Conversation with filmmaker Anton Vidokle:

"There is no substance which can't take the form of a living being.The simplest being is the atom.Therefore the whole universe is alive and there is nothing in it but life",writes Tsiolkovsky in a monograph entitled "The Monism of the Universe (1931)." Despite their profound difference in their relationship to death. Both Tsiolkovsky and Fedorov imagine a living,sentiment cosmos.While this is largely a scientifically inspired insight for Tsiolkovsky,for Fedorov it is an art project which is awesome.