Productivism and its contradictions

Third Text

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 527-536

  Roberts, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arvatov; Constructivism; Factory; Immateriality; Labour; NEP; Production; Productivism; Value; Vitalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 76649086699     PISSN: 09528822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09528820903184609     Document Type: Review

References (24)

1. A shorter version of this article was published in 'What is the Use of Art?', Chto Delat?, no 25, March 2009
2. For a discussion of Gastev, see Brandon Taylor, Art and Literature Under the Bolsheviks, Vol 1, The Crisis of Renewal 1917-1924, Pluto Press, London-Concord, MA, 1991
3. See Victor Margolin, The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1946, University of Chicago, Chicago, 1997
4. Maria Gough, The Artist as Producer: Russian Constructivism in Revolution, California University Press, Berkeley-Los Angeles, 2005. In 1924 the factory rolled alloys and non-ferrous metal and employed 196 workers
5. Christina Kiaer, Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA-London, 2005
6. Boris Arvatov, Kunst und Produktion [1926], Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich, 1972
7. See Gough, The Artist as Producer, 1926], 1972op cit, p 177
8. Arvatov, The Artist as Producer, 1926], 1972op cit, p 13
9. See Ante Ciliga, The Russian Enigma, Ink-Links, London, 1979
10. For a brief discussion of art's relative absence from the law of value, see Karl Marx, Capital, vol 1, Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1970
11. For an extension of this analysis, see I I Rubin, Essays on Marx's Theory of Value, Black and Red, Detroit, 1972
12. See Maria Teresa Cramuglio and Nicolás Rosa, 'Tucumán is Burning', in Listen Here Now! Argentine Art in the 1960s: Writings of the Avant-Garde, ed Inés Katzenstein, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2004
13. For a defence of a quasisecondary Productivist position (the first after Arvatov), see Henri Lefebvre, Critique of Everyday Life, Vol II: Foundations for a Sociology of the Everyday, trans John Moore, intro Michael Trebitsch, Verso, London-New York, 2002
14. For a discussion of Arvatov and the earlier debate on the 'everyday' see John Roberts, Philosophizing the Everyday: Revolutionary Praxis and the Fate of Cultural Theory, Pluto Press, London, 2006
15. See in particular Critical Art Ensemble, The Electronic Disturbance, Autonomedia, Brooklyn, 1994
16. Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics, Verso, London-New York, 1984
17. See for example, the Aufheben Collective's review, 'Value Struggle or Class Struggle?', of Massimo De Angelis's The Beginning of History: Value Struggles and Global Capital, Aufheben, no 16, 2008
18. Franco Berardi (Bifo) 'Schizo-Economy', SubStance, no 112, 36:1, 2007
19. Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello, The New Spirit of Capitalism, Gregory Eliott, trans, Verso, London-New York, 2006
20. Geert Lovink and David Garcia, The ABC of Tactical Media, available online at http:// www.ljudmila.org/nettime/ zkp4/74.htm
21. Gregory Sholette and Gene Ray, eds, 'Reloading Tactical Media: An Exchange with Geert Lovink', Third Text, 94
22. 'Whither Tactical Media?', 22:5, September 2008, p 552
23. David Riff, 'When Art Once Again Becomes Useful', Chto Delat?, no 25, not paginated
24. Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capitalism: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century, Monthly Review Press, New York, 1998