Devin Fore
Biographic Data
| ID | 596881 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Devin Fore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Devin |
| FAMILY NAME | Fore |
| SIGNATURE | FORE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deutsches Historisches Institut Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Proletarian Feedback
One glaring problem that faced the Bolsheviks upon seizing power was the absence of their vaunted class subject. The party had led a successful revolution in the name of the industrial worker, but once the dust settled after the civil war, reality exposed the proclaimed "dictatorship of the proletariat" to be little more than an empty slogan for propagandists. The proletariat was a historico-philosophical no-show. Its truancy had a number of reas…
On Leo Bersani
Ten writers-Zahid R. Chaudhary, Anne A. Cheng, Joan Copjec, Tim Dean, David L. Eng, David Halperin, David Kurnick, D. A. Miller, Mignon Nixon, and Spyros Papapetros-celebrate the recently departed Leo Bersani
The GAKhN Dictionary
Devin Fore introduces the GAKhN Dictionary of Artistic Terms (1923-29), a selection of which is published in translation here for the first time. After a brief history of the State Academy of Artistic Sciences (GAKhN), which was established in 1921 and dissolved in 1930, Fore situates the unfinished collaboration between the academy's Section of Visual Arts and the Philosophical Department in the context of GAKhN's larger commitment to democratiz…
History and Obstinacy
"If Marx’s opus Capital provided the foundational account of the forces of production in all of their objective, machine formats, what happens when the concepts of political economy are applied not to dead labor, but to its living counterpart, the human subject? The result is Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt’s History and Obstinacy, a groundbreaking archaeology of the labor power that has been cultivated in the human body over the last two thousand…
An Introduction to Kluge and Negt
Anticipating the publication later this year of the English edition of History and Obstinacy, this issue of October presents three texts related to this epochal book by Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge: the volume's third chapter and philosophical nucleus, "Elements of a Political Economy of Labor Power"; an interview with Negt and Kluge, made shortly after the appearance of the original edition, which provides a concise introduction to the book's …
The Metabiotic State
One of the most important units within Dziga Vertov's conceptual system is the lexeme that means BOND. It recurs throughout his writings, most often appearing as the noun sviaz' although sometimes it also surfaces as the verb sviazat' ("to link"). Occasionally it is alloyed with a second lexeme to forge strange and unprecedented compounds, as in Vertov's definition of "kino-eye" as a "film-bond [kino-sviaz'] between the peoples of the USSR and th…
Un ensevelissement sous les feuilles
Cet article est consacré à Bebuquin II, l'autobiographie inachevée dont Carl Einstein entama la rédaction dans les années 1920. Il s'agit de reprendre l'analyse livrée par Einstein du passage du cubisme analytique au cubisme synthétique et, à partir de là, d'examiner l'économie mnémonique singulière de Bebuquin II. De manière paradoxale, Einstein se donnait pour objectif, dans l'enquête autobiographique, la destruction du moi. Il concevait Bebuqu…
Between Athlos and Arbeit
This essay looks at the role of myth in Cement, an early 1970s play written by the East German playwright Heiner Müller in the wake of the New Economic System of Plan and Control. By “updating” myths of labor (e.g., the myths of Prometheus and Hercules), Müller explores the dialectic of anthropomorphism and abstraction that structures modern production. Müller also considers mythical thinking itself a force of production and a technology; it is, …
Dziga Vertov, The First Shoemaker of Russian Cinema
We are told that the mechanization of production has dire effects on the functionality of language as well as human capacities for symbolic communication in general. This expropriation of language by the machine results in the deterioration of the traditional political public sphere, which once privileged language as the exclusive medium of intersubjectivity and agency. The essay argues that the work of the Soviet media artist Dziga Vertov, espec…
The Entomic Age
The Operative Word in Soviet Factography
October 01 2006 The Operative Word in Soviet Factography DEVIN FORE DEVIN FORE DEVIN FORE teaches at Princeton University, where he is an Assistant Professor in the German Department and an affiliated faculty member of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information DEVIN FORE DEVIN FORE teaches at Princeton University, where he is an Assistant Pr…
Döblin's Epic
The Operative Word in Soviet Factography
October 01 2006 The Operative Word in Soviet Factography DEVIN FORE DEVIN FORE DEVIN FORE teaches at Princeton University, where he is an Assistant Professor in the German Department and an affiliated faculty member of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information DEVIN FORE DEVIN FORE teaches at Princeton University, where he is an Assistant Pr…
