{"id":1019,"date":"2012-12-13T09:39:43","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T09:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simoningsmirror.wordpress.com\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2012-12-13T09:39:43","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T09:39:43","slug":"of-martians-and-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=1019","title":{"rendered":"Of Martians and machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/simoningsmirror.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/10\/1908-the-island-work-in-progress\/1908-the-island-work-in-progress-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-218\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-218\" alt=\"1908: The Island (work in progress)\" src=\"http:\/\/simoningsmirror.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/439-scaled10001.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"407\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thought arises, not from matter, but from the way it is organised. Alexander Bogdanov, science fiction pioneer, philosopher, physician, Lenin\u2019s friend and rival, explored the idea of automating society. The West calls this cybernetics and it fuels consumer culture. But in the Soviet Union, Bogdanov\u2019s philosophy was discredited and suppressed. On <strong>Tuesday 18 December at 7.30pm<\/strong> I\u2019ll be asking why the Soviets abandoned their early dreams of automating Man.<\/p>\n<p>The talk\u2019s at Pushkin House, 5A Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2TA, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pushkinhouse.org\/en\/events\/alexander-bogdanov-lenins-friend-and-rival\"> you can find more details here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought arises, not from matter, but from the way it is organised. Alexander Bogdanov, science fiction pioneer, philosopher, physician, Lenin\u2019s friend and rival, explored the idea of automating society. The West calls this cybernetics and it fuels consumer culture. But &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=1019\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[122,142,143,55,222,248,257,86,271,285],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-alexander-bogdanov","tag-blood-transfusion","tag-bolsheviks","tag-lenin","tag-mars","tag-pushkin-house","tag-russian-philosophy","tag-science-fiction","tag-soviet-sf","tag-tektology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}