{"product_id":"russian-cosmism-isbn-9780262552882","title":"Russian Cosmism","description":"\u003cb\u003eCrucial texts, many available in English for the first time, written before and during the Bolshevik Revolution by the radical biopolitical utopianists of Russian Cosmism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCosmism emerged in Russia before the October Revolution and developed through the 1920s and 1930s; like Marxism and the European avant-garde, two other movements that shared this intellectual moment, Russian Cosmism rejected the contemplative for the transformative, aiming to create not merely new art or philosophy but a new world. Cosmism went the furthest in its visions of transformation, calling for the end of death, the resuscitation of the dead, and free movement in cosmic space. This volume collects crucial texts, many available in English for the first time, by the radical biopolitical utopianists of Russian Cosmism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCosmism was developed by the Russian philosopher Nikolai Fedorov in the late nineteenth century; he believed that humans had an ethical obligation not only to care for the sick but to cure death using science and technology; outer space was the territory of both immortal life and infinite resources. After the revolution, a new generation pursued Fedorov's vision. Cosmist ideas inspired visual artists, poets, filmmakers, theater directors, novelists (Tolstoy and Dostoevsky read Fedorov's writings), architects, and composers, and influenced Soviet politics and technology. In the 1930s, Stalin quashed Cosmism, jailing or executing many members of the movement. Today, when the philosophical imagination has again become entangled with scientific and technological imagination, the works of the Russian Cosmists seem newly relevant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAlexander Bogdanov, Alexander Chizhevsky, Nikolai Fedorov, Boris Groys, Valerian Muravyev, Alexander Svyatogor, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Anton Vidokle, Brian Kuan Wood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA copublication with e-flux, New YorkForeword vii\u003cbr\u003eAnton Vidokle and Brian Kuan Wood\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Russian Cosmism and the Technology of Immortality 1\u003cbr\u003eBoris Groys\u003cbr\u003e1 \"The World-Historical Cycles,\" from \u003ci\u003eThe Earth in the Sun's Embrace\u003c\/i\u003e 17\u003cbr\u003eAlexander Chizhevsky\u003cbr\u003e2 From \"Mass Movements and Short Periods of Solar Activity,\" in \u003ci\u003eThe Earth in the Sun's Embrace \u003c\/i\u003e41\u003cbr\u003eAlexander Chizhevsky\u003cbr\u003e3 Astronomy and Architecture 55\u003cbr\u003eNikolai Fedorov\u003cbr\u003e4 Our Affirmations 59\u003cbr\u003eAlexander Svyatogor\u003cbr\u003e5 The Doctrine of the Fathers and Anarchism-Biocosmism 63\u003cbr\u003eAlexander Svyatogor\u003cbr\u003e6 Biocosmist Poetics 83\u003cbr\u003eAlexander Svyatogor\u003cbr\u003e7 A Universal Productive Mathematics 91\u003cbr\u003eValerian Muravyev\u003cbr\u003e8 The Future of Earth and Mankind 113\u003cbr\u003eKonstantin Tsiolkovsky\u003cbr\u003e9 Panpsychism, or Everything Feels 133\u003cbr\u003eKonstantin Tsiolkovsky\u003cbr\u003e10 Theorems of Life (as an Addendum and Clarification on Monism) 157\u003cbr\u003eKonstantin Tsiolkovsky\u003cbr\u003e11 Goals and Norms of Life 167\u003cbr\u003eAlexander Bogdanov\u003cbr\u003e12 Tektology of the Struggle against Old Age 203\u003cbr\u003eAlexander Bogdanov\u003cbr\u003e13 Immortality Day 215\u003cbr\u003eAlexander Bogdanov\u003cbr\u003eBibliography 227\u003cbr\u003eAuthor Biographies 229\u003cbr\u003eIndex 237Boris Groys is an art critic, media theorist, and philosopher. He is Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University and Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eArt Power\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHistory Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism\u003c\/i\u003e (both published by the MIT Press), and other books.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305042366693,"sku":"NP9780262552882","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262552882.jpg?v=1767735993","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/russian-cosmism-isbn-9780262552882","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}