Postmodern

ALTERNATIVE POSTMODERNISM: AN UNNAMED PHENOMENON

ALTERNATIVE POSTMODERNISM: AN UNNAMED PHENOMENON
21.09.2023

Some important aspects of postmodernity should be clarified. It is not a complete phenomenon, and although it was the postmodernists (in particular Derrida) who introduced the notion of 'deconstruction' (based, however, on Heidegger's notion of die Destruktion in Sein und Zeit), Postmodernity itself can be deconstructed, and not necessarily in the postmodern style.

The transmutation of the logos in postmodern society

The transmutation of the logos in postmodern society
21.06.2023

Let us trace the fate of the Logos in the Postmodern. It is extremely important to always remember that the Logos is one of the manifestations of the heroic myth, i.e. the product of the diurnal regime (according to J. Durand's classification). Nor is it the only one, nor is it absolute. The Logos includes the antithetical and pleonasmic sides of the heroic myth (heterogeneous homogenisation) and takes them to their ultimate limit, but it also leaves aspects of the Diurnal myth such as the direct and frenzied will to power, passionality and hyperbolisation in the unconscious. Of course, these aspects of the Diurnal - relatives of the Logos - also penetrate the same, but not explicitly, but through the inertia of the choreic attraction of the heroic myths to one another (i.e. not logically).

A sociology of the phase transition to postmodernism

A sociology of the phase transition to postmodernism
16.06.2023

Postmodernism is the paradigm towards which the transition from the previous paradigm, the modern, is taking place. The transition is taking place before our eyes, so today's society (at least western society, but also planetary society as far as western influence is concerned) is a society in transition. Not only is Russian society transitive in a broad sense, but also the social matrix that defines the life of humanity to this or that degree is changing its qualitative nature today.

How Wonderful to Own Nothing!

07.02.2022

Is it really so awesome to have nothing?  There is probably no longer a concept bizarre enough not to arouse our anxiety that someone will try to implement it.  In the case of ownership, this is not a new concept, only until recently has not apply