Boris Groys

História

Boris Efimovich Groys (born 19 March 1947 in Berlin, Germany) is an art critic, media theorist, and philosopher. He is a professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University and senior research fellow at the Academy of Design in Karlsruhe, Germany. He has been a professor ofAesthetics, Art History, and Media Theory at the Academy of Design/Center for Art and Media Technology (HfG/ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany and a visiting professor at a number of universities in the United States and Europe, including the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Southern California.

Filmes

The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun
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The second installment of Anton Vidokle’s trilogy on Russian cosmism, The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun, looks at the poetic dimension of the solar cosmology of Soviet biophysicist Alexander Chizhevsky. Shot in Kazakhstan, where Chizhevsky was imprisoned and later exiled, the film introduces Сhizhevsky’s research into the impact of solar emissions on human sociology, psychology, politics, and economics in the form of wars, revolutions, epidemics, and other upheavals. It aligns the life of post-Soviet rural residents and the futurological projects of Russian cosmism to emphasize that the goal of the early Soviet breakthroughs aimed at the conquest of outer space was not so much technical acceleration, but the common cause of humankind in their struggle against the limitations of earthly life.
This Is Cosmos
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Based on the ideas of Russian philosopher, Nikolai Fedorov, Anton Vidokle’s film was shot in Siberia, Crimea, and Kazakhstan. Fedorov, like others, believed that death was a mistake, “because the energy of cosmos is indestructible, because true religion is a cult of ancestors, because true social equality is immortality for all.” Fedorov was one of the Cosmo-Immortalists, a surge of thinkers that emerged in Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They linked Western Enlightenment with Russian Orthodoxy and Eastern philosophical traditions, as well as Marxism, to create an idiosyncratically concrete metaphysics. For the Russian cosmists, cosmos did not mean outer space: rather, they wanted to create “cosmos” on earth. “To construct a new reality, free of hunger, disease, violence, death, need, inequality – like communism.”
Christoph Schlingensief - Die Piloten
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Documentary satire about a project by Christoph Schlingensief: Ten years after his TV project "Talk 2000", Schlingensief started to work on a new talk show – at least that was what he claimed. But in reality, it was obvious that the pilot episodes he produced would never be broadcasted. Nevertheless, all celebrities from the political and cultural sphere, Schlingensief had requested, accepted his invitation, including the filmmaker Oskar Roehler, the televangelist Jürgen Fliege, the politician Claudia Roth, or the rapper Sido. It is beyond question, that the talk show panel took an unconventional course directly from the start – and was soon threatening to turn into an uproar.
Thinking in Loop: 3. Unsterbliche Körper
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Thinking in Loop: 2. Das Medium Religion
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Thinking in Loop: 1. Iconoclastic Delights
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Shards of cinema and philosophy
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Shards of cinema and philosophy.