How a Soviet cosmic dream is becoming a modern reality Cheating
death and raising the dead. Creating life. Freeing the spirit.
Colonising space. These projects, of which some have been achieved
and some will soon, have a shared Russian history, belonging to a
movement known as cosmism - a mixture of scientific research,
metaphysics and mysticism. More than 100 years ago, key Russian
thinkers and anarchists alike wanted to resurrect the dead and send
them into space. Since then, cosmists have prepared to colonise the
planets, to save a world that would become overpopulated after
death had been vanquished. Cosmism was the model behind the Soviet
Union. Yet, it is still ever-present, and cosmism is responsible
for a number of Russian policies. Decades ago, it also found itself
a second home: Silicon Valley. A principal source of inspiration
for Californian transhumanists, Soviet cosmism founded the core
dreams of contemporary society - immortality and colonisation of
space. The cosmists have written our future, and we're now living
it.
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