e-flux Journal #142
<p>It is tempting to associate stargazing with imaginative escapism. With sheer scale and implacable beauty, the cosmos shows manifest disinterest in human affairs. Here is something, we take comfort in thinking, that we cannot possibly fuck up. But this division between our world and the one beyond is dangerous: colonizers said similar things about the “new world.” Like all such divisions, it’s also patently absurd.</p> <p><strong>Editorial</strong><br /> Ben Eastham</p> <p><strong>Introduction to Cosmos Cinema</strong><br /> Anton Vidokle</p> <p><strong>Anna Andreeva: A “Cosmic-Minded Comrade” in the Red Rose Collective</strong><br /> Christina Kiaer with Ekaterina Kulinicheva</p> <p><strong>Through Shadows, Darkly</strong><br /> Hallie Ayres</p> <p><strong>The Cosmos Flickers for You</strong><br /> Xin Wang</p> <p><strong>Chaosmos Cinema</strong><br /> Elena Vogman</p> <p><strong>Orphan of Shanghai</strong><br /> Zhen Zhang</p> <p><strong>Exo-Ecologies: Notes on Intra-planetary and Inter-planetary Becomings</strong><br /> Jonas Staal</p> <p><strong>A Brief History of the Cosmos in Cinema</strong><br /> Lukas Brasiskis</p> <p><strong>River Swimming in a Salmon</strong><br /> Zairong Xiang</p> <p><strong>A Soviet Engineer of Eternal Life</strong><br /> Arseny Zhilyaev</p>
Editors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Ben Eastham
Contributors: Ben Eastham, Anton Vidokle, Christina Kiaer, Ekaterina Kulinicheva, Hallie Ayres, Xin Wang, Elena Vogman, Zhen Zhang, Jonas Staal, Lukas Brasiskis, Zairong Xiang, Arseny Zhilyaev
Editor-in-Chief: Kaye Cain-Nielsen
Managing and Copy Editor: Michael Andrews
Associate Editor: Andreas Petrossiants
Art Director: Peter Sit
Contributing Editor: Serubiri Moses, Elvia Wilk, Evan Calder Williams
Poetry Editor: Simone White
Graphic Designer: Jeff Ramsey
Layout Generator: Adam Florin
PDF Designer: Mengyi Qian
PDF Generator: Keyian Vafai
Part of: e-flux journal
ISBN: 21641625
ISSN: 21641625