Aleksandr Bogdanov’s Tektology
A Proletarian Science of Construction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21816258 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simona Poustilnik (Film Independent, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 140-151 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Science Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1836-0416 • E-ISSN: 1836-0416 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.2478/csj-2021-0011 |
| OpenAlex | W4210385967 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 5 |
Russian Darwinism developed without Malthus – without the struggle for existence. There is a remarkable link connecting the understanding of the Russian Darwinists of ‘natural podbor ’ as ‘fine-tuning’ by nature and Aleksandr Bogdanov’s concept of tektological ‘podbor’ (‘assembling’) as the universal mechanism of the construction of any organization. Bogdanov’s conception of the universal phenomenon of ‘organization’ as an expedient combination of active elements and his attempt to construct a collective tektological ‘personality-organization’ possessed a conceptual creative power and influenced the work of the Soviet Constructivists. Conceptions of ‘assembling’ similar to those expressed in Tektology provided Constructivists with a scientific rationale, projects and terminology for their experiments in a new ‘production art’. They constructed expedient and functional art objects from a tektological point of view – as organizational art objects. Tektological ‘ podbor ’ – ‘assembling’ as a universal mechanism for construction – provided the Constructivists with a real method for constructing an expedient art-object by way of a ‘cinematic assembly’ of the elements
Epistemology · Linguistics · Political science · Proletariat · Sociology · Terminology · Computer Science · European Linguistics and Anthropology · History · Law · Philosophy · Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry · Soviet and Russian History
| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |