Keynote
John Roberts: Shklovsky, Error and the End of Saint Petersburg
John Roberts (University of Wolverhampton) Shklovsky, Error and the End of Saint Petersburg
John Roberts (University of Wolverhampton) Shklovsky, Error and the End of Saint Petersburg
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
The So-Called Formalist Method (1923) more
Video Essay for Split Screen based on the Berlin-novel “ZOO, or Letters not about Love” (1923) by the Soviet Writer Viktor Shklovsky Germany, 2006 weiterlesen more
A hundred years after the debate between the theories of Formalism and Marxism in post-revolutionary Russia, I intend to re-enact it. more
The ideas I wish to present in my talk were inspired by Viktor Shklovsky's “Monument to a Scientific Error“ (1930). I intend to look at the Methodology of the Error as being one discrete method to speculate on poetic chance more
Project Supporter
Freie Universität Berlin | SFB 626 | Merve Verlag Berlin