Comradely Exchanges: Aleksandr Bogdanov's Physiological Collectivism and Community Reimagined

This article examines Soviet theorist Aleksandr Bogdanov's physiological collectivism, which builds around the idea of mutual blood exchange as a method of eroding borders between individuals to increase the resilience of the social organism as a whole;and reconceptualizes community as a network of material connections between the cells of said organism. The COVID-19 pandemic increased interest in convalescent plasma (CP). This article examines the physiological collective together with theorists like Jane Bennett and Donna Haraway as a basis for how convalescent plasma can function as a first step towards establishing material community today. © 2022 Elsevier B.V.