@ARTICLE{TBA, 

TITLE={[FORTHCOMING]  Analysis of the representations of transport in human expansion beyond the geosphere}, 
  
AUTHOR={Olivier Parent, }, 
	
JOURNAL={Technology and Innovation}, 
	
VOLUME={}, 

NUMBER={Forthcoming papers}, 
	
YEAR={2026}, 

URL={https://www.openscience.fr/Analysis-of-the-representations-of-transport-in-human-expansion-beyond-the}, 
	
DOI={TBA}, 
	
ISSN={2399-8571}, 
	
ABSTRACT={Through a forward-looking reinterpretation of a selection of science fiction works—mostly feature films, from Alice Winocour’s Proxima to Morten Tyldum’s Passengers, including Moon, Passenger 4, Artemis, Geostorm, Space Sweepers, Ad Astra, Outland, Mars Express, and The Expanse—the author examines humanity’s expansion within the Solar System from the perspective of transportation methods and the social and territorial policies they reveal or generate. Structured according to the Qualitative Time Scale, the analysis progresses from the Programmed to the Distant. In the Programmed phase, Proxima establishes that the chemical rocket is an image of the breakdown of equality: the Earth’s gravitational well constitutes the first class barrier inscribed in the laws of physics rather than in those of humankind, instituting from the outset a triple exclusion based on energy, body, and gender. In the Accessible realm, Moon, Passenger No. 4, and Artemis depict the early stages of spatial territorialization: the exploitation of a consumable biological workforce, the Malthusian fragility of interplanetary transit systems, and the painful emergence of territorial law within the cycle of unbridled capitalism-laws-collapse-rebirth. In the Probable realm, Geostorm, Space Sweepers, and Ad Astra portray an orbital governance oscillating between conservative scientism, authoritarian corporatocracy, and psychologically devastating expansion. In the Possible realm, Mars Express, Outland, and The Expanse depict a fragmented solar system, where biology itself becomes a national border and where space law remains embryonic. In the Distant realm, Passengers confronts the capitalist interstellar project with its own physical, economic, and political absurdities. This journey will provide the author with an opportunity to formulate a series of open ethical questions about justice as a condition for the sustainability of any space expansion.}}