Portal:Tektology

The Tektology Portal

Our interest in Tektology is not about reverence for historic texts, but rather how we might better understand contemporary needs for the better organisation of knowledge.

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Lynn Mally on Proletkult and Amateur Theatre in Russia

Lynn Mally is Professor Emerita of History at the University of California, Irvine.

Podcast by Lynn Mmally and Bradley Tuck, Exploding Appendix

This was a session of the Exploding Appendix Avant-garde Art Practice and Research Group held on 18 May 2021

Lynn Mally's books are:

Culture of the Future: The Proletkult Movement in Revolutionary Russia (1990) Berkeley: University of California Press
Revolutionary Acts: Amateur Theater and the Soviet State, 1917-1938 (2000) Ithaca, NY:Cornell University Press

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Alexander Bogdanov wrote a number of texts where he outlined his concept of Tektology as a science of organisation:

Essays in Tektolgy translated by George Gorelick, (1980) Seaside, California:Intersystems Publications

These first appeared as a series of articles Очерки организационной науки (Essays in Organisation Science) Proletarskaya Kul'tura, a journal published by Proletkult:

Proletarskaya Kul'tura No.7-8, April–May, 1919 (1919) pp 8-29

Proletarskaya Kul'tura No.9-10, June–July, 1919 (1919) pp 5-20

Proletarskaya Kul'tura No.11-12, December, 1919 (1919) pp 10-26

Proletarskaya Kul'tura No.13-14, January-March, 1920 (1920) pp 16-42

Proletarskaya Kul'tura No.15-16, April-July, 1920 (1920) pp 6-38

Proletarskaya Kul'tura No.17-19, August-December, 1920 (1920) pp 6-32

Proletarskaya Kul'tura No.20-21, January-June, 1921 (1921) pp 4-19

They were subsequently published together in a single volume: Очерки организационной науки (Essays in Organisational Science) Samara

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