Nicky Woolf, “SpaceX founder Elon Musk plans to get humans to Mars in six years,” The Guardian, September 28, 2016 →.
Bob Jessop, The State: Past, Present, Future (Polity Press, 2016), 49.
Alexander Bogdanov, Red Star: The First Bolshevik Utopia, trans. Charles Rougle (Indiana University Press, 1984), 77.
Kim Stanley Robinson famously picks up on Red Star in the first part of his Mars Trilogy, in which a descendent of Bogdanov—Arkady Bogdanov—joins a mission to establish permanent human presence on Mars, and inspires an independent movement known as “Bogdanovism,” structured on socio-architectural theories for communalist living. Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Harper Voyager, 2009).
Frans von der Dunk, “Van wie is de maan?,” in Bik van der Pol, NG-1991-4-25 (Sternberg Press, 2007), 129–34.
As Eva Díaz points out in her overview of what she calls the artistic “alt-sciences” (not to be confused with the alt-right), “New Spacers like Musk and Bezos treat outer space, ostensibly free of indigenous peoples, as a new frontier exempt from the exploitation that characterized earlier colonial projects.” Eva Díaz, “We Are All Aliens,” e-flux journal no. 91 (May 2018) →.
For a historical view of US space imperialism and its critics leading up to Trump’s declaration of Space Force, see Felicity D. Scott, “Self-Government on the High Frontier,” in Futurity Report, eds. Eric C. H. de Bruyn and Sven Lütticken (Sternberg Press, 2019), 133–50.
Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (Polity, 2018), 54.
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (Harper Voyager, 2011), 76.
New World Academy Reader #5: Stateless Democracy, eds. Dilar Dirik Jonas Staal (BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, 2015).
Le Guin, The Dispossessed, 301.
See Bruno Latour’s lecture “A Tale of Seven Planets – An Exercise in Gaiapolitics,” Senior Loeb Scholar Lecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, October 16, 2018 →.
John Jordan, “For the Love of Winning: An Open Letter to Extinction Rebellion,” ZAD FOR EVER, May 3, 2019 →.
Octavia E. Butler, Lilith’s Brood (Grand Central Publishing, 2007), 442. See also Antonia Majaca and Luciana Parisi, “The Incomputable and Instrumental Possibility,” e-flux journal no. 77, November 2016 →.
From the opening statements of Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun at their exhibition “Xenogenesis,” Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, May 25, 2019. See also Xenogenesis, ed. Teresa Cos Rebollo (Van Abbemuseum, 2019).
Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower (Grand Central Publishing, 2007), 11-12.
Butler, Parable of the Sower, 222.
Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents (Grand Central Publishing, 2007), 325.
I take the verb “guesting” from iLiana Fokianaki’s assembly “On Guesting,” Roaming Assembly #15, Dutch Art Institute (DAI), Arnhem, September 23, 2018.
Larry McCaffery and Jim McMenamin, “An Interview with Octavia E. Butler, 1988,” in Conversations with Octavia Butler, ed. Consuela Francis (University Press of Mississippi, 2010), 26.
Judith Butler, Notes Towards a Performative Theory of Assembly (Harvard University Press, 2015). See also my essay “Assemblism,” e-flux journal no. 80, March 2017 →.
Donna Haraway, Staying With the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Duke University Press, 2016), 58.
Haraway, Staying With the Trouble, 101.
Haraway, Staying With the Trouble, 102–03.
Transcribed from a lecture by Donna Haraway, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, March 25, 2017 →.
Christina Kiaer, Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism (MIT Press, 2005), 34.
Kiaer, Imagine No Possessions, 46.
Jodi Dean, “Four Theses on the Comrade,” e-flux journal no. 86, November 2017 →.
To which Dean would probably add, everyone on the same side. Zdenka Badonivac, Comradeship: Curating, Art, And Politics in Post-Socialist Europe (Independent Curators International, 2019), 34.
Octavia E. Butler, Seed to Harvest (Grand Central Publishing, 2007), 410.
Butler, Seed to Harvest, 641.
See “Russian Cosmism,” special issue, e-flux journal no. 88, February 2019 →, which followed the exhibition and conference program “Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism” at HKW, Berlin, September 1–October 3, 2017.
Russian Cosmism, ed. Boris Groys (e-flux and MIT Press, 2018), 9.
Alexander Svyatogor, “The Doctrine of the Fathers and Anarchism-Biocosmism,” in Russian Cosmism, 77.
Bannon was CEO of the Biosphere 2 Earth System Science Research Facility in Oracle, Arizona, from 1993-95. The futuristic architecture spanned 1.27 hectares and is the largest closed ecological system ever created. Bannon would further pursue his fascination with closed-system technologies through the massive multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft. See Jonas Staal, Steve Bannon: A Propaganda Retrospective (Het Nieuwe Instituut, 2018).
Erwin W. Fellows, “Propaganda: History of a Word,” American Speech 34, no. 3 (October 1959), 182.
