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Between Cyborg and Larva: A Vicious Circle That Human Beings Experience in the Post-humanist Era
8 p.Views:337The article reveals the reasons for and specific features of the transition to the posthumanist
era. The author of the study reviews the criticism of classical humanism and analyzes
the relationship between the concepts of "trans-humanism" and "post-humanism." In a
situation in which a permanent identity is impossible and people move to a “current” “unstable”
identity, the Imaginary becomes the main guideline for the self-identification process.
Human beings are unable to cope with the challenges of our time and are aware of their own
inferiority. That is why they are trying to improve themselves through the available body
modifications. However, this process gives them a new panic attack over the potential loss
of control over the body. Analyzing these processes, the author turns to the most controversial
and specific phenomenon of popular culture – "body horror". This genre reveals the deep
layers of consciousness, fears and insecurity of human beings in the post-humanist era. -
Women's Prose: Past, Present and Future
Views:332The very expression "women's prose" in Russian literary discourse is debatable, since even many female writers refuse to identify themselves as such. A woman writer has all the rights of a writer, but she also has the additional right to self-identify as a representative of "women's prose". Women's prose requires a double research point of view: looking at it as an integral part of fiction and identifying the specific features of works created by women writers. During the period of perestroika (the second half of the 1980s), women's activity in Russian prose became more active, and L. Petrushevskaya and T. Tolstaya came to the forefront of literary life. An important milestone in the awareness of the specifics of women's prose was the series "Women's Handwriting" by the publishing house "Vagrius". A characteristic trend in the development of modern Russian women's prose is the democratization of the artistic thinking and language, the attraction of high prose tothe mainstream, to mass nature and the feeling of accessibility. In this regard, the article examines the prose of V. Tokareva, O. Slavnikova, D. Rubina, M. Stepnova, N. Abgaryan, G. Yakhina and others.
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Theoretical Foundations of the Study of Cultural Industries in the Light of Modern Humanitarianism
Views:248The paper defines new perspectives of the study of cultural industries by the humanities. Cultural, philosophical and socioeconomic theories of the last century, which have entered our active academic life, are considered as the basic points of departure. The author considers the problem of humans and those cultural changes which contribute to the harmonization of ontological, axiological and aesthetic bases of their existence in modern society.
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Aglaya Returns Home, The Mystery of The Apocryph of Aglaia. Ed. by Elena Kozmina. INTMEDIA, Yekaterinburg 2020, 231 pp. ISBN 978-5-6040560-8-0
Views:231This collection of studies is a unique example of a collective monograph written by Russian, Polish and Hungarian scholars on a contemporary Polish literary work. The novel by Jerzy Sosnowski entitled Aglaia’s Apocrypha is an ideal subject of analysis because of its complicated narrative structure, multilevel composition and genre complexity. The authors of the studies describe the connections between the storytellers and the author, define the context of the novel both in high and popularculture. Some of them represent the best traditions of Russian poetics of prose. Jerzy Sosnowski began his career as a literary critic and literary historian, he was an influential interpreter and promoter of the new tendencies in the Polish literature of the eighties.When he became a prosewriter, he followed the new aesthetic trend of Polish postmodernism. Jerzy Sosnowski as the author of a novel written about an erotic cyborg, its/her admirer and the operator was a forerunner of posthumanism.
