At the end of the 19th century, the Russian thinker Nikolai Fyodorov (1829-1903) defended a deeply moral and Christian philosophy of science. He imagined that humanity could employ technological ...

Today, billionaires are rushing to colonise space, create new forms of artificial intelligence and extend lifespans. But these ambitions and ideas are nothing new. Cosmism, an early-20th-century ...

Within the framework of the exhibition ARE WE HUMAN? The Design of the Species: 2 seconds, 2 days, 2 years, 200 years, 200,000 years at Princeton University School of Architecture, Beatriz Colomina, ...

Nikolai Fyodorov's beliefs in a cosmic religion centred on life off Earth helped inspire some of the Soviet Union's most brilliant engineers. On 28 December 1903, during a particularly harsh Russian ...

Russian-American artist Anton Vidokle, co-founder of e-flux journal together with Julieta Aranda and Brian Kuan Wood, is working on a trilogy of films that explore the ideas of the early 20th century ...

MOSCOW — “Patriots of the Earth” (2016) is a painting by Pavel Pepperstein, one of Russia’s leading contemporary artists. It’s now hanging in a strangely shaped corridor leading to a tower at Moscow’s ...

Douglas Rushkoff is an American futurist and a visionary, and once a month or so he sends me a newsletter about this current work. Recently, he told me about something called ”Russian Cosmism” and how ...

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Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson are high priests, astronauts are like saints that ascend into heaven, and extraterrestrials are as gods -- benevolent, wise, and capable of manipulating space and ...

Nikolai Fyodorov's beliefs in a cosmic religion centred on life off Earth helped inspire some of the Soviet Union's most brilliant engineers. On 28 December 1903, during a particularly harsh Russian ...