{"product_id":"work-flows-stalinist-liquids-in-russian-labor-culture-hardback-9781501773679","title":"Work Flows; Stalinist Liquids in Russian Labor Culture (Hardback) 9781501773679","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWork Flows\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eStalinist Liquids in Russian Labor Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMaya Vinokour (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501773679\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 February 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e324 pages, 7 b\u0026amp;w halftones - 7 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.1 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWork Flows\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e investigates the emergence of \"flow\" as a crucial metaphor within Russian labor culture since 1870.\u003c\/b\u003e Maya Vinokour frames concern with fluid channeling as immanent to vertical power structures—whether that verticality derives from the state, as in Stalin's Soviet Union and present-day Russia, or from the proliferation of corporate monopolies, as in the contemporary Anglo-American West. Originating in pre-revolutionary bio-utopianism, the Russian rhetoric of liquids and flow reached an apotheosis during Stalin's First Five-Year Plan and re-emerged in post-Soviet \"managed democracy\" and Western neoliberalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe literary, philosophical, and official texts that\u003ci\u003e Work Flows\u003c\/i\u003e examines give voice to the Stalinist ambition of reforging not merely individual bodies, but space and time themselves. By mobilizing the understudied thematic of fluidity, Vinokour offers insight into the nexus of philosophy, literature, and science that underpinned Stalinism and remains influential today. Work Flows demonstrates that Stalinism is not a historical phenomenon restricted to the period 1922-1953, but a symptom of modernity as it emerged in the twentieth century. Stalinism's legacy extends far beyond the bounds of the former Soviet Union, emerging in seemingly disparate settings like post-Soviet Russia and Silicon Valley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Flow: Resource Management in the Twentieth Century\u003cbr\u003e 1. Self-Discipline and Liquid Channeling in Prerevolutionary Russian Utopianism\u003cbr\u003e 2. Energetic Flows in Fedorov, Gorky, and Bogdanov\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Organic Turn: Labor, Technology, and the Body in Early SovietCulture\u003cbr\u003e 4. Apotheoses of the Organic Turn\u003cbr\u003e 5. Liquids in Socialist Realism I: Reactionary Romanticism\u003cbr\u003e 6. Liquids in Socialist Realism II: Three Case Studies\u003cbr\u003e 7. And Quietly Flows Platonov\u003cbr\u003e 8. 'I Am a Stream of Bright Joy': Daniil Kharms and the LiquidLanguage of Stalinism\u003cbr\u003e After the Future: Stalinist Liquids in Neoliberalism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Northern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52608207388952,"sku":"9781501773679","price":41.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/work-flows-stalinist-liquids-in-russian-labor-culture-hardback-9781501773679","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}