Index
Abalakova, Natalya, 250, 251
Abrahamic war machine, 408
absolute, concept of, 214
abstractionism, 127
actionism, 11, 346, 348, 349, 350
activist art, 14
Adorno, Theodor, 145, 152, 153, 154
aesthetic nature of Soviet
communism, 218
aestheticization of politics, 381
aesthetics: as the politicization of art,
381; politicization of, 123
Against All movement, 347
Agamben, Giorgio, 137, 234
algorithms, 64-5
alienation, paradox of, 209-30
Alpeev, Gudym, 293, 298
AlphaGo program, 414
An-Os, 378
angels, history of, 111-25
Angels of History, 112-14
"Angels of History - Moscow
Conceptualism and its
Influences", 114
Anikina, Alex, How to Operate as a
Human Artist, or the Antichthon,
16,433-60
Anthropocene, 464
anthropomorphization of plants,
464
anti-communism, 315
anti-Stalinism, 13
Anufriev, Sergei, 81
Arab Spring, 191
Archive of New Art, 251
archives, 12, 247-58; as sites of
social change, 245; become art
genre, 250; closing and burning
of, 250; of the art of the future,
425-6, 429
Aronson, Oleg 218
art: analogous with crime, 54;
and non-art, 124, 150; basic
characteristics of, 134-5;
communist by nature, 25;
contemporary, training in,
419; documentation of, 61-2;
emptiness of, 368; explosive
production of, 65; form
of, as mediation, 191-208;
institutions of, 120; labeled
as "human-made", 422; local
dialects of, 418; meaning of,
357; political effectiveness of,
55; post-medium condition
of, 415; representational, 429;
transcendence or annihilation
of, 427; truth of, 53-68, 172
(loss of, 55) see also automation
of contemporary art and
borderline, concept of, in art
art technology, 57-8
artist: role of, 416; self-formation
of, 418; takes on function of
institutions, 254
artist-poet, image of, 174
artists, surplus of vision, 65
Aseev, Nikolai, 233
assembly line, 159
Author, 247-58
automation of contemporary art,
413-31
autonomy, 9,120; quest for, 2
avant-garde, 152, 153, 154-5,
182, 184, 204-5, 218, 231-9,
419, 426; definition of, 182;
varieties of, 420
Ayer, A. J., 405
Badiou, Alain, 215, 401
Bakhtin, Mikhail, 221
Backstein, Joseph, 251
Barad, Karen, 400
Barricade collective action, 343
Bataille, Georges, 408-9;
"Materialism", 405; The
Accursed Share, 406
Baudelaire, Charles, 66
Bauhaus, 56
Beckett, Samuel, Waiting for
Godot, 28
becoming a beast, 233
being productive, 372-3
Bèly, Andrei, 152, 153-4, 197
Benjamin, Walter, 62,111,218,
237, 320, 381, 431; "The
Storyteller", 193-7
block chain, 421
BlueSoup Group, 114,116
Boehme, Jakob, 178
Bolshevik Party, 14, 316, 317, 318,
320, 327, 328, 336, 337, 339,
403
Bolshevism, dual nature of, 322
Bombily group, 349
book object, without beginning or
end, 433
borderline, concept of, in art, 123-5
bourgeois revolution, effects of, 213
Brazil, xi
Brecht, Bertolt, 211, 371, 373, 374,
381
Brener, Alexander, 10, 202, 203;
"The First Glove", 202, 341-4;
"The Russian Avant-Garde as an
Uncontrollable Beast", 11, 231-
9; What David Didn't Finish, 343
Breton, André, 59
Brezhnev, Leonid, 114
Buddhism, 80
Budraitskis, Ilya, xiii
bulldozer exhibition, 115
bureaucratization of art, 417
cabotinage, 28
Caillois, Roger, 66
Caligula 2, 265
Camatte, Jacques, 239
camera, use of, 438
canny and uncanny, 403-4
Castaneda, Carlos, The Eagle's Gift,
76
