Tomorrow begins yesterday

Data imaginaries in Russian and Soviet science fiction

Bibliographic Data

ID12977800
AuthorsKsenia Tatarchenko (0000-0002-6548-3467, University of Geneva), Benjamin Peters (0000-0002-5298-7375, University of Tulsa, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume9
Issue3
Pages241-251
Publication date2017-09-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueRussian Journal of Communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1940-9427 • E-ISSN: 1940-9419
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/19409419.2017.1376975
OpenAlexW2766934862
LanguageEN
References cited16

This necessarily speculative as well as historically grounded essay examines two key works in the Russian-language literature, Alexander Bogdanov's Red Star (1908. Krasnaia Zvesda: utopia. St. Petersburg: Tovarishchestvo khudozhnikov pechati) and Arkady and Boris Strugatskys’ Monday Begins on Saturday (1965. Ponedel’nik nachinaetsia v subbotu: Skazka dlia nauchnykh rabotnikov mladshego vozrasta. Moskva: Detskaia literatura) for insights into their respective pre-revolutionary and Soviet imaginaries of the relationship between data, statistics, and society. It is argued that each work reveals their own peculiar science fantasy and speculative future rooted in the present, with special comment on the historiographical role of data in shaping the twentieth-century visions of labor and work

Art · Art history · Fantasy · Historiography · Literature · Political science · Sociology · Utopia · Vision · Yesterday · Anthropology · History · Law · Philosophy, History, and Historiography · Russia and Soviet political economy · Soviet and Russian History

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