#infra-materialism

[estherax]

Generating plasm and stacking matchboxes: how to build a better future through collective consciousness.

Alternatively - Steban and Ulixes were building Tatlin's Tower so I have to talk about the symbolism or I will explode!!

While completing the communist vision quest you get an opportunity to build a model of "The Tower of History", depicted on the last page of "A Brief Look at Infra-Materialism": a leaning tower wrapped in a dramatic helix. The scale model you make is a mirror image of Tatlin's Tower - a design for a grand monumental building to the Third International: the government organization advocating for world communism.

The main idea of the monument was to produce a new type of structure, uniting a purely creative form with a utilitarian form. Meaning it would function as an office building while also serving as a symbol of cultural significance. And let me tell you, this bad boy can fit so much symbolism in it.

Tatlin was commissioned to develop a design in 1919, after the 1917 February Revolution - a parallel to Disco Elysium's Insulinde we're witnessing post-Antecentennial Revolution.

Tatlin's work was inspired by high revolutionary goals, which are evident in the visual direction of the tower as well, expressing the ideological strive for achieving something that has never been done before, overcoming the odds. The structure "oscillates like a steel snake, constrained and organized by the one general movement of all the parts, to raise itself above the earth. The form wants to overcome the material and the force of gravity..."

The tower has meaning packed even in the materials. For example, the glass structures (marked A, B, C on the architectural rendering) were meant to serve legislative, executive and informative initiatives while rotating around their axes at different speeds. The material signified the purity of initiatives, their liberation from material constraints and their ideal qualities.

But here's the best part. The spirals.

"The spiral is the movement of liberated humanity. The spiral is the ideal expression of liberation: with its base set in the earth, it flees from the ground and becomes a symbol of the suspension of all (...) earthy interests." They are "the most elastic and rapid lines which the world knows" that represent movement and aspiration, continuing the themes of progress and freedom, but they also refer to something else.

In the process of building the matchbox model Rhetoric points out: "It's almost exactly as Nilsen's sketch imagined, a physical manifestation of the dialectical spiral of history."

The shape of the tower is a representation of dialectical development of history, first visualized as a spiral by G. W. F. Hegel. He pictured transformational change as "both linear and circular in order to be short-term responsive, i.e. possibly negating itself, and long-term strategic, i.e. a process of development."

Hegel's dialectics would later be reinterpreted through the prism of materialism by Marx and Engels to create dialectical materialism - the basis for historical materialism.

"Still, this idea, as formulated by Marx and Engels on the basis of Hegels’ philosophy, is far more comprehensive and far richer in content than the current idea of evolution is. A development that repeats, as it were, stages that have already been passed, but repeats them in a different way, on a higher basis, (...) a development, so to speak, that proceeds in spirals, not in a straight line; a development by leaps, catastrophes, and revolutions; (...) the interdependence and the closest and indissoluble connection between all aspects of any phenomenon (history constantly revealing ever new aspects), a connection that provides a uniform, and universal process of motion, one that follows definite laws - these are some of the features of dialectics as a doctrine of development that is richer than the conventional one."

The tower embodies progress in materialist understanding of history while also indicating the connection to ideological plasm, a manifestation of "the proletariat's embrace of historical materialism", necessary to create a better future.

According to Nilsen, the proletariat of a revolutionary state can generate enough plasm to create extra-physical architecture that "disregards the laws of 'bourgeois physics' and instead relies on the revolutionary faith of the people for structural integrity."

This function of plasm implies that The Tower of History can be created only under revolutionary circumstances - without a sufficient amount of plasm even the matchbox model didn't stay up. The exact same sentiment is expressed about Tatlin's Tower: "We maintain that only the full power of the multimillion strong proletarian consciousness could bring into the world the idea of this monument and its forms. The monument must be realized by the muscles of this power, because we have an ideal, living and classical expression the pure and creative form of the international union of the workers of the whole world."

Nilsen called it "the highest expression of Communist principles, a society whose literal foundation is the faith of its people."

Tatlin's Tower was a symbol of faith in the revolutionary future, the global triumph of Marxist socialism. A monument "made of iron, glass and revolution."

It was never built in real life, and neither was The Tower of History in the world of Elysium.

But you can try to see if there's enough plasm between the three of you. And the matchbox tower stays up for a long moment, quivering with an improbable energy. You believe it can say up - and it does.

So you have to believe; whether it's for collective action or generating ideological plasm. Then, together, maybe you'll be able to build as much as 0.0002% of communism.