censorship, 65, 119
Center for Independent Social
Research, 363
Center of Cosmic Energy, 33-52
Chakhotkin, Sergei, "To Canossa",
326
Change of Signposts, 325-6, 328
Chechnya, 343
Chernikhov, Iakov, 8
Chernysheva, Olga, "Screens", 10
China, xi; Cultural Revolution, 464
Chizhevsky, Alexander, 7
Christianity, 83-4, 113
"Chto Delat? (What Is To Be
Done?)", 4, 14,16, 371-81
Chubarov, Igor, 127-8, 149
Chukhrov, Keti, 5, 127
civil society, 214
Civil War, reconciliation in, 323
cliché, poetic of, 218
Club of Avantgardists (CLAVA), 114
Collective Actions group, 4, 201
collector, relation with institutional
patron, 417
Committee for State Security
(KGB), x
common, 209-10
communality, 217, 219, 220, 225
communism, 4-5, 9, 23, 25-32, 79,
83,84,91-103, 147, 209-30;
as idea, 211-15; definition of,
political, 215; of the future, 215-
19; of the past, 215-19; project
of, 30 see also desert communism
and War Communism
communist anti-communism, 225
communist capitalism, 217
Communist Party, 119, 327;
leadership of, 81, 82
communitarianism, 214
conceptualism, 12; rejection/
transcendence of, 205 see also
Moscow conceptualism
Congress of Russian Historians, 314
constructivism, x, 56, 185, 415
cosmic energy, 33-52; flows of, 39-
40, 43-4; processing of, 36
cosmism, xiii, xiv, 4-7, 9, 23, 403,
423, 430
cosmonauts, 81
cosmos, 247-58, 403-4; complex
concept, 71
creation, process of, 60
creative activity, value of, 421
creative genius, 416
Crescent Moon, 257
Critchley, Simon, 405
criticism of the Earth, 211-12
cultural production, mass, 66
cut and paste, 68
Dada, 415
De Stijl, 56
death drive, 407
declarations, usefulness of, 372
decommunization, 315
decompositions, 237
Deep Blue, 413
defamiliarization, 380-1
Deleuze, Gilles, 214, 233
Delphi, 39; Temple of Apollo, 42
democracy, 210, 219, 227
Derrida, Jacques, 329
Descartes, René, 223
desert communism, 219-26
Di-Gu, Master, 378
dictatorship of the proletariat, 320,
327
difference, 66
Dionysius the Areopagite, 80
disciplines, boundaries of, 375
Dobychin, Leonid,
"Konopatchikova", 200
Doherty, Melanie, 409
Domestic Services pavilion at
VDNKh, 74-5, 77
Dubossarsky, Vladimir, 114
Duchamp, Marcel, 462; urinal, 183,
193
Durham, Jimmie, 1
Dzerzhinsky, Felix, 333-4, 336
e-flux journal, xii, 4
education, unavoidably evil, 375
Eichenbaum, Boris, 196-7
Eiffel Tower, 57
Elagina, Elena, 250
elitism, 153-4
Engineer's Case, 262
Enlightenment, 212, 225
Essen, caves in, 33
Essen phenomenon, 35
eternal life, 424
eternal present, 313-16
ETI (Expropriation of the Territory
of Art) movement, 203, 346;
"KhUI", 203
"everyone is an artist", 423
exhibition spaces, limitations of, 27
exodus, 214
Facebook, 65
fear of forests see forests, fear of
Fedorov, Nikolay, 5-7, 103, 247,
423,431
Filonov, Pavel, 197, 238, 254
Florensky, Pavel, 238
forests, fear of, 16, 461-5
formalism, 462
France, 227
Frankfurt School, 3
Free the Flagstone, 348
French Republic, 324-5
French Revolution, 6, 211, 324, 329
Freud, Sigmund, 404,405
Friendship of Nations fountain, in
VDNKh, 78
Full Moon, 256-7
Furet, François, 325
futurism, 185
Gagarin, Yuri, 7
Gastev, Alexey, 212
gaze, algorithmic, 65
Georgia, 80-1
Go, 414, 421
Godard, Jean-Luc, 371, 374, 375
Goethe, J. W. von, 150
Golden Ear of Wheat fountain in
