Table of Contents
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xxiii
Part I Labor and Nature
1 Alexander Bogdanov: Workings of the World
Lenin's Rival 3
Red Mars 8
The Philosophy of Living Experience 13
Toward a Comradely Poetics of Knowledge and Labor 25
Red Hamlet: From Shakespeare to Marx 30
From Marx to Proletkuft 34
From Dialectical Materialism to Tektology 40
Tektology as Metaphoric Machine 49
Blood Exchange 57
2 Andrey Platonov: A Proletarian Writing
Son of Proletkult 62
Chevengur as Historical Novel 69
Chevengur as Utopia 76
Foundation Pit Impossibe Infrastructure 83
Happy Moscow. Superstructural People 89
The Soul of Man Under Communism 97
Socialist Tragedy 103
The Factory of Literature 107
Part II Science and Utopia
3 Cyborg Donna Haraway: Techno-science Worlds and Beings
The California Ideology 117
From Mach to Feyerabend 123
From Marx to Haraway 132
From Bogdanov to Barad 152
Climate Science as Tekfology 166
4 Kim Stanley Robinson: The Necessity of Creation
Return to Red Mars 183
Green Mars: Tektology as Revolution 195
Blue Mars: After Utopia 204
Conclusion 213
Notes 227
Index 271