She argues that we now see ourselves through Sputnik’s eyes, an interplanetary, alienated gaze from nowhere rather than from the grounded, terrestrial standpoint that had constituted “the human condition” through all of human history
Canavan sees the launch of Sputnik as a break in human self-awareness, or known as the cosmic point of view that severs us from Earth. This abstracted look turns humans into astronimized spectators of there world but a preview of the posthuman condition in our current Anthropocene.