THE NEW SOCIAL POETRY

Dina Gatina. Fimbulwinter

 

THE MEANINGS OF ACADEMIC PROFESSIONALISM

Peter Safronov. From the Editor

Roman Abramov, Ivan Gruzdev, Evgenii Terentev. Alarm and Enthusiasm in Discourses on the Academic World: International and Russian Contexts

Peter Safronov. Balaam’s Ass: Academic Workers between Professionalism and Deprofessionalization

Maxim Demin. Universities on the Market: Academic Capitalism as Challenge and Window of Opportunity

 

THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF THE HUMANITIES: THE VIEWS OF HANS ULRICH GUMBRECHT

Nikolay Poselyagin. From the Editor (regarding the ‘Present and Future of the Humanities’ and the ‘Book as Event’ sections)

Yevgen Galona, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. “Ivory Tower”: On the Future of Humanities Education (trans. Yevgen Galona)

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. Philology and the Complex Present (trans. Nikolay Poselyagin)

 

BOOK AS EVENT

V. Podoroga. Anthropograms: An Experiment in Self-Criticism. M.: Logos, 2014

Tatiana Venediktova. Anthropograms: Varieties of Readings (from the editor)

Oleg Aronson

(Valery Podoroga answers Oleg Aronson)

Boris Dubin. The Mimesis Project

(Valery Podoroga answers Boris Dubin)

Sergei Zenkin

Elena Petrovskaya

(Valery Podoroga answers Elena Petrovskaya)

Oxana Timofeeva. An Anthropology of Fantastic Beings (On V. Podoroga’sAnthropograms)

Keti Chukhrov. On Valery Podoroga’s Mimesis Project

(Valery Podoroga answers Keti Chukhrov)

 

THE PRAGMATICS OF AESTHETIC DISCOURSE

Pavel Arsenev, Dmitry Bresler. What Speaking Wants to Say: the Pragmatics of Aesthetic Discourse

Pavel Arsenev. On the Construction of Pragmatic Poetics

Igor Kravchuk. “...The Truth Had Been Twisted and Contorted...”: Toward a Pragmatics of the Novella The Landlady by F.M. Dostoevsky

Dmitry Bresler. ‘Was Tearfully Pleading with Svistonov to Tear Up His Manuscript’: The Pragmatics of the Genetic Dossier in Vaginov’s Novels

Evgeny Koshin. The Naive Reader in an Imaginary World

Georgy Scherstnev. Denouncing the Device: Toward a Pragmatics of the Anti-Religious Sound Film

Pavel Arsenev. Literature of the Fact of Utterance: On an Unnoticed Pragmatic Turn

 

MIKHAIL BULGAKOV: THE ELUSIVE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE SACRED

Ilona Kiss. The Geopoetics of Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita: A Map of Russian History and Invisible Moscow

Maria Mikhaylova, Sergey Bobrov. Did Mikhail Bulgakov read Evdokia Nagrodskaya?

 

META-ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE FATE OF THE HUMANITIES

Alexander Skidan. From the Editor

Mikhail Epstein. On Humanistic Invention

Dmitri Golynko-Vol’fson. Humanistic Knowledge as (Not Very) Useful Minerals

Mikhail Kurtov. On Technical Not-Knowing

 

NON-CONFORMISM REVISITED

Grigorii Benevich. Viktor Shirali in the Context of 1960s-70s Petersburg Poetry

 

CHRONICLE OF CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE

Kirill Korchagin. Scattered Space, Opened Time (review of: N. Azarova. Untying Up. M., 2014)

Alexander Ulanov. Non-Coincidence of Readings (review of. A. Kruchkovsky. Sum of Non-coincidences. SPb., 2015)

Alexander Markov. Salto Order (review of: E. Nikitin. Stand-up Lyric. M., 2015)

Denis Larionov. The Splintering of Love (review of: S. Snytko. Kings of Acetone. M., 2014)

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

STATUS STRUGGLE

Anatoly Korchinsky. The Gleam and Poverty of Culturalism. (Review of: P. Berk. What is Cultural History? M., 2015)

Stanislav Gavrilenko. The Social World as a Historical Order of Contingency (Review of: R. Lakhman. What is Historical Sociology? M., 2016)

 

HUMANITIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE - 2

Evgeny Kozhemiakin. Discourse Analysis in the Digital Age: Broadening Opportunities (Review of: Discourse and Digital Practices: Doing Discourse Analysis in the Digital Era. L.; N.Y., 2015)

Gasan Guseinov. Rhetoric and New Techniques for Presenting Knowledge. (Review of: Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities. Chicago; L., 2015)

E.E. Nosenko-Shtein. Blindness in Literature and in Life. (Review of: D. Bolt. The Metanarrative of Blindness: A Re-reading of Twentieth-century Anglophone Writing. University of Michigan Press, 2014)

S.K. Lashchenko. Opera — the Great and the Terrible (Review of: A. Fishzon. Fandom, Authenticity, and Opera: Mad Acts and Letter Scenes in fin-de-siècle Russia. Basingstoke, 2013)

Maria Krivosheina. Modernité holmsianesque (Review of: K. Kobrin. Sherlock Holmes and the Birth of Modernity: Money, Girls and in Dandies the Victorian Era. SPb, 2015)

 

IN THE MARGINS

N.A. Bogomolov. 1930s-40s Soviet Epigrams

 

NEW BOOKS

 

NEW JOURNALS

 

CHRONICLE OF SCHOLARLY LIFE

Olga Annanurova, Varvara Sklez. “Epistemology of the Viewer” roundtable (RSHU, 16 September 2015)

Denis Larionov, Nikita Sungatov. “Poetic and Philosophical Discourses: History of Interaction and Status Today” (RAS Institute of Linguistics/Institute of Philosophy, 7-9 October 2015)

Artem Kravchenko. “Strategies of Institution-building in post-Stalin USSR (1953-1968)” (RANEPA School of Humanities Research, 25-27 June 2015)

Alexandar Sorochan. “All the World’s Raptures: Ecstasy in Literature and Art,” second international interdisciplinary April conference (Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House), 27-28 April 2015)

Natalia Novikova. “Faces of 20th Century: Literature and Ideology” IV International conference in honor of L.G. Andreev (MSU, 18-20 July 2015)

 

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