VDNKh, 70-83 passim
Google, 64
Gorbachev, Mikhail, x
Gramsci, Antonio, 317, 321
Granilshchikov, Yevgeny, xiii;
"Weakness", 15, 383-90
grapevine transmission of
information, 201
Great Outdoors, 402-3, 405,410
Greenberg, Clement, 10, 151-2,
153-4
Groys, Boris, xii, 3, 8, 11, 149, 225,
228; Communist Post-Script, 217-
18; "Ilya Kabakov.The artist as
storyteller", 198
GULAG, 322, 336
Gundlach, Sven, 81
Gutov, Dmitry, 127-55
happiness, individual, valuing of,
219
Harman, Graham, 400
Hegel, G. W. F., 55, 214, 317, 327,
405,410
Heidegger, Martin, 58
heimlich / unheimlich, 404
Hemingway, Ernest, The Old Man
and the Sea, 354
heritage, of the revolution, 315
hermeneutics: monetization of, 63-4;
on the internet, 64
Hesse, Hermann, 113
historicity, of art, 374
history: of the nation, 313-14; views
of, 264
Hitler, Adolf, 337-4
House of Arts, Lecce, 15
human, concept of, 400
"Hunger Strike", 369
Iceland, 42
ideas and the masses, 379
identities, revolt against, 67
idleness, 239
imagination, political, 13
individualism, 221, 248
individuation, 222, 224
informational story, 204
internet, 127, 201, 417; organization
of, 68; replaces traditional art
institutions, 59-61; surveillance
via, 63
intuition, 37-44; as cognitive
capacity, 36-7; "Close energy",
43-4; of 60 degrees, 39-41; of
place, 38-9; "The throne", 41-3
isms, disrespect for, 234
Italy, 227
Jaspers, Karl, 118
Kabakov, Emilia, xi, 4, 5
Kabakov, Ilya, xi, 4, 5, 117, 119,
120, 198, 199, 201,204, 249,
251; "The Big Archive", 252; The
Letter, 123
Kagarlitsky, Boris, 112
Kandinsky,Vassily, 469
Kandinsky-Clérambault syndrome,
470
Kant, Immanuel, 317, 319, 327
Kapajeva, Maria, "Reading
Apocrypha", 12; "You Can Call
Him Another Man, 267-82
Kasparov, Gary, 413
Khengsen, Sabina, 251
Khlebnikov, Velimir, 197; "The
Menagerie", 236
Khrushchev, Nikita, 2, 115
Kiev, 231
kitsch, 151-3
Klee, Paul, "Angelus novus", 111
Kliuchnikov,Yury, 326
Klutsis, Gustav, 40
knowledge is one, 375
Kokerei, excavations in, 34-5
Kolyma, 336 see also GULAG
Komar,Vitaly, 116, 117, 122; with
Alexander Melamid, Laika, 249
Korina, Irina, 114, 116
Kostyleva, Elena, Why the Chicken
Was Pinched..., 348
Kosuth, Joseph, 119, 121, 193
Krasovskaya, Svetlana, 197
Krauss, Rosalind, 415
Kruchenykh, Alexei, 233, 237-8
Krug club, 175
Kulik, Oleg, 10, 114, 202-3, 348,
349
Kuzkin, Andrey: "Running to the
Nest", 283-300; "To be an Artist
is to be an Indian", 295
Kuznetsova, Anna, 261
Lacan, Jacques, 60, 66,404
language, 187; banality of, 237
Le Bon, Gustave, 217
leaders, 379; surplus of, 380
Lebedev, Rostislav, 251
Lecce, 15
Lefort, Claude, 210, 227
Left Opposition, 322
Leibniz, G. W., 118
Leiderman,Yury, 129,252
Lenin, V. I., 10, 81, 318, 321, 326-7,
333—40; embalming of, 93;
mausoleum of, occupation of,
347; State and Revolution, 320,
322
Levitan, Isaac, Vladimirka, 120-1,
154
Lhasa, 42
Lianosovo Group, 2
Lifshitz, Mikhail, 127, 149, 151, 153,
155
Lissitsky, El, 8; "Lenin on the
Tribunal", 40
literocentricity, 205
Little Wing, 483-5
Lobnoye mesto, 341
Lotman, Yuri, Culture and Explosion,
264
Luddism, 418
Lukâcs, György, 327; "Bolshevism as
a Moral Problem", 318-21; Soul
and Form, 195
Lunacharsky, Anatoly, 328
Luxemburg, Rosa, 317
McDougall, William, 217
Machinsky,Volodya, 289
