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The interview with a famous theorist of architecture, researcher of postmodernism Charles Jencks is a part of the book "Architectural Theories in Monologues" by Prof. G. Stanishev. In the conversation conducted in a free tone, Charles Jencks shares his thoughts on the matter of postmodernism and its relations with the previous stages of development of architectural thought.
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The essay considers approaches to understanding the current situation of the former socialist countries, proposed by the decolonial researcher Madina Tlostanova in her 2017 work «Postcolonialism and Postsocialism in Fiction and Art». The eight chapters of Tlostanova's book analyze specific temporal and spatial relationships that define both the postsocialist cultural and political context. Tlostanova notes the impossibility of applying the terminology that has been integrated into Western scientific discourse since the Cold War to the postsocialist space. Such an approach automatically places the postsocialist countries in the post-bipolar hierarchy of the world built by the West. The article's author compared the basis of Tlostanova's research with the approaches of other colonialism and imperialism researchers, such as John McKenzie, Touraj Atabaki, Saurabh Dube, and Ramon Grosfoguel. In my opinion, they can expand the theoretical model formulated by Tlostanava. Tlostanova criticizes postcolonial optics as a paradigm leaving the countries of the former «Socialist Camp» behind a new, but already epistemological «Iron Curtain» and continuing to reproduce colonial narratives. In the book, Tlostanova considers postsocialism as a special state, marked by the intersection of multiple post-dependencies-Russian, post-soviet, post-dictatorship, as well as global coloniality. A symptom of global coloniality is, in particular, the phenomenon of self-colonization. This phenomenon manifests itself in self-exoticization through the transformation of folk culture into a commodity, unhealthy nostalgia for the past, historical memory distortion, and instrumentalization of images of the past. Tlostanova explains this recursiveness of the postsocialist space through the concept of tempo-localities, which are most clearly traced in art. Thus, decolonial artistic practices in a post-dependent society forms a sensual basis for art and knowledge decolonization in general.
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В настоящей статье рассматривается проблема классификации наук в контексте современной постнеклассической интеллектуальной культуры. Целью статьи является краткий философский анализ подходов к классификации наук и характеристика их применения для решения прикладных задач систематизации современной науки. В первой части статьи на материале классических систем научного знания, предложенных Аристотелем, Ф. Бэконом, Г.В. Лейбницем, рассматриваются фундаментальные принципы категоризации наук, предполагающие отражение онтологической структуры окружающего мира. Поскольку постнеклассическая наука является динамичной системой, то для решения современных прикладных задач систематизации науки предлагается сочетание аналитического (априорного, теоретического) и синтетического (апостериорного, эмпирического) подходов. Во второй части статьи рассматриваются некоторые недостатки и практические рекомендации для составления научных классификаций. Основной упор делается на необходимости отражения междисциплинарных исследований. В заключение сформулированы выводы о том, что в контексте постнеклассической рациональности универсальная классификация наук невозможна, однако существует необходимость в философском поиске техник для реализации прикладных задач классификации современных наук.
Postcapitalism and the Birth of the Personaliat
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Recently, the idea of a post-capitalist society has become increasingly relevant. The systemic crisis of capitalism and many of the contradictions revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic contribute to the intensification of the search for post-capitalist development. Researchers are increasingly proposing an alternative future in which robots and artificial intelligence bestow an abundance of material wealth, everyone is provided with everything they need, and people themselves are predominantly engaged in free creative activity. All of these utopian pictures are largely inspired by classical Marxist views of communism as the most likely non-antagonistic form of post-capitalist society. This book attempts to look at the post-capitalist perspective from a radically different angle. Many facts and trends indicate that we are moving towards a new antagonistic social formation. Instead of relative social harmony, the dominance of a new class, the personaliat, is established.
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