#i tricked myself into reading leftist theory for disco elysium #never thought i would be reading Lenin to write about videogame worldbuilding #tower related quotes are from ''The monument to the Third International'' by Nikolai Punin #infra-materialism #disco elysium #de #de meta #disco elysium analysis #disco elysium spoilers #disco elysium meta

[yellow-yarrow]

inframateralism real? (NOT CLICKBAIT) (100% real) (serious theory)

#fdhgjkfdhgjkdhfdh #A Brief Look at Infra-Materialism - #It's also been postulated that plasm may account for the remarkably full and manly facial hair observed on many communist males.

[nzcronerd]

🏳️‍🌈 Steban? :)

thank you for the excuse to draw transfem steban 👀

#i think i started to like this hc after one of your posts sjsksk #the fourth level of infra-materialism is transitioning indeed... #disco elysium #steban the student communist

[youre-responsible-not-us]

Hear me out

Commie lesbians

COMMIE LESBIANS

#disco elysium #disco elysium art #steban the student communist #echo maker #ulixes #it's a wip I guess? #they've just had an idea how to reach the FOURTH level of infra-materialism #now all that's left to decide is who gets to sit on who's face first #just comrad things #you know #stebania and ulyssa? #goddamn we have so little content on them that I don't even know the name of the pairing (the original one) #stebuli? #I don't know why tf I've fallen so deeply into a pairing of absolutely MINOR characters #I need help #anyway still trying to figure out how drawing works

[vorakh]

actually i should stop talking about disco elysium in public because today i said “anyway the three meters tall cryptid stickbug is real and she’s communist i think i can show you a picture” and people looked at me with mild concern

#i am introducing disco elysium to my mother #my first attempt didn't go well she tuned me out when i started talking about infra-materialism #which is valid #i don't remember what's my personal tag on this blog (:

[gardengnosticator]

disco elysium is good because being a well-read communist in unvierse gives you psychic powers and being a dumb-shit fascist gets you a steam achievement informing everyone how much of an absolutely huge fascist piece of shit you are

#infra materialism gives you access to psychic blast

[revolutionarysuicide]

im in a&e rn and it's covered in union jacks 🤢🤢 also several of them are that even worse version of the flag where it's got a crown on it

#not helping my mood... #they should cover the waiting room in red flags representing the blood of martyred workers 💪💪💪 #the spectre of communism will cheer up the patients and cure their ailments infra-materialism style

[multsicorn]

finally unlocked the communism book club in disco elysium after missing it on my first playthrough cause i got it double-scheduled with my encounter with THE PIGS

and when they got to the bit about increasing turnip yields with greater revolutionary fervor

(look i know it's a reference to lysenkoism but)

revolutionary fervor? or resentful energy? how about both?? *face looking out from over fingers pointed at each other* *that turn into finger guns bc lol ofc they do*

#anyway i'm not going to account for when i'm here reading or when i'm here posting or when i'm not or like. why #my tumblr is for me! i am not for it! #and when i get enough into a thing to post about it i Will and when i am not i will leave it Alone #and that is well enough for now #disco elysium #and i am not currently in the untamed but i love the burial mounds i guess forever #honestly everything about the infra-materialism just makes me think #of that soviet joke #where the machine gun runs out of ammo #'comrade such-and-such: aren't you a communist' #'and the machine gun began to fire again' #if you do not get the joke sorry i can't explain it *hands*

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[estherax]

#i'd love to hear your thoughts #disco elysium #de #infra-materialism #kras mazov #ignus nilsen #ulixes #the echo maker #ulixes the echo maker #steban the student communist #de meta

[yellow-yarrow]

i had the thought that i could make some funny valentines day cards, the ones with the silly jokes that people post around this time, but with Nilsen and the other communist, that could be funny... but then i thought about impaling jokes and 8 hours and that's just too easy

#'I would do war crimes for you valentine' #'i don't need plasm to read your thoughts when i look into your eyes valentine' #'lets discover something extra-physical together' and so on #he infra on my materialism till i plasm or something

[mihotose]

come to a gradual realisation that ive been understanding inFramaterialism as inTramaterialism and by this point intramaterialism just makes conceptually more sense to me

#like i read it as infra ive just been understandingit to mean intra #like. plasm is generated intra material. whats not clicking #in the air like love. lungs as the symbol of love. plasm that drives back the pale. this is all intra to me #gemitus

[eiirishi]

been talking the ear off my friend about pale lore, and yes they have not played Disco Elysium and they have only experienced it through me

#blbl #its so fun couse they probably know more (specific) lore than an avrage player #had a whole infodump on infra-materialism #love you my dear heheh

[ceviofcrows]

Infra-Materialism

#art #myart #disco elysium fanart #disco elysium #harrier du bois #harry du bois #kim kitsuragi

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