Ethics and aesthetics of Russian rock (as exemplified by K. Kinchev`s creative work)

The paper deals with the analysis of ethical and aesthetic aspects of Russian rock by the example of the work of one of its prominent representatives Konstantin Kinchev. The authors suggest that Russian rock poetry is an organic and distinctive element of the large text of Russian culture, reflecting its deep typological characteristics. This is primarily a synthesis of literature and philosophy with a prevalence of moral issues. The mutual transition between the ethical and the existential, which is characteristic of Russian philosophical culture finds its highest embodiment in the work of K. Kinchev. From this point of view, the paper addresses some important aspects of the rock poet’s creative career, which are characterized by very strong spiritual conflicts, manifested in such topics as a painful search for truth, rushing from darkness to light, immersion in infernal areas, etc. The paper shows that these states are necessary for generating of a full-fledged art world, which is unthinkable without such contradictions. Thus, the authors debunk traditionally reduced and openly negative image of the representative of rock culture as a carrier of aggressive and destructive principles. The feeling that a poetic gift of the creator makes him a part of the divine being, and, accordingly, morally responsible for each word spoken comes to be important for all the work of K. Kinchev. As the paper identifies this is an essentially religious concept of artistic creation, rooted in the ideas of N. V. Gogol.

TYPOLOGY OF JOURNALISM GENRES: MODERN THEORETICAL DISCUSSIONS

The subject of the current article is the transformation of journalism genres in recent decades. These changes take place under the influence of direct journalistic practice, globalization of the information space, socio-political processes and audience requests. The article considers academic discussions on the typology of journalism genres, draws attention to the criteria of genre differentiation on the basis of which distinguish informational, analytical and publicism genres, and presents modern approaches to typologies. It is proved that changes in the system of journalism genres take place due to the substitution of some samples with others. Found out that the degree of interaction may be different. The issues of interpenetration and intercorrelation of genres are analyzed. If in the first case it is a question of diffusion and overcoming of genre borders, in the second it is about a new structured formation. The author concludes that the transformation of journalistic genres is an objective and inevitable process conditioned by both internal (individual and editorial creative development) and external (political and economic) factors. Journalistic works are deprived of a clear genre attribution: informational can turn into analytical, analytical – into publicism. The blurring of genre canons, the mutual transition of genres leads to the fact that the purity of the genre loses its significance. In general, intercorrelation and interpenetration provide the mutual enrichment of the genre system which still remains relatively stable although it is currently under revision. Attempts to radically revise it, establish a new expanded genre division or mechanically transfer foreign classifications to domestic practice do not always bring the expected result. Therefore, discussions about which genre niche a text belongs to, what is it (genre, form or style?) are still ongoing. Today the concept of “genre” is quite relative. Its vision as a historically formed category is reconsidered due to the inclusion of elements of different genres in the journalistic work.

Rights and duties of the individual as factors of the quality of life

The genesis of rights and duties of the individual as fundamental characteristics and the quality of a human life is presented in the dialectics of objectification as disobjectification of individuals' substance, their synthesis and individualization. It is stressed that the quantitative increase of officially recognized individual rights protected by the state strengthens the individualist tendencies in social relations. Mutual transition of rights and duties is confirmed by the dynamics of a personal life path.

DOCUMENTARY AS A PHANTOM

The aim of the study is to reflect on the problem of the “documentariness” of documentary films based on the refinement of the semantic spectrum of the “documentary” concept. The definitions spectrum of the “documentary” concept in classical and post-non-classical film studies from B. Matushevsky, J. Grierson and D. Vertov to R. M. Barsam, J. Gaines, P. Lorentz, R. D. McKenn, B. Nichols, M. Renov, L. Ward (and others) is analyzed. As a generalization of these definitions, the author’s definition of “documentary” is proposed: the term “documentary” refers to a film not as an affirmative form of a completed film statement, but as an interrogative form of an open film gesture balancing on the verge of “truth” and “fiction”, as the continuity of an implicit mutual transition between non-fiction and fiction methods of cinema narration, a kind of hybrid between the video fixation of authentic facts with documentary value and their cinematic interpretation, which involves a reconfiguration of the reality caused by the “observer effect,” an interpretation of documented facts, and a creative implication of the ideas of the authors of the film. are a kind of hybrid between cinema recording of authentic facts of documentary value and cinematic interpretation of them, which involves reconfiguration of reality caused by the “observer effect”, author's interpretation of documented facts and creative implication of the ideas of movie makers. “Hybrid” genres combining the features of documentary and features of non-fiction film are described: “docudrama”, “mockumentary”, and the “art-dock”. The problem of the “documentariness” of documentary is considered with the help of a number of film cases from L. Riefenstahl, P. Watkins and R. Carmen to V. Mansky, S. Loznitsa and I. Khrzhanovsky. The main conclusion to the study is the assertion that there is sufficient reason to consider “documentary” a very abstracted “empty signifier” – a concept with a “blurred semantic field” and a “weak ontological status”. In general, the “documentariness” of documentary is as much desired as the shaky movie illusion: there are documentary shotings and documentary shots as the primary material of the film, but the “documentary” film as such does not exist, or it is a phantom.