Magritte, René, 192
Magun, Artemy, 4
Maitre, Joseph de, 324
Makarevich, Igor, 250
making love politically, 381
Malevich, Kazimir, 56, 116,
118, 185, 233-5, 239, 247;
"Suprematism", 40
Mamonov, Bogdan, 127; "A Binary
System", 259-65
Mamonov, Kirill, 263
MANI Albums, 251-2
MANI Files, 250-2
manifestos, writing of, 372
Manipulator, a shifting of values, 1,
2, 288-93; Event No. 3, 294-5;
Event No. 4, 295-300
Marinetti, F.T., 236
Marx, Karl, 10, 147, 149, 211,
212, 213, 235, 238, 336, 359,
423; Economic and Philosophic
Manuscripts, 410
Marxism, 5, 13, 56, 121, 141, 149,
187,316,317,319, 320, 321,
329, 401; liberation of, 317
materialism, 212, 399^112;
democratic, 401
Mavromatti, Oleg, "Don't Believe
Your Eyes", 347
Mayakovsky, Vladimir, xi, 348
McLuhan, Marshall, 57
Medinsky, Vladimir, 323, 325
Medvedkin, Alexander, 197
Meerson, Olga, 222
megalopolis, 464
Meillassoux, Quentin, 400, 402, 405
Melamid, Alexander, 116,117,122
melancholy, 219
messianism, 181
metanoia, 31
Meyerhold, Vsevolod, 28
Michelet, Jules, History of the French
Revolution, 211-12
Michurin, Ivan, 81
microcosm and macrocosm, 428
migrants: payment of, 360-1; project
working with, 353-70; use of
term, 359
Milestone, Jack, 220
Milhaud, Darius, The Bull on the
Roof, 69, 70
Misiano, Viktor, xii, 4, 134, 260
modernism, 124, 419, 426, 427, 428
Molière Qean-Baptiste Poquelin),
120
Monad, 118
Monastyrsky, Andrey, xi, 4, 202, 250,
251; "Dictionary of Terms of
Moscow Conceptualism", 252,
255-7
Monroe, Vlad, 114
Montaigne, Michel de, xiv
Moravec's paradox, 414
Morton, Timothy, 400
Moscow, invisibility of, ix
Moscow Art Magazine, xii, 4
Moscow Biennale of Contemporary
Art, 115
Moscow conceptualism, x, xi, 2, 3, 8,
10, 112, 113, 114, 117, 118, 119,
121, 122, 123, 124, 191-208,
252; archive of, 12, 245; essence
of, 117-20; formation of, 115
museums, 62,426; destruction of,
68; function of, 58-9; of art, 188
(transformation of, 118); post-revolutionary
Soviet, 430; staff of,
experience of artworks, 58; study
of, 204-5; system of, ambivalence
of, 68
Nabokov, Vladimir, 113
narrative, abandonment of, 426
nature: encounter with, 461; taming
of, 463 see also philosophy, of
nature
Nazism, 334, 335, 337, 339
Negarestani, Reza, Cyclonopedia,
407-9
negativity, 218, 219, 221; in
communism, 226-8
Negri, Antonio, 214
NekrasoVjVsevolod, 256
Nemukhin, Vladimir, 249
New Economic Policy, 82, 326
newcomers, 368; use of term, 359
Newton, Isaac, xi
Nietzsche, Friedrich, Birth of Tragedy,
66
Nikolaev, Leonid, Fuckhead Lyonya
Runs on the Feds'Roof, 347-8
Nomadic Theater of the Communist,
25-32
non-identity, desire for, 67
Nosov, Nikolay, 69, 73, 81, 83
Novozhenova, Sasha, 346
October Revolution see Russian
Revolution
oikos, 403
oil: as the black corpse of the sun,
410; as the blood of earth, 408;
as the lifeblood of war, 407-9;
materialist history of, 399-412
Olivier, Bonita, 148-9
organs of the body, improvement of,
423-4
Orlov, Boris, 251
Osborne, Peter, 193
Osminkin, Roman, 363
Osmolovsky, Anatoly, 10, 114, 127-
55; The Journey of Netseziudik to
the Land of the Brobdingnagians,
xi, 348
Otsovsky, Otto, 478
ownerless property, 224
Pastor journal, 252
Paul, Saint, 79
Pavlensky, Pyotr, 341-2, 350;
action events of, 344-6;
Fixation, 346; Freedom, 344;
