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Videos by Alexei Yurchak Алексей Юрчак

#Museum of Care Reading Group, London, May 13, 2021

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Keynote lecture, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, June 2016, third annual conference "The Cu... more Keynote lecture, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, June 2016, third annual conference "The Culture of the Russian Revolution and Its Global Impact."

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Books by Alexei Yurchak Алексей Юрчак

НЛО, 2014

Премия Просветитель

Princeton University Press, 2006

Wayne Vucinic Book Prize 2007, "for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and Eas... more Wayne Vucinic Book Prize 2007, "for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences."

Endorsement by Slavoj Zizek:

"Alexei Yurchak's Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More immediately seduced me by its very title with a profound philosophical implication that eternity is a historical category--things can be eternal for some time. The same spirit of paradox runs through the entire book--it renders in wonderful details the gradual disintegration of the Soviet system from within its ideological and cultural space, making visible all the hypocrisy and misery of this process. I consider Yurchak's book by far the best work about the late epoch of the Soviet Union--it is not just history, but a pleasure to read, a true work of art." (Slavoj Zizek, author of In Defense of Lost Causes)

Abstract:

Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full of promise. Although these characteristics may appear mutually exclusive, in fact they were mutually constitutive. This book explores the paradoxes of Soviet life during the period of "late socialism" (1960s-1980s) through the eyes of the last Soviet generation.

Papers by Alexei Yurchak Алексей Юрчак

Вступление (Что такое антропология) к книге "Коммуналка на Петроградке" (Романа Осминкина и Анастасии Вепревой) НЛО, 2022

Collaborative Analytics Today: a collection of exceptions, 2021

Alexei Yurchak and Dominic Boyer

Третьяковская галлерея, 2020

В каталоге "Это было навсегда" (для выставки "Ненавсегда: 1968-1985" в Третьяковке, 10 апреля – 1... more В каталоге "Это было навсегда" (для выставки "Ненавсегда: 1968-1985" в Третьяковке, 10 апреля – 16 августа 2020)

journal "Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History", v. 20, n. 4, 2019

"Representations", N. 129, Winter 2015. The essay analyzes the project of maintaining the body... more "Representations", N. 129, Winter 2015.

The essay analyzes the project of maintaining the body of V. I. Lenin in the Mausoleum in Moscow for the past ninety years, focusing on the unique biological science that developed around this project, and the unexpected political role this body has performed.

In this meditation, Anya Bernstein and Alexei Yurchak discuss Yurchak's essay, " The canon and th... more In this meditation, Anya Bernstein and Alexei Yurchak discuss Yurchak's essay, " The canon and the mushroom: Lenin, sacredness, and Soviet collapse, " which is published in the current issue. They elaborate on some points in the essay that are central for the understanding of the figure of " Lenin " and its role in Soviet history, take them in new directions, and link them to other topics that are relevant to anthropology. The themes discussed include sacredness and blasphemy; death, resurrection, and immortality; language, intentionality, and responsibility; voice, ventriloquism, and truth; and more.

in "The Scaffolding of Sovereignty: Global and Historical Perspectives on a History of a Concept.... more in "The Scaffolding of Sovereignty: Global and Historical Perspectives on a History of a Concept." Zvi Ben-Dor Benite,‎ Stefanos Geroulanos,‎ Nicole Jerr, eds. Columbia University Press, 2017: 246-274.

Предисловие к книге Эдуарда Кона "Как мыслят леса: к антропологии по ту сторону человека" 2018 (i... more Предисловие к книге Эдуарда Кона "Как мыслят леса: к антропологии по ту сторону человека" 2018 (in original: "How forests think: toward an anthropology beyond the human," 2013)

"FAKE," keywords in Anthro, HAU Books, ed. by Jacob Copeman and Giovanni da Col , 2018

Syllabus, graduate seminar, Anthropology, UC Berkeley, Fall 2016

Cultural Anthropology, v. 25, n. 2, May 2010

#Museum of Care Reading Group, London, May 13, 2021

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32 views

НЛО, 2014

Премия Просветитель

Princeton University Press, 2006

Endorsement by Slavoj Zizek:

Abstract:

Collaborative Analytics Today: a collection of exceptions, 2021

Alexei Yurchak and Dominic Boyer

Третьяковская галлерея, 2020

journal "Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History", v. 20, n. 4, 2019

"Representations", N. 129, Winter 2015. The essay analyzes the project of maintaining the body... more "Representations", N. 129, Winter 2015.

"FAKE," keywords in Anthro, HAU Books, ed. by Jacob Copeman and Giovanni da Col , 2018

Syllabus, graduate seminar, Anthropology, UC Berkeley, Fall 2016

Cultural Anthropology, v. 25, n. 2, May 2010

Поздне-советская субъектность

El análisis político, una vez comentó Susan Buck-Morss, debe proceder de dos maneras distintas: d... more El análisis político, una vez comentó Susan Buck-Morss, debe proceder de dos maneras distintas: debe evaluar críticamente la economía política global y, al mismo tiempo, someter a escrutinio constante los términos en los que se realiza esta crítica. En los medios de comunicación y el debate público de los Estados Unidos, el discurso liberal ha ocupado una posición dominante. Sometiendo al escrutinio los términos en los que este discurso ha conducido el análisis político, deja en claro que estos términos contribuyen tanto a Trump, los monstruos y los límites del Liberalismo.

Дekoder - DEKODER - Journalismus aus Russland in deutscher Übersetzung, 2016

 Konturen der früheren Sowjetunion werden in der Forschung vielfach entlang der Bruchlinie von R... more  Konturen der früheren Sowjetunion werden in der Forschung vielfach entlang der Bruchlinie von Repression und Widerstand aufgezeigt. Der Kulturanthropologe Alexei Yurchak hat in seinen Untersuchungen den Fokus verschoben. Er hat die offziellen Strukturen und Rituale des früheren Sowjetstaates in den Blick genommen – und das, was die Menschen in ihren Alltagspraktiken daraus gemacht haben. Sein Buch Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More (dt. Alles war für immer, bevor es verschwand) über die sowjetische Generation unter Breshnew ist inzwischen auf Russisch erschienen und Yurchak für seine Studie im vergangenen Jahr mit dem renommierten Buchpreis Proswetitel (dt. Aufklärer) in Russland geehrt worden. Das junge Medienprojekt Gorky traf ihn nun für ein Interview, sprach über Vererbtes ins Heute, Vergleiche mit den USA und verschobene Wahrnehmungen der Gesellschaft.

What is sovereignty? Often taken for granted or seen as the ideology of European states vying for... more What is sovereignty? Often taken for granted or seen as the ideology of European states vying for supremacy and conquest, the concept of sovereignty remains underexamined both in the history of its practices and in its aesthetic and intellectual underpinnings. Using global intellectual history as a bridge between approaches, periods, and areas, The Scaffolding of Sovereignty deploys a comparative and theoretically rich conception of sovereignty to reconsider the different schemes on which it has been based or renewed, the public stages on which it is erected or destroyed, and the images and ideas on which it rests.

The essays in The Scaffolding of Sovereignty reveal that sovereignty has always been supported, complemented, and enforced by a complex aesthetic and intellectual scaffolding. This collection takes a multidisciplinary approach to investigating the concept on a global scale, ranging from an account of a Manchu emperor building a mosque to a discussion of the continuing power of Lenin's corpse, from an analysis of the death of kings in classical Greek tragedy to an exploration of the imagery of "the people" in the Age of Revolutions. Across seventeen chapters that closely study specific historical regimes and conflicts, the book's contributors examine intersections of authority, power, theatricality, science and medicine, jurisdiction, rulership, human rights, scholarship, religious and popular ideas, and international legal thought that support or undermine different instances of sovereign power and its representations.

Comment préserver le corps d'un défunt pendant près de 100 ans? Celui de Lénine trône sur la Plac... more Comment préserver le corps d'un défunt pendant près de 100 ans? Celui de Lénine trône sur la Place rouge depuis les années 1920. Isabelle Cornaz, notre correspondante à Moscou, lui a rendu visite et révèle tous les secrets de son embaumement. Avec Alexeï Yurchak, chercheur en anthropologie sociale à l’Université de Berkeley.

https://www.rts.ch/play/radio/cqfd/audio/les-secrets-du-corps-de-lenine?id=8534268

Для советских людей обвал советской системы стал одновременно абсолютной неожиданностью и чем-то ... more Для советских людей обвал советской системы стал одновременно абсолютной неожиданностью и чем-то вполне закономерным. Это драматическое событие обнажило необычный парадокс: несмотря на то, что большинство людей воспринимало советскую систему как вечную и неизменную, они в принципе были всегда готовы к ее распаду. В книге профессора Калифорнийского университета в Беркли Алексея Юрчака система «позднего социализма» (середина 1950-х – середина 1980-х) анализируется в перспективе этого парадокса. Образ позднего социализма, возникающий в книге, в корне отличается от привычных стереотипов, согласно которым советскую реальность якобы можно свести к описанию, основанному на простых противопоставлениях -- таких как: официальная/неофициальная культура, тоталитарный язык/свободный язык, политическое подавление/гражданское сопротивление, публичная ложь/скрытая правда и т.д.