Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, “From Faktura to Factography,” October 30 (Autumn 1984): 94.
Ibid., 109–10.
Yve-Alain Bois, “El Lissitzky: Radical Reversibility,” Art in America 76, no. 4 (April 1988): 161–81.
Vladimir Lenin, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism: Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy (1908), in Collected Works, trans. J. Fineberg and G. Hanna, vol. 31, April–December 1920 (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1966), 17–388.
Alexander Bogdanov, Empiriomonizm: Stat’i po filosofii (Empiriomonism: Articles on philosophy) (1905–06) (Moscow: Knizhnyi Klub Knigovek, 2014).
Alexander Bogdanov, Tektologiia: Vseobshchaia organizatsionnaia nauka (Tektology: The universal organizational science) (1913–21) (Moscow: Ekonomika, 1989). Only the first part of Tektologiia has been translated into English: Alexander Bogdanov, Tektology, Book 1, trans. A. Kartashov, V. Kelle, and P. Bystrov (Hull: Centre for Systems Studies Press, 1996).
See, for example, a militant Leninist critique of Bogdanovist productivism in Anatolii Il’ich Mazaev, Kontseptsiia proizvodstvennogo iskusstva 20-kh godov (The conception of 1920s production art) (Moscow: Nauka, 1975).
See the biography of Platonov by Oleg Lasunskii, Zhitel’ rodnogo goroda (The citizen of a hometown)(Voronezh: Tsentr dukhovnogo vozrozhdeniia Chernozhemnogo kraia, 2007).
See, for example, the biographical sketch of Arvatov in Christina Kiaer, Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005), 27. On the relationship between Proletkult and the artistic avant-garde, see Maria Zalambani, L’Arte Nella Produzione: Avanguardia e rivoluzione nella Russia sovietica degli anni ’20 (Ravenna: Pleiadi, Longo Editore, 1998).
Bogdanov, Empiriomonizm (1905–06), 10–13.
Alexander Bogdanov, The Philosophy of Living Experience: Popular Outlines (1912), trans. D. G. Rowley (Boston: Brill, 2016), 232.
Alexander Bogdanov, “Empiriomonizm” (1913), in Russkii pozitivizm: Lesevich, Iushkevich, Bogdanov, eds. S. S. Gysev, A. F. Zamaleeva, and A. I. Novikova (Saint Petersburg: Nauka, 1995), 213.
Bogdanov, Philosophy of Living Experience, 209.
Together with economist Skvortsov-Stepanov, Bogdanov wrote two volumes presenting an introduction to political economy. My interpretation of Bogdanov’s understanding of use value derives from this work: Alexander Bogdanov and Ivan Stepanov, Kurs Politicheskoi Economii (A course on political economy), 2 vols. (Sankt-Peterburg: Znanie, 1920).
Bogdanov, “Empiriomonizm” (1913), 211.
Bogdanov, Tektology, Book 1, 3. Translation modified. Compare with Bogdanov, Tektologiia, 70.
Ibid.
Alexander Bogdanov, O proletarskoi kul’ture (1904–24) (On proletarian culture (1904–24)) (Moscow: Kniga, 1925).
Osip Brik, “V poriadke dnia” (The order of priority), in Iskusstvo v proizvodstve (Moscow: Khudozhestvenno-Proizvodstvennyi Sovet Otdela IZO Narkomprossa, 1921), 8.
I quote from the Russian publication of the work: Alexei Gan, “Konstruktivizm” (Constructivism) (1922), in Formal’nyi metod: Antologiia russkogo modernizma, ed. S. Oushakine, vol. 1, Systems (Moscow: Kabinetnyi uchenyi, 2016), 894. See also the English translation: Alexei Gan, Constructivism, trans. C. Lodder (Chicago: Tenov Books, 2014).
Kristin Romberg, “Alexei Gan: vvedenie v tektoniky” (Alexei Gan: Introduction to tectonics), in Formal’nyi metod, ed. S. Oushakine, vol. 1, 851–52.
Nikolai Chuzhak, “Under the Banner of Life-Building (An Attempt to Understand the Art of Today)” (1923), trans. C. Lodder, Art in Translation 1, no. 1 (2009): 121.
I refer to the Russian publication of Art and Production: Boris Arvatov, Iskusstvo i Proizvodstvo (Art and Production) (Moscow: Proletkult, 1926), 97. An English version of the book has been recently edited by Alexei Penzin and John Roberts and translated by Shushan Avagyan (Pluto Press, 2017).
Arvatov, Iskusstvo i Proizvodstvo, 117–18, 129–30.
Alexander Bogdanov, Nauka i rabochii class: Doklad, chitannyi na konferentsii Proletarskikh Kul’turno-Prosvetitel’nykh Obshchestv goroda Moskvy 23 fevralia 1918 g. (Science and the working class: Theses presented at the Conference of the Proletarian Cultural-Enlightenment Societies of Moscow, February 1918), 72–73.
Nikolai Tarabukin, Khudozhnik v klube (The artist in a club) (Moscow: VZSPS, 1926), 5–6.
Chuzhak, “Under the Banner of Life-Building,” 142. Translation modified. See the Russian original: “Pod znakom zhiznestroeniia (Opyt osoznaniia iskusstva dnia),” LEF 1 (1923): 38.
Chuzhak, “Under the Banner of Life-Building,” 145.
Andrei Platonov, “Proletarskaia poeziia” (Proletarian poetry) (1922), in Works, vol. 1 (Moscow, IMLI RAN, 2004), 164–65.
Andrei Platonov, “Soul” (1936), in Soul and Other Stories, trans. R. Chandler et al. (London: Vintage, 2013), 50.
Andrei Platonov, Chevengur (1926–28), trans. A. Olcott (Michigan: Ann Arbor, 1978), 236.
Andrei Platonov, “Fabrika literatury” (Factory of literature) (1926), in Works, vol. 8 (Moscow: Vremia, 2011), 51. There is also an English translation, but it was based on the heavily corrected Soviet edition, and some terms are translated incorrectly: Andrei Platonov, “Factory of Literature” (1926), trans. A. Kalashyan, in Molecular Red Reader, ed. McKenzie Wark (London: Verso, 2015), 37–45.
Dziga Vertov, “Kino-glaz 11-yi” (Kino-Eye: The 11th) (1928), in Formal’nyi metod, ed. S. Oushakine, vol. 2, Materials, 116.
Dziga Vertov, “Kino-Eye” (1922), in The Writings of Dziga Vertov, trans. K. O’Brien (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), 66.
Andrei Platonov, “Nevozmozhnoe” (The Impossible) (1921), in Works, vol. 1 (Moscow: Vremia, 2011), 291.
Andrei Platonov, “Efirnyi trakt” (Ethereal Tract) (1927), in Works, vol. 2 (Moscow: Vremia, 2011), 11.
Maria Dmitrovskaia, “Iazyk i sozertsanie A. Platonova” (Language and intuition in Andrei Platonov) (habilitation thesis, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, 1999), 157–59.
Andrei Platonov, The Foundation Pit (1930), trans. R. Chandler, E. Chandler, and O. Meerson (New York: New York Review Books, 2009), 5.
Andrei Platonov, Zapisnye Knizhki (The notebooks), ed. Kornienko, 2nd ed. (Moscow: Nasledie, 2006), 79.
Platonov, The Foundation Pit, 122. Translation modified.
The author thanks Danny Hayward for his help in editing this article.