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Art without death : conversations on Russian cosmism

Title
Art without death : conversations on Russian cosmism / with contributions by Bart De Baere [and eight others].
Publication
  • Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2017]
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
Baere, Bart de
Description
152 pages : color illustrations; 18 cm
Summary
According to the nineteenth-century teachings of Nikolai Fedorov?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?resurrected not as souls in heaven, but in material form, in this world, with all their memories and knowledge. 00This book of interviews and conversations with today?s most compelling living and resurrected artists and thinkers seeks to address the relevance of Russian cosmism and biocosmism in light of its influence on the Russian artistic and political vanguard as well as on today?s art-historical apparatuses, weird materialisms, extinction narratives, and historical and temporal politics. This unprecedented collection of exchanges on cosmism asks how such an encompassing and imaginative, unapologetically humanist and anthropocentric strain of thinking could have been so historically and politically influential, especially when placed alongside the politically inconsequential?but in some sense equally encompassing?apocalypticism of contemporary realist imaginaries. 00Exhibition: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany (01.09.-03.10.2017).
Series Statement
E-flux journal
Uniform Title
E-flux journal (Series)
Subjects
Note
  • Collection of texts partly published previously.
Contents
Introduction -- Cosmic catwalk and the production of time / Hito Steyeri and Anton Vidokle -- Art without death / Elena Shaposnikova and Arseny Zhilyaev -- Factories of resurrection / Anton Vidokle and Arseny Zhilyaev -- Chaos and cosmos / Franco "Bifo" Berardi and Anton Vidokle -- Contemporary art is the theology of the museum / Boris Groys and Arseny Zhilyaev -- Cosmic doubts / Marina Simakova, Anton Vidokle, and Arseny Arseny Zhilyaev -- Wahlverwandtschaft / Bart De Baere, Arseny Zhilyaev and Esther Zonsheim.
ISBN
  • 9783956793523
  • 3956793528
LCCN
  • 2017440686
  • 9783956793523
OCLC
  • on1005072500
  • 1005072500
  • SCSB-8941470
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library