70 research outputs found
Review of the Book “Peter I in Media Memory” by Denis S. Artamonov & Sophia V. Tikhonova
No full textThe subject of the review is a monographic study by S. V. Tikhonova and D. S. Artamonov “Peter I in Media Memory”. The monograph consists of three chapters and fourteen paragraphs. Co-authors analyze in the first chapter (“Peter I in the Media Memory of the Digital Age”) the influence of traditional (radio, cinema, television) and new (digital, interactive, social) media on the collective memory. The second chapter (“Peter the Great in the Visual images of Media Memory”) contains a study of historical anecdotes, cartoons, Internet memes, animated films, computer games. The third chapter (“Constructing the image of Peter I in the media environment”) is devoted to the politics of memory and memorial wars around Peter I in comparison with the figures of media memory closest to him – Ivan the Terrible and I. V. Stalin.
D. S. Artamonov and S. V. Tikhonova believe that in the 21st century, new media begins to play a major role in constructing the image of Peter the Great. The reviewed monograph is a truly innovative and searching study, which suggests methods and forms of analyzing the memory of Peter I in contemporary society that can be used in the study of other epochs, personalities, events of world and national history
Об экономических измерениях: вероятность и достоверность, математическое моделирование, большие данные, электронная статистика
No full textAfter the brief description of the role Suslov I.P. (in 2015 was celebrated the 100th anniversary of his birth) had in the development of national statistics in XX century, the article consistently describes the author’s approach to the problem of measuring economic statistics. The content of economic measurement is revealed; the author shows the modern relationship between the economic dimension and mathematical modeling; the author’s position in interpreting the problems of big data and e-statistics is expressed. With regard to the subject of the study the author emphasizes that accuracy, uncertainty, under coverage - are the fundamental features of economic dimensions that influence the probabilistic approach to the interpretation of statistical indicators. Using Big Data significantly changes the understanding of the role of empirical information for practical decision-making and testing of theoretical hypotheses in forming scientific concepts. Collection and processing of primary information on the status and dynamics of economic processes, statistical reporting of enterprises and organizations must be based on electronic bookkeeping of tax, customs and others documents, accompanying the movement of goods, services and capital
Corporeal Representations of Lenin in Post‑Soviet Ideological Games
No full textThis article discusses the significance of the study of Lenin's corporeality in the context of mass and elite culture of the post-Soviet space. The author highlights the importance of understanding the role of Lenin's images in the ideological and political context and suggests analyzing them using theoretical tools. The article also shows that interest in Lenin's images persists in contemporary mass and elite culture, being realized in such strategies of representation of Lenin's bodily aspects as phantasmagoric mystification, “skomoroshchestvo”, annihilation and dehumanization.
The phantasmagoric strategy of representing the leader of the world proletariat includes attempts to depict Lenin in unusual and paradoxical bodily images, often with elements of fantasy and mystification. The strategy of “skomoroshchestvo” allows researchers and artists to play with Lenin's image and reinterpret it in a comical and absurd way. The strategy of annihilation emphasizes the contrasting views and emotions associated with Lenin's image in the contemporary world and provokes discussions about the boundaries of art, symbolism and respect for historical figures. The strategy of dehumanizing Lenin in the representation of his corporeal image is expressed in transformations that take him away from his human historical context and reduce him to an object of irony, satire and symbolic associations
Fantastic Corporeality of the Political Process (on the Example of Cinematic Material)
No full textThe article is devoted to the analysis of mythological foundations of mass culture and their role in the formation of political discourse through the images of fantastic characters reflecting archetypal motifs and emotionally affecting the collective unconscious. Three universal approaches to the creation of fantastic characters in mass culture are described: chimerization, gorgonization and cyborgization. The interaction between political discourse and the fantasy segment of mass culture is examined through the prism of the digimodern aesthetics described by Alan Kirby. The author explores how figures of monsters, zombies, mutants and other fantastic creatures become allegories of social, cultural and political processes. Particular attention is paid to the possibility of the fantasy story to discuss such pressing social issues as minority rights, the crises of capitalism, multiculturalism, and the nature of future revolutions. It also analyzes the conceptual component of the phenomenon of “soft power” of cinema in the context of shaping public opinion both inside and outside Western countries. It is emphasized that the “ideological elasticity” of fiction formats creates a space for safe and politically correct discussion of complex topics. The article may be of interest to researchers studying the interaction between mass culture and political processes, as well as the processes of myth-making in cinematography
How ideologists define ideology: A. G. Dugin
No full textIntroduction. Ideology as a category of political philosophy in a digital society cannot be defined neutrally and autonomously from the activities of its defining subject. Theoretical analysis. Using the example of a specific system of views, the authors show the inevitability of the ideological character and the ideological bias of the concept of ideology. Considering A. G. Dugin’s textbook “Philosophy of Politics”, they try to identify the line beyond which philosophical research goes beyond the criteria of scientific academic objectivity and submits to the task of constructing its own worldview system, which includes the author’s political ideal. The doctrinal analysis of the work under consideration shows the elimination of the concept of ideology from its didactic units, although the traditional programs of this academic discipline contain it. The authors establish the dominance of a broad approach to understanding political philosophy in this work, which allowed its author to “dissolve” ideology in the content of the political and de facto identify ideology and politics. In this case, ideology loses its role as a methodological conceptual tool and transforms into an element of living thinking. An ideologist is identified as a person who directs his intellectual eff ort to maintain the probabilistic nature of politics as an area of maximum realization of human essence. Conclusion. The identification of ideology and politics is a way of distancing oneself from competing projects of the philosophy of politics, defining them as non-essential and therefore not corresponding to the meaning and purpose of politics
Mythologization of Time in the Contemporary Media Landscape
No full textThe peer-reviewed collective monograph explores the mythologization of time in modern media environments. Philosophers from Lipetsk (A.G. Ivanov, A.A. Linchenko, I.P. Polyakova) and Saratov (S.V. Tikhonova, D.S. Artamonov) consider theoretical and methodological aspects of the mythological understanding of time, analyze time frames in the media environment, use different philosophical approaches in the study of “strange time”. Attention is also paid to practical aspects of time management in everyday life, peculiarities of time mythologization in computer games, digital history, Internet memes and media projects. The specifics of time representation in British TV series and interactive cinema, as well as its manifestations in musical works, also come into the focus of scientific interest. In general, the monograph is a comprehensive study of the mythological dimension of time in the context of contemporary media environment.
