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Subject: [commoning] Two Events Celebrating the Life and Contribution of
Alexander Bogdanov
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The Centre for Systems Studies

Online, 2 - 3 June

Two Events Celebrating the Life and Contribution of Alexander Bogdanov

Alexander Bogdanov was one of the most creative and inspiring figures of
the 20th Century. His utopian novel, Red Star, started the genre of
Bolshevik science fiction, and he was the founder of the world’s first
haematology institute. He was a leader of the Russian Bolsheviks,
working with Lenin, at the turn of the last century, and he produced the
first systematic study of ideology, consciousness, and cultural hegemony
from a Marxian point of view, decades before the emergence of so-called
critical, western, or neo-Marxist approaches.

The year 2021 marks the centenary of the beginning of the demise of
Bogdanov. Lenin republished his Materialism and Empiriocriticsm and
launched an attack on Proletkult in 1920, which resulted in Bogdanov
stepping down from his role in this movement in the following year. With
Stalin’s rise to power and Bogdanov’s early death in 1928, one of the
most significant contributions made to human culture was lost for
several decades.

The rediscovery of Bogdanov’s work began in Russia in the 1960s.
Official recognition of Bogdanov and his place in history occurred in
the Glasnost and Perestroika period of the late 1980s. Since then,
Bogdanov’s work has gained increasing acclaim in his homeland and
beyond. As renowned systems thinker Fritjof Capra famously pointed out,
Bogdanov’s “Tektology was the first attempt in the history of science to
arrive at a systematic formulation of the principles of organization
operating in living and nonliving systems”. Since Capra made this claim
in 1996, Bogdanov has been recognised as the first systematiser of
systems thinking. However, the deserved global full recovery and
recognition of Bogdanov’s contribution has yet to come about. But, a
century after the beginning of his demise, it seems like a breakthrough
is happening. In 2019, the first Systems World of Bogdanov conference
was organised by the Financial University in Moscow, with more than 105
papers being presented. The second of these biennial conferences is
planned for the autumn of 2021.

With the aim of promoting awareness of Bogdanov’s work, the Centre for
Systems Studies is hosting two associated events that celebrate his life
and contribution. The first of these events is the Annual Mike Jackson
Lecture and the second one is an online mini-symposium. Please note that
you will need to register for each event separately (registering for one
doesn’t automatically give you access to the other).

Event Page:
https://execeducation.hull.ac.uk/the-centre-for-systems-studies-annual-mike-jackson-lecture/
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