november edition:
viewing: The State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg Russia)
reading: God Building as a work of Art: Cosmist Aesthetics - This months reading is a conversation between E-flux cofounder Anton Vidokle and Irmgard Emmelhainz discussing the long term project of immortality. Teaser:
The name “Russian cosmism” is something that was coined very late, in the 1970s. When these ideas were first developed a century earlier, nobody used such a name. These two words first appear together in a Soviet encyclopedia of philosophy. Somebody wrote an entry for “Russian cosmism” and the name stuck. But it’s actually a misnomer because it gives cosmism a nationalist reading, while the ideas of cosmism are probably the most universal ideas I have ever come across. Cosmism has bigger ambitions than nationalism: when it speaks of resurrection, it’s for everyone who has ever lived on earth. In a sense resurrection is meant not only for humans, but for all living organisms: all life deserves to be eternal. You cannot get much broader than that.
article here: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/110/335963/god-building-as-a-work-of-art-cosmist-aesthetics/
discussion
Date: SUNDAY, November 29th
Time: 6:30pm -8:30pm
Location: meet.google.com/kpv-arzv-hsk