Limits of Peace
A Cleansing Violence
A More Human Future
11 Being Beltalowda
Patriotism and Nationalism According to Orwell
Drummer the Patriot, Marco the Nationalist
Offensive Versus Defensive Attitudes
Obsession
Indifference to Reality
Against Love of Nation
12 Anarchy in the OPA
“Every Breath You Take”
“Seek and Destroy”
“I Fought the Law”
More Inhuman than Human
“Sunday, Bloody vunday”
“Where Eagles Dare”
“3’s and 7’s”
“Personal Jesus”
“I Want to Conquer the World”
13 “Can’t We Try Something Else?” Is James Holden a Hero?
Filling Our Ears with Wax and Our Brains with Electromagnetic Waves
No Nature, No Nurture
Of Mother Born
Tilting at Windmills
13 Fourth Orbit: THEY STILL DREAM 14 “We had a garden and we paved it” The Expanse and the Philosophy of the Anthropocene The Anthropocene The Cascade The Anthropocentrism of the Anthropocene The Issue with Wanting to “Turn a lifeless rock into a garden” “We’re all in this together.” “That is a story” “Earthers, Martians—they see us as their possessions, animals” “Doing nothing is just as bad as doing the wrong thing” 15 We Can Be Gods “I wonder what that rain tastes like?” “If we master it, we can apply it” Detecting Stealth Ships “… hardly a rounding error” “What happens to us now?” 16 Gunnery Sergeant Draper and the Martian Congressional Republic’s Vision for Mars Revolutionary Revelations Nothing New in Orbit of the Sun Philosophy on the Martian Frontier It’s Life in the Solar System, Jim, But Not as We Know It
14 Fifth Orbit: TILTING AT WINDMILLS 17 How to Be a Hero Escaping the Monster of Ganymede Waddling Between Making and Doing Politics Be Mindful Not to Trip Over Your Own Foot Somewhere Beyond Inaros and Holden The Burden of the End of the World 18 The Lives of Naomi Nagata Intersectionality and Betrayal Belter Lives Matter? Knuckles and the Augustín Gamarra 19 Risky Tradeoffs in The Expanse Epistemic Value vs. Moral Value: Evil Scientists Aesthetic Value vs. Moral Value: Mad Scientists, Awestruck Reverends Epistemic Value vs. Prudential Value: Intrepid Scientists Conflicts Between Values Risky Tradeoffs
15 Sixth Orbit: RIDING THE ROCI 20 The Long Dark Night of The Hat Hemlock and Haberdashery: Plato and Socrates Fervor and Fedoras: Aristotle Spiritual Guts: Aquinas The Grudge Match: Philosophy vs. The Protomolecule The Investigator Must, Therefore, Relinquish the Hat 21 Between Worlds Self and World Worlds and World Travel Between Worlds and Borderlands
