Re:centering Periphery|Ogino Knauss

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Constructivism is one of the most exciting, important, productive, inventive avant-garde movements of the first half of the 20th century. It developed in many cities of the Soviet Union and not only in Moscow. Developments took place in Leningrad, in Ukraina, even in the Caucasus, and were connected to a series of contemporary movements. The [...]

notes from Victor Buchli An Archaeology of Socialism (Berg, 2000)
Byt encompasses all the following English terms “daily life” “domesticity” “lifestyle” “style of life”.
With the revolution and the problem of constructing a new socialist society, the word byt assumed an increasingly political signifiance. (…) With the end of the civil war, the following period of capitalist [...]