TOTAL.EARTH (de|en)  
The divine socialist App.

Peter Behrbohm & Anton Steenbock (SONDER)

Akademie der Künste Berlin 2023

"It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the day capitalism ends," someone once said. We believe that this day won't be a revolution, but the release of an irresistible new platform: Total.Earth sits at the intersection of communist religion, social sculpture and the final phase of the sharing economy. It promises its users lifelong access to perfect memories, digital immortality and a peaceful and sustainable future based on the unification of all collected memories.

Users can fly through a meticulously organised inventory of their entire life at any time, free of charge until the end of their life. After their death, however, their data is carefully awakened from sleep by a democratically controlled algorithm and resurrected as a collective entity in the digital afterlife. The DAO DEI is a parliament of timeforms organising a just and sustainable future made possible by immortal intellectual labour.

Total.Earth is therefore based on concepts that were conceived 120 years ago in preparation for revolutionary upheavals: Nikolai Fyodorov's cosmism calls for the immortality of all and the resurrection of all previous generations in space as the basis of a just society. Alexander Bogdanov was the second man of the Bolsheviks, but unlike Lenin, he wanted to establish communism with the God Builders as a religion that worshipped not God, but humanity united in friendship. He also founded tectology, which seeks forms of organisation for a future society in historical, biological, geological, [...] structures.

The installation fuses elements of start-up fairs, space capsules and religious shrines into a neo-constructivist pavilion that seeks to sell an irresistible business model to fulfil the Divine Common Task - the peaceful unification of the past, present and future.

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