From the Fields to the Stars!: Sputnik, Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination
For our 100th episode, we go back to our roots. Djamil, Virginia and Rudy sit down to discuss the launch of Sputnik, using Asif A. …
Cosmism
Prefiguration and (Cosmic) Utopia with A. M. Gittlitz
Remi and Rudy welcome A. M. Gittlitz, the author of I Want to Believe: J. Posadas, UFOs and Apocalypse Communism and producers of The Antifada …
Cosmic Imagination in Revolutionary Russia
Before the rise of the Soviet Space Program, utopian visions of space travel existed alongside serious scientific work to make it a reality. Donald Parkinson …