Leaving the Earth

Boris Groys and Alice Wang

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From a Czech translation of Stanislaw Lem, Astronauts. Illustration: Theodor Rotrekl, 1956.

Issue #136
May 2023










Notes
1

Donald A. Wollheim, The Universe Makers: Science Fiction Today (Harper and Row, 1971), 116.

2

Wollheim, The Universe Makers, 116.

3

In a 2015 conversation with Anton Vidokle at a screening of his film This is Cosmos (2014), Artists Space, New York.

4

Alexander Bogdanov, “Immortality Day,” trans. Anastasiya Osipova, is featured in an anthology of original writings by cosmists, most of which were translated into English for the first time. See Russian Cosmism, ed. Boris Groys (e-flux and MIT Press, 2018).

5

Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (1958), 2nd ed. (University of Chicago Press, 1998), 10.

6

Boris Groys, “Genealogy of Humanity,” e-flux journal, no. 88 (February 2018) .

7

Francine E. Garrett-Bakelman et al, “The NASA Twins Study: A Multidimensional Analysis of a Year-Long Human Spaceflight,” Science, no. 364 (April 2019) .