Dziga Vertov, The First Shoemaker of Russian Cinema
We are told that the mechanization of production has dire effects on the functionality of language as well as human capacities for symbolic communication in general. This expropriation of language by the machine results in the deterioration of the traditional political public sphere, which once privileged language as the exclusive medium of intersubjectivity and agency. The essay argues that the work of the Soviet media artist Dziga Vertov, espec…
The Operative Word in Soviet Factography
October 01 2006 The Operative Word in Soviet Factography DEVIN FORE DEVIN FORE DEVIN FORE teaches at Princeton University, where he is an Assistant Professor in the German Department and an affiliated faculty member of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information DEVIN FORE DEVIN FORE teaches at Princeton University, where he is an Assistant Pr…
Döblin's Epic
The Entomic Age
Between Athlos and Arbeit
This essay looks at the role of myth in Cement, an early 1970s play written by the East German playwright Heiner Müller in the wake of the New Economic System of Plan and Control. By “updating” myths of labor (e.g., the myths of Prometheus and Hercules), Müller explores the dialectic of anthropomorphism and abstraction that structures modern production. Müller also considers mythical thinking itself a force of production and a technology; it is, …
Dziga Vertov, The First Shoemaker of Russian Cinema
We are told that the mechanization of production has dire effects on the functionality of language as well as human capacities for symbolic communication in general. This expropriation of language by the machine results in the deterioration of the traditional political public sphere, which once privileged language as the exclusive medium of intersubjectivity and agency. The essay argues that the work of the Soviet media artist Dziga Vertov, espec…
Un ensevelissement sous les feuilles
Cet article est consacré à Bebuquin II, l'autobiographie inachevée dont Carl Einstein entama la rédaction dans les années 1920. Il s'agit de reprendre l'analyse livrée par Einstein du passage du cubisme analytique au cubisme synthétique et, à partir de là, d'examiner l'économie mnémonique singulière de Bebuquin II. De manière paradoxale, Einstein se donnait pour objectif, dans l'enquête autobiographique, la destruction du moi. Il concevait Bebuqu…
The Metabiotic State
One of the most important units within Dziga Vertov's conceptual system is the lexeme that means BOND. It recurs throughout his writings, most often appearing as the noun sviaz' although sometimes it also surfaces as the verb sviazat' ("to link"). Occasionally it is alloyed with a second lexeme to forge strange and unprecedented compounds, as in Vertov's definition of "kino-eye" as a "film-bond [kino-sviaz'] between the peoples of the USSR and th…
History and Obstinacy
"If Marx’s opus Capital provided the foundational account of the forces of production in all of their objective, machine formats, what happens when the concepts of political economy are applied not to dead labor, but to its living counterpart, the human subject? The result is Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt’s History and Obstinacy, a groundbreaking archaeology of the labor power that has been cultivated in the human body over the last two thousand…
An Introduction to Kluge and Negt
Anticipating the publication later this year of the English edition of History and Obstinacy, this issue of October presents three texts related to this epochal book by Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge: the volume's third chapter and philosophical nucleus, "Elements of a Political Economy of Labor Power"; an interview with Negt and Kluge, made shortly after the appearance of the original edition, which provides a concise introduction to the book's …
The GAKhN Dictionary
Devin Fore introduces the GAKhN Dictionary of Artistic Terms (1923-29), a selection of which is published in translation here for the first time. After a brief history of the State Academy of Artistic Sciences (GAKhN), which was established in 1921 and dissolved in 1930, Fore situates the unfinished collaboration between the academy's Section of Visual Arts and the Philosophical Department in the context of GAKhN's larger commitment to democratiz…
On Leo Bersani
Ten writers-Zahid R. Chaudhary, Anne A. Cheng, Joan Copjec, Tim Dean, David L. Eng, David Halperin, David Kurnick, D. A. Miller, Mignon Nixon, and Spyros Papapetros-celebrate the recently departed Leo Bersani
Proletarian Feedback
One glaring problem that faced the Bolsheviks upon seizing power was the absence of their vaunted class subject. The party had led a successful revolution in the name of the industrial worker, but once the dust settled after the civil war, reality exposed the proclaimed "dictatorship of the proletariat" to be little more than an empty slogan for propagandists. The proletariat was a historico-philosophical no-show. Its truancy had a number of reas…
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