Russian Cosmism

This intervention diagnosticates the contemporary domestication of critical negativity by algorithmic infrastructure. It traces a genealogy of the Promethean impulse—from the theological dogmatism of 19th-century Russian Hegelianism and Nikolai Fedorov’s Cosmism to its monumentalization under Soviet Brutalism —in order to contrast it with the frictionless, predictive engineering of late capitalism. Ultimately, it investigates what thought…