... certainly partook of the dominant “productivist” and progressivist ideology of the period, it also explored, sometimes willy-nilly, the revolutionary “event” as something multiple and even uncentered. This paper, focused on the work of Dziga Vertov, investigates a number of ways—including the valorization...

... three-volume study of filmmaker Dziga Vertov is forthcoming. Artemy Magun is a professor at the European University at Saint Petersburg. He also teaches at Saint Petersburg State University (Smolny College), Rus- sia. He is the author of Negative Revolution (2013) and a number of articles...

... Eunuch of the Sou! 379 variations and incarnations of Vii s eye follow. Platonov s creation is the eye that sees but does not comprehend. The eye that knows and does not see, or, to put it differently, the eye that sees only be­ cause it already knows this is Filonov s creation. But there is also Vertov...

... Toscano and Kinkle 2015, from which some of the arguments below are drawn). In the Žlms of Dziga Vertov, the graphic work of El Lissitsky, the photographs of Rodchenko, or the collages of Gustav Klutsis, Tafuri registered an attempt to manage one s own alienation by fusing artistic work with the all...