Child in Time. Autobiographic Battles of Vladimir Nabokov

This article is devoted to the analysis of autobiography as a form of anthropological practice of yourself. The autobiography of Vladimir Nabokov’s “Other Shores” has been investigated from this perspective in connection with his other works. The philosophical side of Nabokov’s memoirs is considered here. This made it possible to formulate the main problems of the writer’s autobiographical work: the ratio of memory and imagination when plotting, the difference between fact and event in the structure of memory, the degree of individual freedom from coercion of objective historical circumstances, the possibility of discerning the meaning of one’s own biography long before the end of physical life. As a result of the study, Nabokov’s autobiography is characterized as a struggle against time for personal immortality. In this struggle, the writer is not so much expressing as creating yourself. He takes an active position in the act of remembrance, directing memory into the mainstream of the search for the meaning of his past, starting from early childhood. A person who remembers himself gets the opportunity to break out of the linear course of time, to distinguish repetitions in the past and read them as signs of his biography. Finally, reconfiguring biographic optics allows the author to come to a point of view from which he, through ordinary objects, begins to see not only the past and the future in their mutual transition, but also eternity. Thus, the writer avoids the main threat hanging over the mortal creature – the prospect of its annihilation.

Influence of Gypsum Binder Phase Composition on Operational and Mechanical Properties of the Hydration Product

The properties of various thermal modifications and forms of calcium sulfate and the conditions of their mutual transition are studied. It is established that the mode of heat treatment of gypsum raw materials affects significantly the nature of the subsequent hydration of the gypsum binder. It is established that the values of pH and pCa suspensions of gypsum binders depend on the temperature of heat treatment of natural gypsum, vary over time and characterize the processes occurring during hydration and hardening of gypsum binders. The values of pH and pCa suspensions of gypsum binders can serve as design criteria for innovative multiphase gypsum binders.

Study of Architecture and Environment Design Based on the Fold Theory of Deleuze

Based on the smooth space thinking proposed by contemporary French philosopher Deleuze, this paper describes the ideas of architectural design from the mutual transition and conversion of buildings and environment, and the design of smooth space total three aspects, to provide the reference for future architectural design.

The case of histiocytosis X (Hand - Schüller – Christian disease) with thyroid gland lesion

Histiocytosis X, which is a rare disease, combines 3 related but different in clinical manifestation, course and prognosis of the syndrome: eosinophilic granuloma (Taratynovs disease), Hand Schller Christian disease (syndrome) and Letterer Siw disease (syndrome). The clinical picture of Hend Schller Christian disease was first described by Hand in 1893, then by Schller in 1915 and Christian in 1920. The term histiocytosis X was first proposed in 1953 by Liechtenstein, who combined all 3 of the aforementioned diseases under this name. on the basis of the similarity of the clinical picture, the possibility of a mutual transition from one state to another and typical morphological manifestations consisting in the proliferation of histiocytes and the accumulation of various lipids in their cytoplasm. In 1965, this concept was confirmed in all three diseases, there are no special pentalaminar markers in the cytoplasm of histiocytes that are detected in Langerhans cells (hence the name of these inclusions - "Langerhans cell granules"), the origin and biological significance of which remains unclear. Histiocytes have no signs of atypia, although they infiltrate many organs and tissues retain their normal properties. Histiocytic proliferation can develop in various organs and tissues, causing them to corresponding functional and morphological changes.