2 documents
Andrey Platonov
Andrey Platonov
Avant-Garde Museology
Arseny Zhilyaev
How might the contents of the museum be reanimated so as to transcend even the social and physical limits imposed on humankind?
e-flux Books
Posted: September 1, 2015
Category
Museums, Communism, Posthumanism, Marxism
Subjects
Museology, Historicity & Historiography, Russia, Soviet Union, Cosmism, The Cosmos
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Communism with a Nonhuman Face
Oxana Timofeeva
The title of this essay paraphrases the famous expression “Socialism with a human face,” which refers back to 1968, to the events in Czechoslovakia known as the Prague Spring, but also to the Soviet 1980s, the time of the late Soviet Union prior to perestroika, when the idea of changing the very nature of so-called “really existing socialism” from the inside according to human/democratic values was still popular among dissidents. Apparently, it was not a renewed and more refined socialism,…
e-flux Journal
Posted: October 1, 2013
Category
Communism, Human and Civil Rights, Literature
Subjects
Human - Nonhuman Relations, Animals, Universalism, Revolution