CSS Mini Symposium Program
Online, 3 June
Symposium Agenda
Agenda
BST (GMT/UTC+1) 08.45 – 08.50 Welcome by Prof. Gerald Midgley and Dr. Amanda Gregory, Co-Directors of the Centre for Systems Studies 08.50 – 09.00 Introduction by Orsan Senalp
09.00 – 10.00 Session 1
Facilitated by Peter Dudley
Paul Mason – A Mere Three Hundred Years: Bogdanov as a Guide to Transitionomics
Mike C. Jackson – Alexander Bogdanov, Stafford Beer, and Reflections on a Possible Post-Capitalist Society
Q&A
10.00 – 11.30 Session 2
Facilitated by Fabian Tompsett
Maria Chehonadskih – Environmentalism and Marxism in Alexander Bogdanov’s Theory
Giulia Rispoli – Bogdanov’s Theory of Organization: Restoring the Metabolic Rift in the Technosphere
John Biggart – Bogdanov and the “End of History”
Q&A
11.30 – 13.00 Session 3
Facilitated by Orsan Senalp
Maja Soboleva – Bogdanov on Proletarian Culture and Proletarian Art
Noemi Ghetti – Between Russia and Italy, from Bogdanov to Gramsci, the Cultural Pathway Towards Revolution
Fabian Tompsett – Tektology in the Digital Age: from the Workers’ Encyclopedia, to Wikipedia: “the free encyclopedia anyone can edit”
Q&A
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch Break
14.00 – 15.00 Conversation on Philosophy of Science / Scientific Philosophy
Facilitated by Mike C. Jackson.
McKenzie Wark and Carlo Rovelli – Bogdanov, Lenin, and Scientific Philosophy
15.00 -16.30 Session 4
Facilitated by Giulia Rispoli
James White – Looking Backwards: Bogdanov’s Philosophical Precursors
Daniela Steila – Bogdanov’s Idea of Science: Marx, Mach and Beyond
Evgeni Pavlov – Bogdanov’s Tektology and Future (Socialist) Science
Q&A
16.30 – 18.00 Session 5
Facilitated by Gerald Midgley
Peter Dudley – Podbor, Autopoiesis and Ultrastability
Svetlana Shchepetova – Sustainable Development of Socio-Economic Systems in the Light of Bogdanov’s Tektology
Viatcheslav Maratcha – “Organisational Point of View” as the Methodological Principle of Bogdanov’s Tektology and Its Development in the Moscow Methodological Circle
Orsan Senalp – From the Unity of Science to the Unity of the Systems Paradigm: Foundational Importance and Contemporary Relevance of Alexander Bogdanov
Q & A
18.00 – 18.30 Open-floor debate: Prospects and future directions for research
18.30 Last remarks and closing of the day
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