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Accepted Paper:
Post-extinction: thought-experiments of Moscow-based atheists and futurists
Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic
(Glasgow University)
Paper Short Abstract:
On trial for blasphemy against the messianic futures of Greater Russian, Moscow-based futurists and atheists hypothesize about a world without humans and speculative scenarios of extinctions. What stands behind their destructive vision?
Paper Abstract:
Catastrophe, post-apocalypse and total annihilation of humankind are envisaged and shared online by a network of Moscow-based futurists and atheists. They imagine futures without humans, and worlds destroyed after a drunken night out with aliens. Do these end of time scenarios constitute a critique of the contemporary socio-political brutality? A rejection of history and its human-centric narratives? Or enunciation of future-pessimism? What is the value of speculative extinction, in the realities of the ongoing war and a prophesied future of Russia's greatness, war crimes against and killings of people in Ukraine, and return of zinc coffins into Russia's indigenous communities and indigent rural areas?
Panel
P20
Catastrophic thinking, and thinking about catastrophe: constructing an anthropology of the ‘end-times’ for the colonised and displaced
Session 1