Alexei Penzin, PhD, is Research Associate at the Sector of Analytical Anthropology, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences. Penzin is contributing author to journals on philosophy, theory and the humanities in Russia and abroad. His current project is a book on cultural representations of sleep in context of “biopolitical” regulations of life under late capitalism. His major fields of interest are Marxism and critical theory, contemporary philosophy, as well as theorizing of interconnections between art and political praxis. Research topics include theories of subjectivity in modern philosophy and political thought, Italian “post-operaismo”, post-Soviet / postcolonial dimension, question of “crude thought” in Brecht and Benjamin, non-dogmatic Soviet Marxist philosophy and revisiting theories of avant-garde from the point of view of early Soviet experience in politics and art in 1920s. Alexei Penzin is a member of the interdisciplinary group “Chto Delat / What is to be done?” (www.chtodelat.org) which works in space between theory, art, and political activism.
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Alexei Penzin
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theoritician, Moscow
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