Threat, 344
Pelevin, Viktor, 399
Pepperstein, Pavel, 4; "The
Skyscraper-Cleaner Pine
Marten", 16-17, 467-87
Perestroika, x, 114, 115,210, 217,
253
Pershina-Yakimanskaya, Natalia
(Gluklya), "The Utopian Union
of the Unemployed", 4, 353-71
philosophy, 6, 7, 401; of angels,
112-4; of nature, 399-400,401-2
photography, 422, 424
Pilnyak, Boris, 197
pine marten, 467-87
Pivovarov, Victor, "Projects for a
Lonely Man", 199
PIZDA group, 84
Platonov, Andrey, 197-8, 221-3, 403
Plavinsky, Dmitry, 249
Pobyl, Nikolai Lvovich, 296
poet, more than a poet, 123
poetry, 29; limitations of, 26; role of,
176
politicization of art, 381
politics, 311 ; aestheticization of, 123;
ethics of, 13
Pollock, Jackson, drip art of, 428-9
Pop Art, 122
postcommunism, 216, 220
postmodernism, 249
Prajapati, 77-8, 85
Prigov, Dmitry A., xi, 3, 10, 251;
Manifestos, 171-89
private property, 219
progress, notion of, 397
Proletkult, 204
Prometheus, 75
prostitutes, 345
public property, 224
public sphere, disrespect for, 210
Puni, Ivan, 40
Pushkin, Alexander, 152
Pussy Riot, 347, 348, 350
Putin, Vladimir, 314, 341
RaadjWalid, 204, 205
Radek group, 10
Rancière, Jacques, 227, 343, 350
Rauschenberg, Robert, 1938
rayonism, 238
re-familiarization, 222
reading, utility of, 378-9
realism, 127
Red Square, 341-2, 346
repentance, moral, 315
representation, 234
res communis, 224, 225
resistance, ethics of, 14
resurrection of the dead, 423
return of the repressed, 404
revolution, possibility of, 403
roboformalism, 420,422, 425
robographies, 421
Rodchenko, Alexander, 425;
"Linearism", 40
Roginsky, Mikhail, 249
Romanticism, 416, 420
ROSTA Windows, 197
Rothko, Mark, 153
Rozanova, Olga, 40
Rozenfeld, E., 44-6
Russia, historical, 323, 325-9
Russian Revolution, x, 14,40, 84,
123, 200, 223, 316-23; caused by
the sun, 91-103; centenary of, 1,
313-14; negative aspect of, 323;
viewed through storytelling, 197
sacrality of the profane, 210, 225
sacralization, 58; second, 179-80
sacro-cularization, second, 179-89
Salnikov, Vladimir, 127-8
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 60
Schelling, F. W.J., 404
Schiller, Friedrich, 211
Schmitt, Karl, 326
schools, closing of, 375
Schopenhauer, Arthur, The World as
Will and Representation, 234
secret, knowledge of, 63
self-criticism, 223
self-driving automobile, 413, 415
self-education, 375-6
Semenev, Julian, Seventeen Moments
of Spring, 407
senile idealism, 407
sense of humor, 475
ShalamoVjVarlam, 322
Sharshun, Serge, 238
sincerity, enemy of artist, 56
skaz narrative form, 196-7; in
Moscow conceptualism, 198
Skersis, Victor, 250
Sky, 255
Slogan-77,304
socialism, 79, 225, 249, 318, 319;
really existing, 216
Socialist International, 317
socialist realism, 118, 148
solidarity, 214
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, One Day in
the Life of Ivan Denisovich, 322
Sots Art, 122, 249, 251
sovereign self-identification, 67
space flight, 7, 248
spectator, on the internet, 64
Sretensky Boulevard, 2
Stakhanov, Alexey, 82
Stalin, Joseph, 80, 93, 217, 321, 329,
338
Starry Night Sky, 257
state, 319-20; ethical, 321; withering
away of, 320
Steyerl, Hito, 204, 205
storyteller, figure of, disappearance
of, 203
storytelling, 11, 191-208 passim-,
history of, 196
subjectivity, as technical
