![]() It demands floating structures, a physical-dynamic architecture. “The idea of the conquest of the substructure, the earthbound, can be extended even further and calls for the conquest of gravity as such. In this lies the distinctive character and essence of the epoch.” ⎯ I. The speed of socialist building outstrips the most audacious daring. The contours of socialism will become overgrown with iron flesh, filled with electric blood, and begin to dwell full of life. “Utopia transforms itself into actuality. To you who accept the legacy of Russia, to you who will (I believe!) tomorrow become masters of the whole world, I address the question: with what fantastic structures will you cover the fires of yesterday?” ⎯ Vladimir Maiakovskii, “An Open Letter to the Workers” (1918) The palaces of yesterday’s grandeur stand as burnt-out skeletons. The twin fires of war and revolution have devastated both our souls and our cities. Krisis: Journal for contemporary philosophy.Reification of Persons and Personification of Things.Past Visions of the Future Science fiction and the slaughter-bench of History Art/Architectural Links Zukhra Kasimova on A black man in Turkmenistan: Langston Hughes’ 1932 account of Soviet Central Asia.Olga on Foreign architects in the Soviet Union during the first two five-year plans.Communist Reading List (Ultra-Left) – Tenants + Movements on Don’t bother reading Settlers.WAS LE CORBUSIER A FASCIST? Well, Yes, But… | Knowing God on Le Corbusier’s project for the Palace of the Soviets (1928-1931).WAS LE CORBUSIER A FASCIST? Well, Yes, But… | Knowing God on Le Corbusier’s Tsentrosoiuz building in Moscow (1928-1936) over the years.Conrad Skinner on Architectural compositions by Iakov Chernikhov, 1924-1931.Cognicide on Graham Greene’s infamous review of Wee Willie Winkie (1937), starring Shirley Temple.on Henri Lefebvre and Marxism: A view from the Frankfurt School Wiiides - But Is It Art? - Converging Currents on Lissitzky, Wolkenbügel (1924).PanEtRosa on Don’t bother reading Settlers.tray_piz on Early Marxist criticisms of Freudian psychoanalysis: Karl Korsch and Georg Lukács.nunurbzns on Karl Marx: Prometheus and Lucifer.1929 letter from Varlam Shalamov to the director of OGPU Malevich derived the faceting of space and figure from techniques popular among many well-known Western European Cubists and Futurists whose works were reproduced in art magazines and exhibited in Russia.Issue seven release party for Hard Crackers this weekend.Remembering Rosa Luxemburg, 150 years after her birth.Lazar Khidekel’s aerial city of the future (1925-1932).Early Soviet avant-garde journal of Contemporary Architecture, 1926-1930.Grigory Yudin on the antiwar protests in Russia.Public discussion on “War and Capitalist Crisis” in NYC.Yuri Rozhkov’s photomontages for the Mayakovsky poem “To the Workers of Kursk” (1924).Special issue of Insurgent Notes on the conflict in Ukraine.
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