Crucial texts, many available in English for the first time,
written before and during the Bolshevik Revolution by the radical
biopolitical utopianists of Russian Cosmism. Cosmism 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. Cosmism 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. Contributors Alexander Bogdanov,
Alexander Chizhevsky, Nikolai Fedorov, Boris Groys, Valerian
Muravyev, Alexander Svyatogor, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Anton
Vidokle, Brian Kuan Wood A copublication with e-flux, New York
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