Issue #48 Communism with a Nonhuman Face

Communism with a Nonhuman Face

Oxana Timofeeva

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Issue #48
October 2013










Notes
1

See Vincenzo Maurizi, History of Seyd Said, Sultan of Muscat (Cambridge: Oleander Press, 2013), 67–103.

2

Eugene Ostashevsky, “Selections from the Triumph of Agriculture,” The American Poetry Review (July 2005)

3

Ibid.

4

Fredric Jameson, The Seeds of Time (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), 97. See also Jonathan Flatley, Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009) 180.

5

Andrei Platonov, Chevengur, trans. Anthony Olcott (Ann Arbor: Ardis Press, 1978), 198.

6

Платонов А. Ювенильное море // Платонов А. На заре туманной юности, 294. (Trans. by author.)

7

Platonov, “Soul,” in Soul and Other Stories, trans. Robert and Elizabeth Chandler (New York: New York Review Books, 2008), 27.

8

Walter Benjamin, “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” inIlluminations: Essays and Reflections (New York: Schocken Books, 2007), 254.

9

Платонов А. Взыскание погибших. (Trans. by author.) See .

10

Gilles Deleuze, “Literature and Life,” in Essays Critical and Clinical (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,1997), 4.

11

Ibid.

12

Platonov, “Soul,” 22–24, italics added.

13

Ibid., 103.

14

Платонов А. Ювенильное море // Платонов А. На заре туманной юности, 302.

15

“The regressive metamorphoses of ‘Rubbish Wind’ suggest that in the fascist ‘kingdom of appearances’ all is not as it seems. In this kingdom of beasts evolution moves on the opposite direction, i.e. toward a human degradation, and this results in the animalization of man and a racist society that expels defective “subhumans” as extraneous zoomorphic beings” Hans Günther, “A mixture of living creatures: Man and Animal in the Works of Andrei Platonov,” Ulbandus: The Slavic Review of Columbia University (2012), 14, p. 271.

16

Platonov, “Rubbish Wind,” in The Return and Other Stories, trans. Angela Livingstone and Robert Chandler (London: Harvill Press, 1999), 82.

17

See Giorgio Agamben, Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive, trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen (Boston: Zone Books, 2002).

18

Walter Benjamin, “Franz Kafka: On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death,” in Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (New York: Schocken Books, 2007), 132.

19

Slavoj Žižek, Living in the End Times (New York: Verso, 2010), 370.

20

Fredric Jameson, The Seeds of Time, 125.

21

Žižek, Living in the End Times, 368.