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Nikolai Fedorov
Nikolai Fedorov
What’s next?
The Editors
e-flux Criticism
Posted: December 22, 2022
Category
Contemporary Art, Sculpture, Painting, Film, Installation, Performance
Crucial texts—many in English for the first time—by the radical biopolitical utopianists of Russian Cosmism.
e-flux Books
Posted: February 1, 2018
Category
Marxism , Philosophy, Technology
Subjects
Cosmism, The Cosmos, Russia, Soviet Union, Materialism, Death, Immortality, Biopolitics, Science, Science Fiction, Outer Space, The Occult & Mysticism, Mathematics
Avant-Garde Museology
Arseny Zhilyaev
How might the contents of the museum be reanimated so as to transcend even the social and physical limits imposed on humankind?
e-flux Books
Posted: September 1, 2015
Category
Museums, Communism, Posthumanism, Marxism
Subjects
Museology, Historicity & Historiography, Russia, Soviet Union, Cosmism, The Cosmos
The Museum, Its Meaning and Mission
Nikolai Fedorov
The museum is the last remnant of the cult of ancestors; it is a special type of that cult, which while being expelled from religion, as we see with Protestants, is reestablished in the form of museums. The only thing higher than the old tatters preserved in museums is the very dust itself, the very remains of the dead; just as the only thing that would be higher than a museum would be a grave, unless the museum itself does not become a transport of ashes to the city, or a transformation of...
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2015
Category
Museums, Philosophy
Subjects
The Cosmos, Cosmism, Death
Energy of Kosmos is Indestructible!!!
Anton Vidokle
This is a script for a film we shot last summer in Russia and Kazakhstan. The film is still being edited. The script is comprised of excerpts from poems, philosophical texts, scientific writings, academic papers, and historical studies by and about Cosmo-Immortalists , a surge of thinking that emerged in Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It linked the Enlightenment with Russian Orthodox and Eastern philosophical traditions to create an idiosyncratically concrete...
e-flux Journal
Posted: October 1, 2013
Category
Film
Subjects
Cosmism, Museology
Maximum Jailbreak
Benedict Singleton
The greatest escape of them all is about to blow the future apart.
— Escape from New York (John Carpenter, 1981), original theatrical movie trailer
Space travel produced some of the defining images of the twentieth century. Sputnik, Apollo, the spacesuit, the NASA logo and the toy-like outline of the space shuttle, liftoffs with all their countdown drama, and the peaceful image of the earth like a mica fleck against coal black; the weird underwater quality of footage shot in...
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 1, 2013
Category
Design, Technology
Subjects
Outer Space, Accelerationism, Cosmism