Walter Benjamin, “Phantasie,” in Gesammelte Schriften, ed. Rolf Tiedemann and Hermann Schweppenhäuser (Suhrkamp, 1991), 4:114.
Discussed in Jochen Schulte-Sasse, “Phantasie,” in Ästhetische Grundbegriffe, ed. Karlheinz Barck et al. (Metzler, 2002), 4:784.
Jean-Paul Sartre, The Imaginary, trans. Jonathan Webber (Routledge, 2004), 183–84.
Ernst Bloch, The Principle of Hope, trans. Neville Plaice et al. (MIT Press, 1986), 79, 92. Bloch distinguishes categorically between the nocturnal dream (Nachttraum) and the daydream (Tagphantasie). In contrast to the former, the latter “does not exclude acuteness and even responsibility precisely of ‘thinking’” (86).
Jean Laplanche and J. B. Pontalis, “Primal Fantasy, Fantasies of Origins, Origins of Fantasy,” trans. Jonathan House, in Dominique Scarfone, Laplanche: An Introduction (Unconscious in Translation, 2015), 114.
D. W. Winnicott, “Dreaming, Fantasying and Living,” in Playing and Reality (Routledge, 2005), 45.
Theodor W. Adorno, “Introduction,” in The Positivist Dispute in German Sociology, trans. Glyn Adey and David Frisby (Heinemann, 1976), 51. Translation modified.
Hyacinthe Dubreuil, Robots or Men?, trans. F. and M. Merrill (Harper, 1930), 121–22.
Georg Lukács, History and Class Consciousness, trans. Rodney Livingston (MIT Press, 1971), 89.
Antonio Gramsci, “Americanism and Fordism,” in The Prison Notebooks, ed. and trans. Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith (International Publishers, 1971), 309–10.
Bernard Doray, From Taylorism to Fordism, trans. David Macey (Free Association Books, 1988), 33.
Il’ia Erenburg, 10 l.s. (Petropolis, 1929), 30, 26.
Karl Marx, “Machinery and Large-Scale Industry,” in Capital, vol. 1, ed. Paul North and Paul Reitter, trans. Paul Reitter (Princeton University Press, 2024).
Aleksei Gastev, “Biometodika, predopredeliaiushchaia orgametodika,” in Trudovye ustanovki, ed. Iu. A. Gastev and E. A. Petrov (Ekonomika, 1973), 163.
Gastev, “Analitika priemov,” in Trudovye ustanovki, 119.
Aleksei Gastev, “Vosstanie kul’tury,” in Kak nado rabotat’, ed. N. M. Bakhrakh et al. (Ekonomika, 1972), 51, 34. On striking versus pressing in Gastev, see Devin Fore, “The Operative Word in Soviet Factography,” October, no. 118 (2006).
N. A. Bernshtein, O lovkosti i ee razvitii (Fizkul’tura i sport, 1991), 112.
Aleksei Gastev, “Kak izobretat’,” in Poeziia rabochego udara (Khudozhestvennaia literature, 1971), 276.
Viktor Pertsov, Reviziia levogo fronta v sovremennom russkom isskustve (Vserossiskii proletkul’t, 1925), 74–75.
Herbert Ihering, “‘Hoppla, wir leben!’ Piscator-Bühne,” in Theater in Aktion (Argon, 1987), 284; Egon Erwin Kisch, Der rasende Reporter (E. Reiss, 1925); and Alfred Döblin, Schriften zu Ästhetik, Poetik und Literatur (Fischer, 2013), 123.
Theodor W. Adorno, “The Actuality of Philosophy,” trans. Benjamin Snow, Telos, no. 31 (1977): 131.
K. Ludwig Pfeiffer, “Dimensionen der ‘Literatur,’” in Materialität der Kommunikation, ed. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht and K. Ludwig Pfeiffer (Suhrkamp, 1988), 732.
Rosemary Jackson, Fantasy (Methuen, 1981), 19.
Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge, Public Sphere and Experience, trans Peter Labanyi et al. (University of Minnesota Press, 1993), 32–38.
Negt and Kluge, Public Sphere and Experience, 34.
Lu Märten, Wesen und Veränderung der Formen und Künste (Werden und Wirken, 1949), 285.
Lu Märten, “Historisch-Materialistisches über Wesen und Veränderung der Künste: Eine pragmatische Einleitung,” in Formen für den Alltag: Schriften, Aufsätze, Vorträge, ed. Rainhard May (Verlag der Kunst, 1982), 64.
Sigmund Freud, “Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming,” in Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, trans. James Strachey (Hogarth Press, 1953) 9:152. Importantly, Freud did not regard fantasies as anthropologically universal, but daydreams that were rooted in specific communities, peoples, and nations: “The study of constructions of folk-psychology such as these is far from being complete, but it is extremely probable that myths, for instance, are distorted vestiges of the wishful phantasies of whole nations, the secular dreams of youthful humanity” (152).
Märten, Wesen und Veränderung, 348.
Jean-Pierre Vernant, “The Reason of Myth,” in Myth and Society in Ancient Greece, trans. Janet Lloyd (Zone Books, 1990), 229.
Märten, Formen für den Alltag, 63.
Carl Einstein, Negerplastik (Verlag der weißen Bücher, 1915).
Carl Einstein, Afrikanische Legenden (Rowohlt, 1925).
Consider Propp’s transition from Morphology of the Folktale, trans. Laurence Scott (University of Texas Press, 1968) to Historical Roots of the Wondertale, trans. Miriam Schrager et al. (Indiana University Press, 2025).
While likely, there is no concrete evidence that Einstein read Totem and Taboo. Andreas Michel, “Formalism to Psychoanalysis: On the Politics of Primitivism in Carl Einstein,” in The Imperialist Imagination: German Colonialism and its Legacy, ed. Sara Friedrichsmeyer et al. (University of Michigan Press, 1998).
Carl Einstein, Werke, ed. Hermann Haarmann and Klaus Siebenhaar (Fannei & Walz, 1992), 4:307–8. On the connections of Einstein’s manual of art to contemporary French anthropology, see Maria Stavrinaki, “Carl Einstein’s History Without Names: From Geology to the Masses,” trans. Zoe Stillpass, Grey Room, no. 62 (2016).
André Leroi-Gourhan, Gesture and Speech, trans. Anna Bostock Berger (MIT Press, 1993); Marcel Mauss, “Techniques of the Body,” in Techniques, Technology and Civilization, ed. and trans. Nathan Schlanger (Durkheim Press, 2006), 92.
Bernhard Siegert, “Attached: The Object and the Collective,” trans. Michael Thomas Taylor, in Cultural Techniques: Assembling Spaces, Texts & Collectives, ed. Jörg Dünne et al. (De Gruyter, 2020), 140.
Bernhard Siegert, Cultural Techniques: Grids, Filters, Doors, and Other Articulations of the Real, trans. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young (Fordham University Press, 2015), 15.
Vilém Flusser, “Eine neue Einbildungskraft,” in Bildlichkeit, ed. Volker Bohn (Suhrkamp, 1900).
Gilbert Simondon, Imagination and Invention, trans. Joe Hughes and Christophe Wall-Romana (University of Minnesota Press, 2022), 31, 43, 7.
Einstein, Werke, 4:338.
Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence, ed. Jeremy Jennings (Cambridge University Press), 118.
John Berger, “The Ideal Palace,” in Keeping a Rendezvous (Pantheon, 1991), 87.
Simondon, Imagination and Invention, 55.
