On the films of Anton Vidokle, exploring themes of technological immortality and resurrection informed by Cosmist philosophy. Citizens of the Cosmos examines the artist Anton Vidokle's films and the Cosmist philosophy underpinning them. It features essays and conversations with Vidokle by seminal contemporary theorists, curators, and artists: Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Keti Chukhrov, Liam Gillick, Boris Groys, Daniel Muzyczuk, Miguel Amado and Georgia Perkins, Elizabeth Povinelli, and Raqs Media Collective. This is the first book to survey Vidokle's Cosmism-related filmic output, begun in 2014, and includes full scripts from the films.
The book's contributors speculate on Vidokle's Cosmist conceptions of technological immortality, resurrection of all ancestors, radical museology, and space travel, grappling with how these ideas embroil or crystallize contemporary theories, artistic and technological imaginaries: atmospheric manipulation, cryonics, biopolitics, extraplanetary prospecting, geo-engineering, genetics.
Franco "Bifo" Berardi disagrees with the Cosmist conjecture of death as a flaw in the conception of the human being. Elizabeth Povinelli digests the life-nonlife mattering of dust through relationships to and from the human and more-than-human ancestors to come. Boris Groys contemplates the gravitational forces between Cosmism and communism according to cosmic and social orders, grounded as they are in the laws of both physics and socialist politics. Keti Chukhrov considers the formation of thinking through madness, dying, and reasoning according to Cosmist philosophical and religious debates and beliefs.
Raqs Media Collective and Anton Vidokle discuss different cultures of death, finitude, and rituals. Miguel Amado and Georgia Perkins examine the in-betweeness of the categories of life and death through the designs of terraforming vehicles navigating interplanetary space travel.
Daniel Muzyczuk investigates Vidokle's interests in the context of the history of the collection at the Muzeum Sztuki in Lódź, while Liam Gillick and Anton Vidokle converse about filmmaking references and methods, from voiceover narrative to editing processes.
Copublished by Sirius Arts Centre
ContributorsFranco "Bifo" Berardi, Keti Chukhrov, Raqs Media Collective, Liam Gillick, Boris Groys, Daniel Muzyczuk, Miguel Amado And Georgia Perkins, Elizabeth A. Povinelli
在安東·維多克的電影中，探討受宇宙主義哲學啟發的科技不朽與復活主題。《宇宙的公民》檢視了藝術家安東·維多克的電影及其背後的宇宙主義哲學。書中包含了與維多克的對話及當代重要理論家、策展人和藝術家的文章，包括法蘭哥·「比佛」·貝拉爾迪、凱蒂·丘赫羅夫、利亞姆·吉利克、鮑里斯·格羅伊斯、丹尼爾·穆齊丘克、米格爾·阿馬多、喬治亞·帕金斯、伊莉莎白·波維內利和Raqs Media Collective。這是第一本調查維多克自2014年以來與宇宙主義相關的電影作品的書籍，並包含電影的完整劇本。
書中的貢獻者們對維多克的宇宙主義概念進行了推測，包括科技不朽、所有祖先的復活、激進的博物館學和太空旅行，並探討這些思想如何與當代理論、藝術和科技想像交織或結晶：大氣操控、冷凍技術、生物政治、外星探勘、地球工程、基因學。
法蘭哥·「比佛」·貝拉爾迪不同意宇宙主義將死亡視為人類概念中的缺陷的推測。伊莉莎白·波維內利通過與人類及超越人類的祖先之間的關係，消化塵埃的生與非生的意義。鮑里斯·格羅伊斯根據宇宙和社會秩序思考宇宙主義與共產主義之間的引力，這些秩序根植於物理學和社會主義政治的法則中。凱蒂·丘赫羅夫考慮通過瘋狂、死亡和推理形成思考，這些都與宇宙主義的哲學和宗教辯論及信仰有關。
Raqs Media Collective和安東·維多克討論不同的死亡文化、有限性和儀式。米格爾·阿馬多和喬治亞·帕金斯通過設計在星際太空旅行中導航的地球改造車輛，檢視生命與死亡類別之間的中介性。
丹尼爾·穆齊丘克調查維多克在羅茲的Muzeum Sztuki收藏歷史背景下的興趣，而利亞姆·吉利克和安東·維多克則討論電影製作的參考和方法，從旁白敘事到剪輯過程。
本書由Sirius Arts Centre共同出版。
貢獻者：法蘭哥·「比佛」·貝拉爾迪、凱蒂·丘赫羅夫、Raqs Media Collective、利亞姆·吉利克、鮑里斯·格羅伊斯、丹尼爾·穆齊丘克、米格爾·阿馬多和喬治亞·帕金斯、伊莉莎白·A·波維內利。
Anton Vidokle is an artist and filmmaker, and a founding editor of
e-flux journal. His films have been presented at museums, festivals, and events worldwide, including the Yokohama Triennale (2020), the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2019), and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2017).
Miguel Amado is a curator and critic, and Director of Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, County Cork, Ireland.
安東·維多克爾（Anton Vidokle）是一位藝術家和電影製作人，也是《e-flux journal》的創始編輯。他的電影曾在全球各地的博物館、影展和活動中展出，包括橫濱三年展（Yokohama Triennale，2020年）、首爾現代美術館（National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul，2019年）以及柏林世界文化之家（Haus der Kulturen der Welt，2017年）。
米格爾·阿馬多（Miguel Amado）是一位策展人和評論家，並擔任愛爾蘭科克郡科夫（Cobh, County Cork）天狼星藝術中心（Sirius Arts Centre）的主任。
