk6/ "Queering Outer Space"]. ''SocArXiv''. August 18. [https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/MPYK6 doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/MPYK6]

Oman-Reagan, Michael P. 2018. [https://daiworkshop.seti.org/sites/default/files/workshop-2018/Oman-Reagan%20-%20Conceptualizing%20Difference%20in%20SETI%20-%20Xenoanthropological%20Theory%20and%20Methods_0.pdf "Conceptualizing Difference in SETI: Xenoanthropological Theory and Methods"]. White paper for "Decoding Alien Intelligence." SETI Institute; Mountain View, California. March 16. [https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/WHG93 doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/WHG93]

Oman-Reagan, Michael P. 2018. [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-artificial-intelligence-help-find-alien-intelligence/ "Can Artificial Intelligence Help Find Alien Intelligence?"]. ''Scientific American''. May 12. (Re-published from [https://theconversation.com/can-artificial-intelligence-help-find-alien-intelligence-94375 The Conversation])

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Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria. 2011. “Matters of Care in Technoscience: Assembling Neglected Things.” *Social Studies of Science* 41 (1): 85–106. [doi.org/10.1177/0306312710380301](https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312710380301)

Race, Margaret & Denning, Kathryn & Bertka, Constance & Dick, Steven & Harrison, Albert & Impey, Chris & Mancinelli, Rocco. (2012). Astrobiology and Society: Building an Interdisciplinary Research Community. Astrobiology. 12. 958-65. 10.1089/ast.2011.0723.

[Salazar](https://www.routledge.com/search?author=Juan%20Francisco%20Salazar), [Juan Francisco](https://www.routledge.com/search?author=Juan%20Francisco%20Salazar) and [Alice Gorman](https://www.routledge.com/search?author=Alice%20Gorman) (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Social Studies of Outer Space. Routledge 2023

Tarter, Jill, John Rummel, Andrew Siemion, Martin Rees, Claudio Maccone, and Greg Hellbourg. 2018. “Three Versions of the Third Law: Technosignatures and Astrobiology.” In *Astrobiology Science Strategy for the Search for Life in the Universe*. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Traphagan, John W. 2010. “[Ritual, Meaningfulness, and Interstellar Message Construction](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009457651000202X).” *Acta Astronautica* 67 (7–8): 954–960. [doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2010.06.011](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2010.06.011)

Traphagan, John W. 2014. “Culture and Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence.” In [*Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication*](https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/archaeology_anthropology_and_interstellar_communication.html), edited by Douglas A Vakoch, 161–74. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Communications, History Program Office.

Traphagan, John W. 2014. “Anthropology at a Distance: SETI and the Production of Knowledge in the Encounter with an Extraterrestrial Other.” In [*Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication*](https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/archaeology_anthropology_and_interstellar_communication.html), edited by Douglas A Vakoch, 131–42. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Communications, History Program Office.

Traphagan, John W. 2015. [*Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Imagination: SETI at the Intersection of Science, Religion, and Culture*](https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319105505). Space and Society. Cham; New York: Springer International Publishing.

Traphagan, John. 2016. [*Science, Culture and the Search for Life on Other Worlds*](https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319417448). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Traphagan, John W. 2017. “Do No Harm? Cultural Imperialism and the Ethics of Active SETI.” *Journal of the British Interplanetary Society* 70: 219-224.

Traphagan, John W. (in press) “[Cargo Cults and the Ethics of Active SETI](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0265964618300201).” *Space Policy.* Accessed May 12, 2018. [doi.org/10.1016/j.spacepol.2018.04.001](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spacepol.2018.04.001).

Tutton, Richard. “Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Techno-Optimism: Examining Outer Space Utopias of Silicon Valley.” *Science as Culture* 30 (2020): 416 - 439.

Valentine, David, Valerie A. Olson, and Debbora Battaglia. 2009. “Encountering the Future: Anthropology and Outer Space.” *Anthropology News* 50 (9): 11–15. [doi.org/10.1111/j.1556-3502.2009.50911.x](https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1556-3502.2009.50911.x)

Valentine, David. 2016. “Atmosphere: Context, Detachment, and the View from above Earth.” American Ethnologist 43 (3): 511–24. [doi.org/10.1111/amet.12343](https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12343)

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Denning, Kathryn. 2014. *“Learning To Read: Interstellar Message Decipherment from Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives.”* In Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication, edited by Douglas A Vakoch, 95–112. Washington, DC: NASA*.*

Vakoch, D. (Editor) 2014a. [*Archaeology, anthropology, and interstellar communication*](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/archaeology_anthropology_and_interstellar_communication_tagged.pdf). Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Communications, History Program Office.

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Wells-Jensen, Sheri. 2017. “The Brailliens: Rethinking Science from the Perspective of the ‘Blind alien’.” Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, California, October.

