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?