80 - Close Encounters of the 4th International
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Throughout the universe, far from home, all human dead will be reanimated to walk again eternally. Cosmism, a seemingly unkillable philosophy, launches our supernatural, technological, and political history of a modern myth that crystallised in the Cold War and which now has millions of adherents, from unaffiliated believers to extreme cultists to the utopian Trotskyists known as the Posadists.
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Episode 18, where we talk about Cosmism in the context of the space race
Is There A God? (in Russian) - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1932)
Le Voyage Dans La Lune - George Méliès
On UFOlogy with Chinese Characteristics and the Fate of Chinese Socialism - Malcolm Thompson (2020)
Episode 52 - The Illuminazis feat. We Don’t Talk About the Weather
"Alexa" scene from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Sovereignty and the UFO - Alexander Wendt & Raymond Duvall (2008)
Interview with Alexander Wendt in Vox - Sean Illing (2020)
Scientist Edward Condon of Colorado University published a scientific study of UFOs in 1968
David Halperin on the Hills' abduction experience
UFOs, Otherness, and Belonging: Identity in Remote Aboriginal Australia - Eirik Saethre (2007)
I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs, and Apocalypse Communism - A.M. Gittlitz (2020)
Afrofuturism: where space, pyramids and politics collide - Chardine Taylor-Stone (2014)
Parliament Funkadelic - The Mothership Connection (Halloween, 1976)
Further reading
The Roswell Myth in the FBI Files: Aliens, UFOs, and the Cold War - Anna Wortman (2004)
Afrofuturism, science fiction, and the history of the future - Lisa Yaszek (2010)