This essay, a talk given on two occasions in the spring of 2024, explores the political and cultural implications of space expansionism, and in particular the notion of astrocolonialism, with respect to existing normative ideas concerning political order in China and the Western tradition. It engages with the work of Martin Heidegger as well as the contemporary Chinese philosopher Tingyang Zhao. It is arguably a contribution to the study of what Yuk Hui calls "Cosmotechnics," and more specifically a study of the implications of space expansionism for the discursive orientation of tradition ways of imagining the spatial relationship between technology and the cosmos.s