Title & Author:

Art Without Death: : Conversations on Russian Cosmism.

Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Sternberg Press, 2017.
[Place of publication not identified] : e-flux, 2017.

Description:

1 online resource

Notes:
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.

Summary:

"Today, many of us can remember the disappeared indigenous cosmologies as parts of ourselves, lost to colonialism, industrialization, communist revolutions, and capitalist wars. Many names have been given to ideological or historical grand narratives to soothe the pain of loss, to register those losses and render them searchable, but these memorializing mechanisms still fail to register the pain of losing something much larger that cannot be named -- a deep relation to the world, to the cosmos, and to ourselves that gives us strength and sovereignty without need for any other earthly power of right or dominion. What if another kind of modernity had been developed which was even more radical -- so much so that its forward arrow actually sought to conserve and preserve previous lifeworlds against the ravages not of vanguardist reforms but of time itself? And reanimate those worlds. It would project a different kind of modernity altogether, beyond right or wrong sides of history, without victors and victims. The task of progress would then be to care for and preserve the lifeworlds of history, not replace them. But such a modernity could not be a polite or deferential one, for its mission could only be to intervene into the mechanism of the great equalizer -- death -- in order to redistribute the only really precious resource that exists, the force that animates time itself: life. This is the debt we already carry, and the one we must always continuously pay. According to the teachings of Nikolai Fedorov -- nineteenth-century 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 -- that is, resurrected not as souls in heaven, but in material form, in this world, with all their memories and knowledge. Fedorov's call to redistribute vital forces is wildly imaginative in emancipatory ambition, even advocating the conquest of outer space as the territory of immortal life and infinite resources, where all resurrected generations of humans, animals, and all other previously living substance on our planet could eventually live."-- provided by distributor.

Subject:

Architectural criticism.
Political art.
Critique d'architecture.
architectural criticism.

Form/genre:

Electronic books.
Essay Collection.
Interviews.
Collections

Added entries:

Andrews, Mike, contributor.
Aranda, Julieta, contributor.
Baere, Bart De, contributor.
Berardi, Franco "Bifo", contributor.
Groys, Boris, contributor.
Ichniowski, Rachel, contributor.
Kaye Cain-Nielsen, contributor.
Ramsey, Jeff, contributor.
Shaposhnikova, Elena, contributor.
Silva, Mariana, contributor.
Simakova, Marina, contributor.
Soo, Mark, contributor.
Squibb, Stephen, contributor.
Steyerl, Hito, contributor.
Vidokle, Anton, contributor.
Wood, Brian Kuan, contributor.
Zhilyaev, Arseny, contributor.
Zonsheim, Esther, contributor.
Library Stack, supplier.