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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 13/04/2026

The US disregards international law on Earth. Is that what we want on the Moon? 👉 theconversation.com/as-arte...

Art Cotterell @artcotterell.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

In the @aunz.theconversation.com today: At a time when the US is drawing growing criticism for disregarding international law, and upholding it selectively when it serves US interests, what does US leadership in space mean?

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As Artemis II is celebrated, the world faces hard questions about US leadership in space

The US disregards international law on Earth. Is that what we want on the Moon?

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Art Cotterell @artcotterell.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

How we talk about outer space shapes the futures we imagine and build. Indigenous perspectives offer a better way forward. Out today: collaborative piece by myself and William Grant, promoted by the revival in rhetoric of space as the “manifest destiny” of the US. theconversation.com/for-too-long...

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For too long, colonial language has dominated space exploration. There is a better way

How we talk about outer space shapes the futures we imagine and build. Indigenous perspectives offer a better way forward.

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Art Cotterell @artcotterell.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Good to be interviewed about plans to setup nuclear power reactors on the Moon by the US and China and Russia, and why we need int’l cooperation rather than launching global rivalries and inequalities off-Earth: www.news.com.au/technology/s... @anuregnet.bsky.social @acsg.bsky.social

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Art Cotterell @artcotterell.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

As a #DavidLynch fan and someone interested in how we come to understand tech via pop culture, Lynch’s use of the atomic age to comment on the told & untold consequences of tech, and how tech reflects humanity’s power to both create & destroy is worthy of attention as many reflect on his work 🧵

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Art Cotterell @artcotterell.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Announcement of the new UN Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies reminded me that the first resolution of the UN General Assembly in 1946 was on tech governance, in response to what was then the recent discovery of nuclear energy and the existential threat posed by nuclear weapons

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Art Cotterell @artcotterell.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

United Nations starting the year with a new Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies. Mandate to implement the Global Digital Compact from last year’s Summit of the Future. GDC centres tech for the benefit of all, with a focus on digital cooperation, and AI and data governance to achieve this.

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Press Release | A new UN Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies | Office of the Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology

1 January 2025 – As of 1 January 2025, the Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology will transition to a new UN Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies (ODET). This historic developm...

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Art Cotterell @artcotterell.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Since I wrote this in Oct on the need for opening dialogue on space governance between the US-led Artemis and China-led ILRS frameworks, Thailand has just become the first nation to join both. Interesting to see if any others follow now this ‘first’ has occurred. theconversation.com/space-isnt-a...

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Space isn’t all about the ‘race’ – rival superpowers must work together for a better future

The latest ‘space race’ between the US and China aims to get people back on the Moon. But the path to get there doesn’t have to be rife with conflict.

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Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I'm glad he's happy!! But not only is that metric Not a Thing - if the COPUOS definition of 'consensus' was 'a 51% majority', it would be a *very* different room. And, even if we did go by that metric, only 48 Artemis signatories are COPUOS members - and Liechtenstein is not one of them.

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Art Cotterell @artcotterell.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

‘Space mainstreaming’ - what is it and why it matters to advancing national priorities. My latest policy piece published by @acsg.bsky.social proposes this new concept to better integrate considerations of space tech’s benefits and risks across govt policy-making spacegovcentre.org/_files/ugd/e...

The Case for ‘Space Mainstreaming’ to Advance National Priorities by Art Cotterell. December 2024. Published by the Australian Centre for Space Governance.

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