Veranstaltung: Research Kolloqium | Socialist Law of Energy Exchange: Fossil Base and Cultural Superstructure

From a geophilosophical and geopoetic perspective, the Marxist political economy of the base and superstructure can be represented as the relationship between the subsoil containing minerals and the social relations creating various techniques for extracting and processing these minerals. The "base"/subsoil and the "superstructure"/socialist industrialisation (the plans of the first five-year plans) considered in this perspective act as links in a single dialectical chain of transformations. The meaning of this chain is that the productive forces of nature, having been included in socialist production relations, were to change not only the nature of the relationship between man and nature, but also the nature of social relations themselves. The focus of my presentation will be the reconstruction of the relations between natural and social objects, geology and sociology, subsoil and technology, the structure of the earth and the structure of society, geological and historical temporalities. The material for this reconstruction will be literary works, journalism, cinematography, and works on economics and geology from the 1920s and 1930s.