Preliminary program

Wednesday, (Big hall, the hydraulic tower «TBoil - Polytech», Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University, Polytechnicheskaya, 29)

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13:00-14:30 first input introductory lectures Alfred Nordmann

14:45 to 15:45  Иван Аладышкин Ivan Aladyshkin – Technoindividualism, pantechnalism, biocosmism

and other technical limits of anarchist thought in Russia (+trans OLga Sosnina, Iwan Nasedkin)

16:00 to 17:00  Антон Заморев Anton Zamorev – Dialectics: From Socrates to Losev (+trans  Yuri Kotlyar, Alina Keshchyan)

17:30-19:00  the significance of Alexander Bogdanov which includes Lenin’s response to his “empiriomonism.” 

• Omar Koundi – Tektology

• Stefan Günthner – Empiriomonismus-Empiriocriticism (on Bogdanov, Mach, Lenin)

• Marius Gaukler – Red Star

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Thursday,  (Big hall, the hydraulic tower «TBoil - Polytech», Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University, Polytechnicheskaya, 29)

9:30-10:30 Светлана Ульянова Svetlana Ulyanova – Gastev's New Worker (trans Nikita Kychkin)

10:45-12:45  Constructivism – rethinking art, technology, society, and the human being with philosophical reconstruction of aesthetic practice.

• Michaela Lestakova – Constructivism and Industrial Production with special consideration of Lyubov Popova

• Kevin Logan – Laws of Construction with special consideration of Jakob Tschernikow, artist and engineer

• Sven Thomas – Dziga Vertov and Walter Benjamin

14:00-15:00 Вера Серкова Vera Serkova – Nikolai Fedorov about the museum as a form of national memory (1886) (+trans

Ermakova Maria, Mehtieva Lamiya, Antipova Irina)

15-15-16-00 Ирина Березовская  Irina Berezovskaya – The Development of Technocratic Ideas in Russia of the 20-30s.

(+trans Ermakova Maria, Mehtieva Lamiya, Antipova Irina)

16:15-17:45 Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky’s  Theory of the Noosphere/Biosphere/Anthropocene –

as related to Lynn Margulis and James Lovelock (Gaia hypothesis), taken up in the philosophy of George Bataille. 

• Kathrin Hadasch – Noosphere -> Gaia and the Anthropocene (Lovelock, Crutzen)

• Sulamith Weber – Vernadsky -> Bataille

18:00-19:45 Workshop with Наталья Ершова / Natalya Ershova – Constructivism: Short Review 

 

Friday,  (at «Etagi» in the Smolninsky Bread Factory, Ligovskii prospect, 74)

9:30-10:30 Виктория Лобатюк Victoria Lobatyuk – TRIZ (theory of solving inventive problems) in Leningrad

 (+trans Iwan Nasedkin, Lera Enikeeva, Svetlana Novikova)

10:45-12:45 Nikolai Bernstein’s Theory of Motion,

Modelling of Biological Activity and Human Work – in contrast to Ivan Petrovich Pavlov’s conception,

and in relation to Meyerhold’s Biomechanics. 

• Sara Samir – Theory of Motion/Biomechanics

• Yaroslava Solntseva - Biomechanics at the Meyerhold theater

14:00-15:00 Владислава Гайдук Vlada Gaiduk Biomechanics: Meyerhold and Bernstein

(+trans Iwan Nasedkin, Lera Enikeeva, Svetlana Novikova)

guided tour to Peter and Paul Citadel

 

Saturday,  (Big hall, the hydraulic tower «TBoil - Polytech», Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University, Polytechnicheskaya, 29)

9:30 to 11:30 Visions of “The New Human Being”  in Russia with its reception in the West.

• N.N. – Anthropotechnics in the early Soviet Union 

• Meike Wiegand - Lyssenkoism

• Noah Sproß -  Trotsky. conception of the New Human

• Marie-Luise Birlenberg – Trotsky. Art, technology, nature 

12:00 to 14:00 Lev Semjonovich Vygotsky and his culturological gestalt theory and on „speaking and thinking“  –

building on Vygotsky, Georgij Schedrovitsky formulated his „Methodology“ as a technological process of thinking –

influential until today for Russian innovation theory (cf. TRIZ theory). 

• Irina Deryuga – Vygotsky -> Schredovitsky

• Thilo Kogge – Gestalt theory -> machine learning

 

14:00-15:00 wrap-up/conclusions

 

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Yaroslava Solntseva Biomechanics at the Meyerhold theater

Yaroslava Solntseva Biomechanics at the Meyerhold theater