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# 153
From the Organizational Point of View: Bogdanov and the Augustinian Left, Part 2
Rodrigo Nunes
For Dri
Continued from Part 1
Bogdanov in the Anthropocene
There is much in Aleksander Bogdanov to make him appear as a contemporary for those of us living in the so-called Anthropocene: the view of the universe, and by extension the planet, as a self-organized process in which everything is connected; the emphasis on the entropic force of disorganization and the constant tension between the activities-resistances of humans and their milieu; the certainty of the…
e-flux Journal
Posted: April 7, 2025
Category
Technology, Philosophy, Communism, Marxism , Nature & Ecology
Subjects
Soviet Union, Climate change
# 152
From the Organizational Point of View: Bogdanov and the Augustinian Left, Part 1
Rodrigo Nunes
What is, then, organization? Aleksandr Bogdanov’s Essays in Tektology offers two distinct and complementary definitions, one indirect, the other explicit. If human labor discovers that “any product is a system organized from material elements by means of joining them with the elements of energy of human labor,” then it is possible to generalize from this that organization consists of the joining of elements through the expenditure of energy. “No conjunction whatsoever—not only this, biological, but none whatsoever, in the most general tektological sense of the word—can occur without an expenditure of activities,” hence also energy.
e-flux Journal
Posted: March 4, 2025
Category
Technology, Philosophy, Communism, Marxism
Subjects
Soviet Union