The instant mythologization of time in media space implies a rejection of the modernist idea of a straightforward flow of time and a return to ancient ideas about the cyclical nature of time periods. A clear temporal sequence of past-present-future is denied and it is argued that events are not necessarily subject to temporal logic. These trends arise from the use of new digital and media technologies that allow ordinary people to experience archaic notions of time in everyday life
Origins of Japanese archaic poetry: Japanese long song (nagauta / chōka)
No full textThe presented article is devoted, on the one hand, to the general problem of the literary process in an archaic society on the example of the genesis of waka poetry; on the other hand, it directly refers to the archaism of the so-called long song (nagauta or chōka). The article raises the question of the transformation of that pre-aesthetic primitive song into archaic poetry. Describing the possible ways of genesis of the primitive song, the author, agreeing with the principle of accumulation of poetic lines, proposed by Bowra-Konishi, notes the need for a deeper comprehension of the Archaic period of Japanese (Yamato) literature. Stating the necessity to distinguish a primitive song from an archaic one, the author operates with the concept of a developed “aesthetic feeling” as a necessary criterion for the transformation of the primitive song, based on parallelism. Unlike primitive poetry, which performed merely the utilitarian function, archaic poetry started to meet not only ritual, but also aesthetic needs of an ancient human. In addition, the article examines the role of writing as a necessary condition for the death of primitive song and the formation of the canon. In addition, the text presents a critical characteristic of the main body of archaic poetry, including long songs, which are relatively few in number. Based on a sample analysis of the presented texts (poetic fragments from Kojiki, Nihonshoki, long songs from Man’yōshū and Naniwaza-uta from mokkan tablets), the author provides a classification-periodization of the genesis of the archaic form of nagauta/chōka (a narrative chronicle speech-stressing long song, a non-narrative non-epic long song, and a long song created by a specific author and having a developed system of imagery. Emphasizing the chronicles’ long song, its structural heterogeneity, the author builds a hypothesis of its genesis opposite to the accumulative principle of Bowra-Konishi, consisting in the principle of reductionism from the long epic form of a primitive song. The limit of this reduction is justified by the aesthetic “capacity” of the poetic form in the transitional period of the non-written method of versification. Keywords: nagauta (long song), archaic poetry, non-book culture, literary canon, reductionism, literary process
Citizenship Education Development: European Experience
No full textThe paper considers the European experience of the citizenship education developmentan important aspect of internal policy in the most countries. The education in question is considered to be the democratic citizenship training aimed at developing the loyal attitude to different value priorities in society, social responsibility, active citizenship position, awareness of democratic rights, capability of using and protecting them.The author looks at the transformation of citizenship education concept in the last three decades from the civics education (i.e. history, political science, law, etc.) to the democratic citizen education. The paper analyzes differ- ent approaches to citizenship education in several European countries including the post-soviet ones. It is emphasized that both in western and eastern Europe a lot of effort is made for spreading and supporting the education in question. The author recommends considering the foreign experience of integrating the democratic citizenship education into the state academic curricula at the primary, secondary and higher school levels
1855–1911
No full textAbstractThis article explores one of the oldest controversies over Slavophile thought: the question of whether it is a form of liberalism or conservatism. The author reassesses understudied neo-Slavophile ideologists through the prism of the debates on the public sphere. The paper focuses on the popular journalist S. F. Sharapov (1855-1911) and his utopias. Sharapov and the plethora of the Slavophile intellectuals, such as N. P. Aksakov, A. A. Kireev, D. A. Khomiakov, I. F. Romanov, A. G. Shcherbatov, and A. V. Vasil'ev, worked out a project of autocracy based upon local self-government. Their project featured such elements of liberalism as humanism, freedom of conscience and the press, and toleration of the non-Russian and non-Orthodox subjects of the Empire. One of the central themes of the neo-Slavophile project was criticism of the bureaucratic imperial regime and offering proposals of comprehensive reforms. At the same time, neo-Slavophilism embraced anti-Semitism and a deep-rooted aversion to the West and Western political practices. The distinctiveness of the neo-Slavophiles consisted of the Messianic belief in Russia's uniqueness and ability to develop a 'truly liberal' political regime, in which rigorously observed Christian morality would be present alongside civil rights and freedoms. The paper argues that Slavophilism is not a repository of ready-made illiberal ideas, but a practice of social criticism, which comes up when attempts at political modernization in Russia are half-hearted or have failed.
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