2 documents
# 89
Art as the Overcoming of Death: From Nikolai Fedorov to the Cosmists of the 1920s
Anastasia Gacheva
Cosmist thinkers founded the “organization of world-transformation”—an organization that was meant to encompass all the types of humanity’s creative activity, all spheres of its theoretical and practical application—on the creative principle found in art. Art opens before humanity an opportunity to move away from the present instrumental, technical progress, which acts upon nature only from outside, by use of mechanisms and machines, to a new, mature type of progress that would be organic, that would transform and spiritualize the world through a living, non-mediated touch.
e-flux Journal
Posted: March 7, 2018
Category
Aesthetics
Subjects
Cosmism, Russia, Immortality, Beauty, Christianity
# 88
Timeline of Russian Cosmism
Anastasia Gacheva, Arseny Zhilyaev, and Anton Vidokle
A timeline of Russian cosmism maps key developments relevant to cosmism starting from 1772 to 2000. The timeline is a work in progress: new entries, images, and films, especially those pertaining to the twenty-first century, will be added in the near future. Go to website →
e-flux Journal
Posted: February 5, 2018
Subjects
Cosmism, Russia