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
關鍵文本，許多是首次以英文出版，這些文本是由俄羅斯宇宙主義的激進生物政治烏托邦主義者在布爾什維克革命前後所寫。宇宙主義在十月革命之前於俄羅斯興起，並在1920年代和1930年代發展；與馬克思主義和歐洲前衛藝術等其他共享這一知識時刻的運動一樣，俄羅斯宇宙主義拒絕了沉思，轉而追求變革，旨在創造的不僅僅是新的藝術或哲學，而是一個新世界。宇宙主義在其變革的願景中走得最遠，呼籲結束死亡、復活死者以及在宇宙空間中的自由移動。本書收錄了關鍵文本，許多是首次以英文出版，這些文本出自俄羅斯宇宙主義的激進生物政治烏托邦主義者之手。
宇宙主義由俄羅斯哲學家尼古拉·費多羅夫於19世紀末發展而成；他認為人類不僅有道德責任照顧病人，還應該利用科學和技術來治療死亡；外太空是永生和無限資源的領域。革命後，新一代人追求費多羅夫的願景。宇宙主義的思想啟發了視覺藝術家、詩人、電影製作人、劇場導演、小說家（托爾斯泰和陀思妥耶夫斯基閱讀了費多羅夫的著作）、建築師和作曲家，並影響了蘇聯的政治和技術。在1930年代，斯大林鎮壓了宇宙主義，將許多運動成員監禁或處決。如今，當哲學想像再次與科學和技術想像交織在一起時，俄羅斯宇宙主義者的作品似乎重新變得相關。
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亞歷山大·博格丹諾夫、亞歷山大·奇澤夫斯基、尼古拉·費多羅夫、鮑里斯·格羅伊斯、瓦列里安·穆拉維約夫、亞歷山大·斯維亞托戈爾、康斯坦丁·齊奧爾科夫斯基、安東·維多克、布萊恩·關·伍德
與e-flux共同出版，紐約
Boris 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 Art Power, History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism (both published by the MIT Press), and other books.
