Materialism and Value of Speculation

Organized by the research project Rhythm and Projection. Thinking Possibility in the Soviet Avant-Garde, Peter Szondi-Institute for Comparative Literature, Free University Berlin Habelschwerdter Allee 45, KL 29/137 16:00-16:15 Welcome and Introduction 16:15-17:00 Willi Reinecke Institute for East European Studies, Free University Berlin Speculative materialism in Vygotsky’s notebooks 17:00-17:45 Tobias Dias School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University Rhythms of Real Abstraction, or the ‘Geometry of the Living’ in Hans Richter’s Rhythmus-films and Inflation 17:45-18.00 Break 18:00-18:45 Elena Vogman IKKM Weimar and Rhythm and Projection. Thinking Possibility in the Soviet Avant-Garde, Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature, Free University Berlin Dance of Values. Sergei Eisenstein’s Capital Project 18:45-19:15 Final Discussion