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Work Flows investigates the emergence of flow as a crucial metaphor within Russian labor culture since 1870. Maya Vinokour frames concern with fluid channeling as immanent to vertical power structureswhether 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.

The literary, philosophical, and official texts that Work Flows 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

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      Publisher Cornell University Press
      Published 22 January 2024
      ISBN-13 9781501773679
      978-1501773679
      ISBN-10 1501773674
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Work Flows investigates the emergence of flow as a crucial metaphor within Russian labor culture since 1870. Maya Vinokour frames concern with fluid channeling as immanent to vertical power structureswhether 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.

      The literary, philosophical, and official texts that Work Flows 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

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