Art without Death
Conversations on Russian Cosmism
with contr. by Hito Steyerl, Arseny Zhilyaev, Franco "Bifo"Berardi, Boris Groys ...[et al.]

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Auteur(s)

Hito Steyerl, Arseny Zhilyaev, Franco "Bifo"Berardi, Boris Groys, Anton Vidokle, Elena Shaposhnikova, Marina Simakova, Bart De Baere, Esther Zonsheim

Editor(s)

Julieta Aranda, Anton Vidokle, Brian Kuan Wood, Stephen Squibb

Uitgever

Berlin : Sternberg Press, 2017

Omvang

152 p., 18 cm.

ISBN

9783956791956

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According to the teachings of Nikolai Fedorov—nineteenth-century librarian, religious philosopher, and progenitor of Russian cosmism—our ethical obligation to use reason and knowledge to care for the sick extends to curing the dead of their terminal status. The dead must be brought back to life using means of advanced technology—that is, resurrected not as souls in heaven, but in material form, in this world, with all their memories and knowledge. Fedorov’s call to redistribute vital forces is wildly imaginative in emancipatory ambition, even advocating the conquest of outer space as the territory of immortal life and infinite resources, where all resurrected generations of humans, animals, and all other previously living substance on our planet could eventually live. This book of interviews and conversations seeks to address the contemporary relevance of Russian cosmism and biocosmism in light of its influence on today’s art-historical apparatuses, weird materialisms, extinction narratives, and historical and temporal politics.

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Persoon als onderwerp

Hito Steyerl, Arseny Zhilyaev, Anton Vidokle, Elena Shaposhnikova

Trefwoorden

art theory , trans humanism

Geografische locatie

Russia

Locatie in de bibliotheek

Kast 9 - 5: Kunst stromingen en thema's

Opmerkingen

Includes notes