scholarly journals Alexander Burganov: a New Code of Time and Space

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Burganova ◽  
Julia Smolenkova
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Graphic Artist ◽  
New Material ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Metal Meshes

Summary: The article is devoted to the analysis of the work of Alexander Burganov, an outstanding contemporary sculptor and graphic artist. The study of the categories of Space and Time on the example of his works is the main theme of the article. The author believes that Time and Space in Burganov’s work are unique categories and correspond to reality least of all; the author gives examples of specific works and convinces that Burganov has modeled a bright, recognizable, unique personal code with the help of sculptures, graphic works, texts, installations, and artistic gestures. Today, this is especially noticeable as the culture of the 21st century has sharpened and almost brought to a logical conclusion the awareness of artistic being, formed in the second half of the 20th century, and is now on the verge of new creative realities leading to conceptual discoveries in art. The author believes that the artist keenly captures the invisible waves emitted by the developing cultures and subcultures of the 21st century, in which a body devoid of naturalistic sensuality is coldly and symbolically akin to antique statues. The author pays great attention to the analysis of new materials in Burganov’s creative work, believing that the 21st century has brought great changes not only to the form but also to the substance of the bodies of statues and sculptural compositions. Marble is replaced with plastic, bronze coexists with gypsum, metal meshes surround voids and follow the movements of the wind. Paper on an iron frame is a rightful hero of this “Olympus”. It should be noted that there is no place for imitation. New material dictates its conditions for shaping and participates in the interpretation of a new image.Analyzing the contemporary space of culture, the author states that the experiences of European crises have brought into art restraint and minimalism, democracy and the idea of some kind of universal permissiveness in creating and judging art. However, the predominance of mass culture, which received a completely new face and opportunity owing to the virtual space spilled over reality, was the main marker of the culture of the early 21st century. Today, a mixture of styles and cultures, a combination of incongruous is a new reality introduced into our lives by virtual culture. The author emphasizes that it was this invisible space that Alexander Burganov could feel and has reflected in his work. This has made his works relevant and understandable to a new generation which almost does not feel the classics. The author concludes that Alexander Burganov’s work has become a kind of bridge connecting the worlds of classics and modernity, high and grassroots culture, myths and reality.

On the tradition of teaching basic economic theory at Moscow University: past, present, future

2021 ◽  
pp. 237-254
Author(s):  
Olga Antipina ◽  
Nina Miklashevskaya
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Practical Orientation ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Economic Reality ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Historical Periods

The article examines the tradition of teaching economic theory at Moscow University since the late 19th to the early 21st century through basic textbooks, which reflect the specificity, theoretical and practical problems of the corresponding historical periods. The narrative proposed shows the emergence of innovative textbooks that embody the breakthroughs in both the subject and method of economic theory and the methodology for its teaching. Apprehension of students and recognition of colleagues have become well-deserved attributes of manuals by A.I. Chuprov, N.A. Tsagolov and Yu.N. Cheremnykh. As well as many others, they absorbed, developed, and passed on from generation to generation the experience of teaching fundamental economic disciplines. Drawing on the «pendulum principle» widely used in the research of various intellectual thoughts, the authors show the main features of the new generation of textbooks that will be in demand by students and teachers shortly. While maintaining consistency in reflecting economic reality, the new manuals should meet the requirements of digital economy, such as fundamental and, at the same time, practical orientation of students. According to the authors, basic courses and textbooks on economic theory will be more interactive while their content expansion will occur due to behavioral aspects at both micro- and macrolevels. That will allow students to learn the principles of mainstream and alternative theoretical approaches to solving urgent practical problems.

scholarly journals Breaking of onomastic stereotypes in online games of the telephone format (on the example of the game “Supreme Mandarin”)

Neophilology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 412-424
Author(s):  
Marina Y. Belyaeva
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Proper Names ◽  
Online Games ◽  
Broad Sense ◽  
Online Game ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
National Stereotypes ◽  
Participatory Observation

