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Author:   Boris Groys ,  Dr Marcus Hurwitz (Individual philosopher)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:  

9781350457836

ISBN 10:   1350457833
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   19 February 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  

Table of Contents

ToC Introduction: Imagination Degree Zero - Marcus Hurwitz Part One 1. Into the Russian Soul – interview 2. Russland auf der Suche nach Seiner Indentitaet 3. Pavel Filonov’s Life Machines 4. Das Kunstwerk als nicht-funktionale Machine 5. Wisdom as the Feminine World Principle: Vladimir Soloviev’s Sophiology 6. Elements of Gnosticism in Dialectical Materialism 7. Gebaute Idologie 8. Alexandre Kojève: The Artwork as Embodiment of the Aesthetical Judgment 9. Alexander Kojeve: Self Production 10. Lenin’s Image 11. Trotsky, or Metamorphoses of Engagement 12. The Cold War Between the Medium and the Message: Western Modernism vs. Socialist Realism 13. Avant-garde and Politics. The End of Art and the End of Humanism? – interview 14. Soviet Oikonomia – interview 15. Lenin and Lincoln: Two Figures of Modern Death – interview Part Two 16. Anti-Philosophy and the Politics of Recognition 17. Fundamentalism as a Middle Ground between High and Mass Culture 18. Changing Topologies of the Class Struggle 19. Discourses of Distrust: Conspiracy Theories and the Critique of Ideology 20. Totalitarian Legacies Part Three 21. Die dunkle Seite der Kunst 22. Der ein-gebildete Kontext 23. Die Herstellung des Anderen 24. The Museum as Cradle of Revolution 25. The Mimesis of Thinking 26. Exhibiting the Exhibition, or Nostalgia in Reenactment 27. Exhibition in post- Internet 28. The Future Belongs to Tautology 29. Art Topology: The Reproduction of Aura 30. Followership vs. Spectatorship: The Two Regimes of the Contemporary Image 31. Religion in the Age of Digital Reproduction 32. Immortal Bodies 33. Caring For Tradition 34. The Community Without Commonality - interview

Reviews

Why is the internet like the spirit of Napoleon? What do Facebook posts share with Christian icons? Why have we swerved so quickly from neoliberalism to neofascism? And what does Lenin’s mausoleum have to do with the readymade? Like an anthropologist tourguide from a distant planet, Boris Groys answers these questions (and more) with calm detachment—guiding us through cultures of the museum, art history, the internet, and Russia. His counterintuitive connections brilliantly puncture received wisdom, and disrupt canonical truisms with dark and delightful irony. This is cultural critique as pure creativity and philosophical imagination. Reading Groys is a mindblowing trip. * Claire Bishop, artist, critic, Presidential Professor of Art History and Faculty Director of the James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center * Boris Groys’s writings are formative, unpredictable, and always prophetic in their grasp of art’s political metabolism. Few thinkers have written so lucidly about the avant-garde’s utopian exhaustion, the museum’s revolutionary promise, or the artist’s peculiar labor of self-design. Reading Groys has shaped how many of us think and work. This collection captures the full arc of that influence: theoretical, ironic, and strangely intimate. It is both a record and a renewal of the conversation that continues to define contemporary art’s intellectual life. * Anton Vidokle, artist, curator, and founder of E-Flux Journal *

Why is the internet like the spirit of Napoleon? What do Facebook posts share with Christian icons? Why have we swerved so quickly from neoliberalism to neofascism? And what does Lenin’s mausoleum have to do with the readymade? Like an anthropologist tourguide from a distant planet, Boris Groys answers these questions (and more) with calm detachment—guiding us through cultures of the museum, art history, the internet, and Russia. His counterintuitive connections brilliantly puncture received wisdom, and disrupt canonical truisms with dark and delightful irony. This is cultural critique as pure creativity and philosophical imagination. Reading Groys is a mindblowing trip. * Claire Bishop, artist, critic, Presidential Professor of Art History and Faculty Director of the James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center *

Author Information

Marcus Hurwitz is a philosopher, art critic, and writer whose work engages with the historical avant-garde, Moscow Conceptualism, and installation art alongside contemporary French, German, and Russian philosophy.

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