construction, 63
subjugation, to the dominant class,
374
subversive affirmation, 380-1
Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius, The
Lives of the Twelve Caesars, 264-5
Sumnina, Masha, 289
Sun, 255-6
survival, intellectual, 9, 124
Swift, Jonathan, xi
Taoism, 80
Tarde, Gabriel, 217
Tarkovsky, Andrey, The Stalker,
221
Tatlin, Vladimir, 118, 185, 233;
"Tower", 40, 41
Taxiphote, 260, 265
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, xiii
temporality, construction of, 23
Ter-Oganyan, Avdei, Young Atheist,
347
Terentiev, Igor, 233, 236
Thacker, Eugene, In the Dust of This
Planet, 401, 401
The Worker and the Collective Farm
Woman statue, 75
theater, 25-32; public nature of, 28
Theater for Migrants, 353
Thermidor, 328
throne, creation of, 42
time: artistic, 30; directionality of,
426
Timofeeva, Oxana, 4, 16
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 324, 325
Toscano, Alberto, 405
Total Installation, concept of, 122
totalitarianism, 216, 218, 221, 224,
329
transcendent principle of unity, 213
transhumanism movement, 423
triang, 295-300
triangulation points, 296
"Trips to the Countryside", 202
Trotsky, Leon, 93
Tsaplya, Olga Egorova, 363
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin, 7, 81, 423
two, concept of, 263
Ukraine, 191, 333-40 passim",
Maidan protests, 14
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
(USSR), 11, 23, 78-9, 83, 112-
13, 120, 124, 181, 201, 203, 204,
209-30, 323; collapse of, 109
Union of Writers, 172^4
universality, 379
Ursic, Vasilie, 263-4
Ustryalov, Nikolai, 326, 327
utopia, 57, 248, 254
Utopian Union of the Unemployed,
353-70
Vanderlinden, Barbara, 265
VDNKh park, 8, 69-89; as mandala
of government, 71-2, 80;
Exhibition of Achievements of
the National Economy, 70
Venkov, Dmitry, "Krisis", 14, 333-40
Vernadsky, Vladimir, xiii, 7
Vertov, Dziga, 'Kino-Eye', 197-8
video recording of exhibitions, 253
Vidokle, Anton, xii; "The
Communist Revolution Was
Caused by the Sun", 91-103;
This is the Cosmos, 9
viewing of films, utility of, 378-9
Vilensky, Dmitry, xiii, 4, 127,149
Vinogradov, Alexander, 114
violence, divine, 320
Virno, Paolo, 213, 214, 216, 222, 224
Voina group, 347, 350; Prick
Captured by FSB, 349; with
Bombily, Feast (A Wake for
Prigov), 349
Volkov, Vadim, Violent Entrepreneurs,
342
Vygotsky, Lev, 203, 221
Wanderers, 10, 118,142
War Communism, 82
Warhol, Andy, 116
Water Management pavilion at
VNDKh, 73-4
weakest link theory of, 376-7
Weber, Max, 319
Weisberg, Vladimir, 249
Whitehead, Alfred North, 400
working with institutions, 373-4
world, meaning of, 401
world art, 379
writing about art, 2
Xenia organization, 354, 368
Yeltsin, Boris, 202, 341
Young, George M., The Russian
Cosmists, 6
YouTube, 65, 93
Zakharov, Vadim, 250; "An Exchange
of Information with the Sun",
249; "Author, Cosmos, Archive",
11, 247-58; "Postscriptum
after RIP", 253; "The Author
- Monument to Utopia", 254;
"The Park, the Archive et al",
252
Zdanievich, Ilya, 237 Zinoviev, Alexander, 216, 225;
Zhdanov, Ivan, 177 "Communism as a Reality",
Zhigalov, Anatoly, 250, 251 216-17
Zhilyaev, Arseny, 4, 11, 204-5 Zombie formalism, 420
Zhitlina, Olya, 363 Zupancic, Alenka, 404
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