Art without death : conversations on Russian cosmismBaere, Bart deEnglishBookAccording to the nineteenth-century teachings of Nikolai Fedorov 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 resurrected not as souls in heaven, but in material form, in this world, with all their memories and knowledge. This book of interviews and conversations with today's most compelling living and resurrected artists and thinkers seeks to address the relevance of Russian cosmism and biocosmism in light of its influence on the Russian artistic and political vanguard as well as on today's art-historical apparatuses, weird materialisms, extinction narratives, and historical and temporal politics. This unprecedented collection of exchanges on cosmism asks how such an encompassing and imaginative, unapologetically humanist and anthropocentric strain of thinking could have been so historically and politically influential, especially when placed alongside the politically inconsequential?but in some sense equally encompassing apocalypticism of contemporary realist imaginaries. Exhibition: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany (01.09.-03.10.2017).According to the nineteenth-century teachings of Nikolai Fedorov 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 resurrected not as souls in heaven, but in material form, in this world, with all their memories and knowledge. This book of interviews and conversations with today's most compelling living and resurrected artists and thinkers seeks to address the relevance of Russian cosmism and biocosmism in light of its influence on the Russian artistic and political vanguard as well as on today's art-historical apparatuses, weird materialisms, extinction narratives, and historical and temporal politics. This unprecedented collection of exchanges on cosmism asks how such an encompassing and imaginative, unapologetically humanist and anthropocentric strain of thinking could have been so historically and politically influential, especially when placed alongside the politically inconsequential?but in some sense equally encompassing?apocalypticism of contemporary realist imaginaries. Exhibition: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany (01.09.-03.10.2017).According to the nineteenth-century teachings of Nikolai Fedorov?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?resurrected not as souls in heaven, but in material form, in this world, with all their memories and knowledge. 00This book of interviews and conversations with today?s most compelling living and resurrected artists and thinkers seeks to address the relevance of Russian cosmism and biocosmism in light of its influence on the Russian artistic and political vanguard as well as on today?s art-historical apparatuses, weird materialisms, extinction narratives, and historical and temporal politics. This unprecedented collection of exchanges on cosmism asks how such an encompassing and imaginative, unapologetically humanist and anthropocentric strain of thinking could have been so historically and politically influential, especially when placed alongside the politically inconsequential?but in some sense equally encompassing?apocalypticism of contemporary realist imaginaries. 00Exhibition: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany (01.09.-03.10.2017).2017Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2017]©2017Philosophy, RussianCosmologyArt and philosophyBook9783956793523