Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (London: Penguin, 1976).
See Jean-François Lyotard, Libidinal Economy (London: Continuum, 2004).
Ibid., 87.
“The Desire Named Marx,” chap. 3 in ibid., 94–145.
Lev Vygotsky, chap. 2 in Mishlenie i Rech (Thinking and Speaking) (Moscow: Labyrinthe, 1999 (1934
With the phrase “realistic thinking,” Vygotsky refers to thought that is not “autistic” and self-referential—thought that is counter-individualistic and tied to reality.
Vygotsky, Mishlenie i Rech, 50–73.
Degot, “Ot Tovara k Tovarishu” (From commodity to comrade), Logos 5/6 (2004) →
See the documentary Liebte der Osten Anders? - Sex im Geteilten Deutschland (Do communists have better sex?: Sex in divided Germany) (Germany: MDR, 2007).
Aaron Schuster, “Sex and Antisex,” Cabinet 51 (2013).
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, vol. 21, trans. James Strachey (London: Hogarth, 1955), 105.
Andrei Platonov, “The River Potudan,” in Soul and Other Stories, trans. Robert and Elizabeth Chandler and Angela Livingstone (New York: New York Review Books Classics, 2008).
Schuster, “Sex and Antisex.”
Kollontai, “Sexual Relations and the Class Struggle,” in Alexandra Kollontai: Selected Writings, trans. Alix Holt (New York: W.W. Norton, 1977).
