Abstract:

"Digging the Revolution" argues that Russian writer Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit (Kotlovan, 1929-30), featuring the creation of a vast pit in the Soviet countryside, is not the dystopian satire of Soviet collectivization it has long been taken to represent. Rather, the central hole marks an epistemological fissure in which dystopian and utopian outcomes seem to occur simultaneously. As such, the book does not offer any one determinative statement about the future, but—in dialogue with Kant and Lyotard's related philosophical claims about the communitarian sense engendered by the "abysses" of history—leaves its characters and readers to make a predictive judgment.

摘要：

“挖掘革命”认为，俄罗斯作家安德烈·普拉托诺夫 (Andrei Platonov) 的《基坑》 ( Kotlovan，1929-30) 以在苏联农村创造一个巨大的坑为特色，并不是它长期以来被视为代表的对苏联集体化的反乌托邦讽刺。相反，中心洞标志着一个认识论的裂痕，其中反乌托邦和乌托邦的结果似乎同时发生。因此，这本书没有提供任何关于未来的决定性陈述，但是——在与康德和利奥塔关于历史“深渊”所产生的社群意识的相关哲学主张的对话中——让其人物和读者做出预测性判断.