Keywords
How to Cite
Abstract
The text is a contemplation review of the new book by V.V. Savchuk. Fence as a balance of power. (St. Petersburg: Publishing House “Academy of Culture Research”, 2021. - 249 p.). The book raises a wide range of problems: the world as an extension of the skin, cultural rhythms of the collective body, principles of building trust and openness, mechanisms of psychological isolation and social distancing, current forms of environmental reflection and art practice. The fence turns out to be one of those limiting things, after the invention of which it is not clear how to think of culture without it. An excursion into the author's thought is given, the logic of the narrative being built is commented to reflect on the embarrassing omnipresence and inevitability of the fence. How did culture end up crucified on the fence? When is the fence not a source of comfort, but of excess discipline and increasing anxiety? What is intimidation fraught with? All these questions are outlined and deeply investigated by the author, while the task of this text is to maximize attention both to the book and to the problem. In other words, start a productive dialogue about fences - which, paradoxically, has hardly been noticed in humanistic research.
References
Cardini, F. (1987). The Origins of Medieval Chivalry. Moscow: Progress. (In Russian).
Carrier, J.-C., & Eco, W. (2010). Don't hope to get rid of the books. St. Petersburg: Symposium. (In Russian).
Deleuze, J. (2004). Negotiations. 1972-1990. St. Petersburg: Nauka. (In Russian).
Duby, J. (2002). Time of the Cathedrals. Art and Society 980-1420. Moscow: Ladomir. (In Russian).
Hegel, G. W. F. (1968). Aesthetics. In four volumes. Volume 1. Moscow: Art. (In Russian).
Jamieson, F. (2014). Postmodernism and the Consumer Society. In Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture (pp. 288–309). Moscow; Yekaterinburg: Cabinet Scientist. (In Russian).
Kantorovich, E. (2015). The Two Bodies of the King. A Study in Medieval Political Theology. Moscow: Gaidar Institute Press. (In Russian).
Kittler, F. (2009). Optical Media. Berlin Lectures 1999. (О. Nikiforov & B. Skuratov, Trans.). Moscow: Logos; Gnosis.. (In Russian).
Konings, M. (2015). The Emotional Logic of Capitalism: What Progressives Have Missed. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Latour, B. (2017). Visualization and cognition: Picturing things together. Logos, 27(2), 95–156. (In Russian).
Likhachev, D. S. (1998). The Poetry of Gardens: Toward the Semantics of Garden and Garden Styles. The Garden as Text. Moscow: Soglasiye. (In Russian).
McKenna, T. (1993). Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge. A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution. New York: Bantam.
Plutarch. (1961). Comparative Biographies. In three volumes. Volume I. Moscow: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. (In Russian).
Renan, E. (1990). The Life of Jesus. Moscow: Slovo. (In Russian).
Shapin, S., & Schaffer, S. (1985). Leviathan and the air-pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life. Princeton, New Jersey.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.