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Title
Dark Cosmism: Or, the Apophatic Specter of Russo-Soviet Techno-utopianism
Description
By utilizing words, photographs, and motion pictures, this multimodal and multisited project traces a rhizomatic genealogy of Russian Cosmism—a nineteenth century political theology promoting a universal human program for overcoming death, resurrecting ancestors, and traveling through the cosmos—amongst post-Soviet techno-utopian projects and imaginaries. I illustrate how Cosmist techno-utopian, futurist, and other-than-human discourse exist as Weberian “elective affinities” within diverse ecologies of the imagination, transmitting a variety of philosophies and political programs throughout trans-temporal, yet philosophically bounded, communities. With a particular focus on the United States and Ukraine, and taking an apophatic analytical position, I dissect how different groups of philosophers, technologists, and publics interact(ed) with Cosmism, as well as how seemingly disparate communities (re)shape and deterritorialize Cosmist political theology in an attempt to legitimize their constructed political imaginaries.
Date Created
2023
Contributors
- Genovese, Taylor (Author)
- Bennett, Gaymon (Thesis advisor)
- Avina, Alexander (Committee member)
- Messeri, Lisa (Committee member)
- Josephson Storm, Jason Ā (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
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Extent
212 pages
Language
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
Primary Member of
Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.2.N.190779
Level of coding
minimal
Cataloging Standards
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Partial requirement for: Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2023
Field of study: Interdisciplinary Studies
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- 2023-12-14 01:20:14
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