Walter Benjamin, “Critique of Violence,” in W. Benjamin, Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings, ed. Peter Demetz, trans. Edmund Jephcott (New York: Schocken, 1986), 277–300.)
In his Difference and Repetition, Deleuze famously imagines philosophy not as an exit from the cave, but as eternal nomadic rumination within its labyrinths.
André Lepecki dedicates a book to such a solipsistic derangement: Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement (London: Routledge, 2006).
Available at marxists.org →.
Nikolai Fedorov, “From the First Volume of The Philosophy of Common Task,” in N. Fedorov, Works (in Russian) (Moscow: Misl, 1982), 53–442.
Evald Ilyenkov, Leninskaya Dialektica i metaphizika pozitivizma (Lenin’s dialectics and the metaphysics of positivism) (Moscow: Mir Philosophii, 2015), 102. Lenin’s critique can be found in chapter 6 (“Empirio-Criticism and Historical Materialism”) of his book Materialism and Empirio-Criticism: Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy, available at marxists.org →.
Ilyenkov, Leninskaya Dialektica, 109.
Alexander Bogdanov, Tektology, Book 1, trans. A. Kartashov, V. Kelle, and P. Bystrov (Hull: Centre for Systems Studies Press, 1996).
Ilyenkov, Leninskaya Dialektica, 118.
Ibid., 118–19. According to Ilyenkov, social relations, which are rife with complexities and contradictions, cannot be managed or balanced this way.
Fedorov, “Supramoralism ili Vseobshi Sintez” (Supramoralism, or the overall synthesis), in Works, 473–507.
Pavel Florensky, “Organoproekzia” (The projection of organs), in Russkiy Kosmizm, eds. S. Semenova and A. Gacheva (Moscow: Pedagogika Press), 149–62.
For an English translation of this essay—one that uses the term “spirit” instead of “mind”—see Evald Ilyenkov, “Cosmology of the Spirit,” trans. Giuliano Vivaldi, Stasis 5, no. 2 (2017).
As Ilyenkov writes in the essay: “In this hypothesis of perishability, death appears not as a senseless and fruitless end, but as an act that in its essence is a creative end—a prelude to a new cycle of life for the Universe.”