Zombies of the stratosphere orbit to the telecommands of a different station.
A viewpoint amongst many others, obsolescence of any particular interpretive scheme can be thwarted by on-going engagement.
Of ideological constellations, orbital urbanism is a rising star. A navigational system for negotiating the densities and heterogeneities of what once was quite aptly known as space.
Contrary to conventional patterns and operations, so-called “zombie-sats” gesture against the facilitation of networks, the providing of services, images and information. Dropping their typical geosynchronous orbits, communications and tasks, wayward satellites call attention to the attractions of the void that persists beyond the celestial cityscape.
Zombified arrays of luminescent, sky-flung objects de-orbit and meander like pinball wizards in the cluttered stellar megalopolis. ”Space” is crammed even now with spent rocket stages, lost equipment, miscellaneous debris and meteoric sympathizers. Discriminating actors, zombie-sats are informed by a vision of temporary autonomous zones. Misfit to the function of stationary nodes, connect-the-dots portraiture popularized in antiquity does not compute.
