A Re-Enactment of the 1920s Debates presented by the Retro-Formalism Group in cooperation with Marxism in Culture (University of London) and the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture (University of Westminster) June 4.-5th 2015 Organised by David Cunningham, Anke Hennig, Anthony Iles more

Close Reading

Osip Brik, The So-Called Formalist Method

The So-Called Formalist Method (1923) more

Talk

Ilya Kliger: Shklovsky's "Monument to a Scientific Error" as a Speculative Image

The article attempts to interpret Viktor Shklovsky's essay, “Monument to a Scientific Error,” in light of a reading of its central subtext, Jules Romains’s cine-novel, Donogoo-Tonka, or the Miracles of Science. more

Keynote

John Roberts: Shklovsky, Error and the End of Saint Petersburg

John Roberts (University of Wolverhampton) Shklovsky, Error and the End of Saint Petersburg more

Panel

Updating the Marxism-Formalism Debate

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Screening

Duncan Campbell It for Others

Workshop

Marx, Form, Isms