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Wright, Jason T., and Michael P. Oman-Reagan. 2018. “Visions of Human Futures in Space and SETI.” *International Journal of Astrobiology* 17 (2): 177–88. [doi.org/10.1017/S1473550417000222](https://doi.org/10.1017/S1473550417000222)

Anthropology, Social Sciences and Outer Space Studies

2025-03-30T01:03:40Z

SASam:

Azua-Bustos, A., Benford, J., Boss, A.P., Brin, D., Dartnell, L.R., Davies, P.C.W., Davis, M.M., Dyson, G., Edmondson, W.H., Forgan, D.H., Gertz, J., Herzing, D.L., Howard, A.W., Walker, S.I., Korpela, E.J., Liszt, H.S., Maccone, C., Marcy, G.W., Michaud, M., Musk, E., O’Brien, T.J., Prix, R., Rummel, J.D., Siemion, A.P.V., Stone, R.P.S., Walkowicz, L.M., Werthimer, D., Wright, S.A. 2015. “Regarding Messaging to Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI) / Active Searches for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Active SETI).” Accessed May 19, 2018. [setiathome.berkeley.edu/meti_statement_0.html](https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/meti_statement_0.html)

Banks, Iain M. 1988. *The Player of Games.* Orbit; London.

Barr, Marleen S. 1992. *Feminist Fabulation: Space/Postmodern Fiction*. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.

Battaglia, Debbora, David Valentine, and Valerie Olson. 2015. *“[Relational Spaces: An Earthly Installation](https://journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/article/view/ca30.2.07/244).” Cultural Anthropology 30 (2): 245–56. [doi.org/10.14506/ca30.2.07](http://doi.org/10.14506/ca30.2.07)*

Bawaka Country, Wright, S., Suchet-Pearson, S., Lloyd K., Burarrwanga, L., Ganambarr, R., Ganambarr-Stubbs, M., Ganambarr, B., Maymuru, D. 2015. Working with and learning from Country: decentring human author-ity. *cultural geographies* 22, 2: 269–283

Berea, Anamaria et al. “The Social Sciences Interdisciplinarity for Astronomy and Astrophysics -- Lessons from the History of NASA and Related Fields.” *arXiv: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics* (2019)

Boellstorff, Tom, and Cymene Howe. 2015. “‘Queer Futures.’ Fieldsights - Theorizing the Contemporary.” Cultural Anthropology Online. July 21, 2015. [www.culanth.org/fieldsights/709-queer-futures](http://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/709-queer-futures)

Bostrom, Nick, Thomas Douglas, Anders Sandberg. 2016. “The Unilateralist’s Curse and the Case for a Principle of Conformity”, *Social Epistemology* 2016 July 3 30(4): 350-371. [doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2015.1108373](https://doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2015.1108373)

Cabrol, Nathalie A. 2016. “Alien Mindscapes—A Perspective on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.” *Astrobiology* 16 (9): 661–76. [doi.org/10.1089/ast.2016.1536](https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2016.1536)

Capova, Klara Anna. 2013. “The Charming Science of the Other: The Cultural Analysis of the Scientific Search for Life beyond Earth.” Ph.D. Dissertation in Anthropology, Durham University.

Capova, Klara Anna. 2013. “[The Detection of Extraterrestrial Life: Are We Ready?](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-35983-5_14)” In Astrobiology, History, and Society, edited by Douglas A. Vakoch, 271–81. Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Cornum, Lou Catherine. 2015. “The Space NDN’s Star Map.” The New Inquiry. January 26, 2015. https://thenewinquiry.com/the-space-ndns-star-map/.

Denning, Kathryn. 2010. “Unpacking the Great Transmission Debate.” *Acta Astronautica* 67 (11): 1399–1405. [doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2010.02.024](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2010.02.024)

Denning, Kathryn. 2011. “[Is Life What We Make of It?](http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/369/1936/669)” *Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences* 369 (1936): 669–678.

Denning, Kathryn. 2011b. “Ten Thousand Revolutions: Conjectures about Civilizations.” *Acta Astronautica* 68 (3): 381–388. [doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2009.11.019](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2009.11.019)

Denning, Kathryn. 2013. “Impossible Predictions of the Unprecedented: Analogy, History, and the Work of Prognostication.” In [*Astrobiology, History, and Society*](https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783642359828), edited by Douglas A. Vakoch, 301–12. Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Denning, Kathryn. 2014. “Learning To Read: Interstellar Message Decipherment from Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives.” In *Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication*, edited by Douglas A Vakoch, 95–112. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Communications, History Program Office.

Denning, Kathryn. 2017. “[Hawking Says That Discovering Intelligent Life Elsewhere Would Spark Greater Compassion and Humility among Us … But Why Wait?](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14746700.2017.1299382)” *Theology and Science* 15 (2): 142–46. https://doi.org/10.1080/14746700.2017.1299382.

Denning, Kathryn. 2018. “[How humans matter now: the relevances of anthropology and archaeology for the new SETI](https://daiworkshop.seti.org/sites/default/files/workshop-2018/Denning%20-%20How%20Humans%20Matter%20Now%20-%20The%20Relevance%20of%20Anthropology%20and%20Archaeology%20for.pdf).” White paper for “Decoding Alien Intelligence.” SETI Institute; Mountain View, California. 16 March.

Denning, Kathryn, and Lori Marino. 2008. “Session 20. Getting Smarter About Intelligence.” *Astrobiology* 8 (2): 389–91. [doi.org/10.1089/ast.2008.1244](https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2008.1244)

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