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# 88
Russian Cosmism: A Foretaste of Revolution
Marina Simakova
The whole thrust of Fedorov’s revolutionary project was to shift our perspective from creation to recreation. Like recreation, revolution itself contains a repetitive moment: it implies a movement of returning to something—at least to the moment of an ultimate reconfiguration of all relations before a new sociopolitical order is established, a moment of both rescission and reconstitution, a burst of destituent and constituent powers with which any radical project is imbued.
e-flux Journal
Posted: February 5, 2018
Category
Philosophy
Subjects
Cosmism, Russia, Immortality, Revolution
# 74
No Man’s Space: On Russian Cosmism
Marina Simakova
We have recently seen a growing interest in Russian cosmism as a subject of theoretical polemics and a conceptual frame for several major art projects. Cosmism’s broad presence in the international intellectual arena was long impossible for several reasons. Despite the ambitiousness of his ideas (foremost among them, the persistent desire to challenge death itself), Nikolai Fedorov, Russian cosmism’s central philosopher, was a private person who attempted to live his life in keeping with the…
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 1, 2016
Category
Contemporary Art
Subjects
Cosmism, Russia, Futures