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