The aim of the work is to identify the factors of national stereotypes destruction and onomastic formulas in online games of the telephone format (on the example of the game “Supreme Mandarin”). The relevance of the research lies in the fact that the analysis of the anthroponymy and ergonymy of online games allows us to judge the place of the national and international in the gaming space, and therefore in the minds of our contemporaries. We use structural and se-mantic methods of onomastics analysis, etymological analysis, and the psychological method of participatory observation. The scientific novelty consists in the collection of new linguistic materi-al (anthroponymy and ergonymy of the online game “Supreme Mandarin”) and its analysis from the standpoint of the proper names correspondence of the setting to the nationally oriented formulas for naming persons. We reveal that the programmed system of assigning game names, as well as the names of characters, supports and simultaneously destroys the authenticity of the game’s time and space. The setting is invaded by foreign or distorted ethnically oriented formulas for naming faces, parts of characters. The strengthening of breaking stereotypes “outerly” is due to the choice of gamers (in broad sense of the term) game names, ergonomics (alliance designation) without the intervention of the system. We determine that at the same time gender correlation is lost, stability and national authenticity of the personal name are eroded, and the fashionable ideas of communities dominate. Conclusions: analysis of anthroponyms and ergonomics of the game “Supreme Mandarin” shows violations of a number of nominative traditions: the ritual of naming and changing the name, ethnic onyms marking, gender identity. The violation of the authenticity of time and space reflects the mixed mass culture of the 21st century.

On the tradition of teaching basic economic theory at Moscow University: past, present, future

2021 ◽  
pp. 237-254
Author(s):  
Olga Antipina ◽  
Nina Miklashevskaya
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Practical Orientation ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Economic Reality ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Historical Periods

The article examines the tradition of teaching economic theory at Moscow University since the late 19th to the early 21st century through basic textbooks, which reflect the specificity, theoretical and practical problems of the corresponding historical periods. The narrative proposed shows the emergence of innovative textbooks that embody the breakthroughs in both the subject and method of economic theory and the methodology for its teaching. Apprehension of students and recognition of colleagues have become well-deserved attributes of manuals by A.I. Chuprov, N.A. Tsagolov and Yu.N. Cheremnykh. As well as many others, they absorbed, developed, and passed on from generation to generation the experience of teaching fundamental economic disciplines. Drawing on the «pendulum principle» widely used in the research of various intellectual thoughts, the authors show the main features of the new generation of textbooks that will be in demand by students and teachers shortly. While maintaining consistency in reflecting economic reality, the new manuals should meet the requirements of digital economy, such as fundamental and, at the same time, practical orientation of students. According to the authors, basic courses and textbooks on economic theory will be more interactive while their content expansion will occur due to behavioral aspects at both micro- and macrolevels. That will allow students to learn the principles of mainstream and alternative theoretical approaches to solving urgent practical problems.

scholarly journals Mythologization of the woman and her image in the discourses of postmodern mass culture

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 28-38
Author(s):  
Nataliia Novokshonova
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
World View ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Primary Object ◽  
Low Culture ◽  
The Early 21St Century

The intellectual context of the early 21st century, defining new topics and subjects of research, is de facto blurring the boundaries between high and low culture, emphasizing mass culture as a phenomenon that appears to be a means of seeking distractions in the real world. In the problematic field of postmodernism, mass culture represents how an ordinary person describes himself/herself as an individual in temporal and local dimensions. When contemporary culture represents a woman in the mainstream media, a woman is by definition the primary object of creating mythologemes, usually related to the goals of consumerism. Of great importance is that the illusory world created in the imagination deforms the existing world view in which femininity is still more often represented as a biological quality. The goal of the paper is an interdisciplinary analysis of the issues of gender mythologization in postmodern philosophy and culture. The above-mentioned demonstrates the need for applying the principles of systematic analysis with a focus on hermeneutical interpretation of texts of mass culture. It should be stressed that femininity and embodiment in their combination hold a specific place in the postmodern culture; the latter is vividly represented in all genres of mass culture: both in television shows and series (Netflix, HBO, NBC, MTV) and on the wide screen. This goes to prove the phenomenon of unprecedented visualization used in different genres of mass culture. On the presumption that the heroine of mass culture in the early 21st century is an artifact, the authors of feminine artifacts are continuing to use the dominant myths of patriarchal culture, with certain changes. Therefore for the emergence of new dynamics in the mythologization of femininity, it is important to disburden women of the fear of patriarchal masculinity. Today this problem is solved in the artistic field of mass culture in its highest echelon of gender myths and mythologemes (C. Buckley, A. Monro, M. Atwood, L. Moriarty et al.).

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