Cosmism: Transhumanism’s Russian Roots

Russian Cosmism treated death as a solvable engineering problem and advocated 'universal resuscitation' and space colonization decades before Silicon Valley’s transhumanism. Anchored in Fedorov’s Philosophy of the Common Task and profiled by Boris Groys, it presented a spiritual alternative to both futurism and communism. This genealogy complicates the popular view that today’s techno‑utopianism is a purely American invention. — Locating Big Tech’s ambitions in a Russian philosophical tradition reframes debates over technology’s moral ends, state ideology, and the legitimacy of life‑extension and space projects.