BELLES-LETTRES

Alain Fleischer. La Femme couchée par écrit (trans. V. Lapitsky)

MASS HYSTERIA AS SOCIAL INSTITUTION

Nikolay Poselyagin. From the editor

I. THE RATIONALIZATION OF MASS PSYCHOSIS

Oleg Aronson. Epidemiology of the Political

Sergey Zenkin. Malign Mimesis

Alek D. Epstein. Redefining Religious Discourse: What do we mean by “atheism,” “free thought” and “secular age”

II. PRACTICES OF MASS PSYCHOSIS

Monica Black. What Was Mass Hysteria? A Faith Healer and Popular Apocalypticism in Postwar Germany (trans. T. Pirusskaya)

Konstantin A. Bogdanov. Chumak’s Jars, Kashpirovsky’s Gaze: On the Role of Immobile Objects in the Social Imagination

BECAUSE IT’S NOT ALLOWED: PORN AS STIGMATIZED FUNCTION

Compiled by Jan Levchenko

Jan Levchenko. Introduction

Jan Levchenko. Industry of Shame: The Development and Commodification of Sex in Late Soviet Film

Denis Saltykov. The Cinematic Mythology of Snuff and its Pragmatics

Elizaveta Klochkova. Torture porn: The Decline of Authority and the Groundlessness of Power

INTERPRETATIONS

K. A. Barsht. Blacksmith-Bear from A. Platonov’s The Foundation Pit and I.I. Ivanov’s Experiments in Creating a Human-Ape Hybrid

THE CROSSROADS OF LE PARADOXE

Compiled by Maria Nekliudova

Maria Nekliudova. From the Editor

Maria Nekliudova. The Debate over the Sensitive Comedian, or Four Sources for Le Paradoxe

Tatiana Smoliarova. Le Paradoxe 1922/23. Text in Context

Olga Kuptsova. Reason, Feeling and Reflections (Diderot, Ostrovsky and others)

Olga Roginskaya. “Notebook on the knee and pencil in hand”: The Actor as Observer in Diderot (“Paradoxe sur le comedien”)

ON IMITATING AN IMITATION

Sergey Zenkin. The Dissemination of Mimesis: Diderot and Chenier

BOOK AS EVENT

A. I l i a n e n. Pensia. Tver: Kolonna Publications, Mitin Zhurnal, 2015, 666 pp.

Aleksey Porvin. A Microblog of Self-Descriptive Youth

Aleksey Konakov. The Wall-of-Words Effect

Stanislav Snytko. Political Economy of the Fragment

Ivan A. Sokolov. Saint A.I.: Comedian and Martyr

Aleksandr Ilianen. Les herbes folles

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Aleksey Vasilev. Memory in Search of Monuments (Review of: Rites of Place: Public Commemoration in Russia and Eastern Europe. Evanston (IL), 2013; Etkind A. Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied. Stanford, 2013)

Konstantin Erusalimsky. Jack Goody’s “anthropological archaeology” (Review of: (Russian translation of) J. Goody. The Theft of History. M., 2015)

Oxana Gavrishina. Photography: An investigative landscape of the final third of the twentieth century (Review of: A. Roue. Photography: Between the Document and Modern Art)

Ulrich Froeschle. Physicists and “lyricists” in the Third Reich (Review of:Ball P. Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler. Chicago; L., 2014; Petropoulos J. Artists under Hitler: Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany. New Haven; L., 2014) (trans. S. Tashkentov)

Mikhail Odessky. Science as cultural institution and Bolsheviks (Review of: Krementsov N. Revolutionary Experiments: The Quest for Immortality in Bolshevik Science and Fiction. N.Y., 2014)

A. Nesterov. “The coverings that hide unfailing and permanent knowledge…” or, On emblems and their interpretations (Review of: A.E. Makhov. Emblematics: The Macrocosm. M., 2014)

Vera Milchina. The birth of celebrities from the spirit of the eighteenth century (Review of: Lilti A. Figures publiques: L’invention de la célébrité (1750–1850). P., 2014)

Elizaveta Berezina. Fin-de-siècle Russian postcards: from card-collectors’ descriptions to historical interpretation (Review of: Rowley Ä. Open Letters: Russian Popular Culture and the Picture Postcard, 1880–1922. Toronto, 2013)

HACK-WORK

Vladislav Karelin. The psychoanalytic carousel: from the avant-garde to PR (Review of: D.L. Shukurov. The Russian Literary Avant-garde and Psychoanalysis in the Context of Silver-Age Intellectual Culture. M., 2014)

New books

CHRONICLE OF SCHOLARLY LIFE

Kirill Korchagin. XXIII Big Bannye Readings: “The Anthropology of Mass Psychosis in Modern Societies” (“Memorial,” 3—4 April 2015)

Varvara Sklez. XXII International Symposium “Russia’s Paths. War and Peace”: “Europe 1939: The Beginning of a New Historical Cycle?” (Moscow Higher School of Social Sciences and Economics, 28 March 2015)

Vera Milchina. A Debate Between Discourses or Crocodile Wrestling? “The Legacy of the Soviet School of Translation” (MSU Philological Faculty, 20—21 March 2015)

Vera Milchina .The VIIth Readings in Memory of Efim Etkind (Institute of Russian Literature RAS, 29—30 June 2015)