Rastyam T. Aliev

National Research University Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg, Russia · Laboratory of Critical Cultural Theory

In the era of global digitalization, interfaces have become an essential part of social and cultural life, defining the interaction between the individual and the collective. The subject of this article is to analyze the relationship between interface design and socio-ethical aspects of society. The research focuses on how interfaces reflect and sh...

In this essay, the TV series "Severance" (2022) serves as a lens through which we explore the role and function of memory and oblivion in molding social relations and influencing the human psyche. While the narrative of the series touches on many pertinent issues, the realm of social memory remains insufficiently plumbed by researchers, paving the...

The article delves into the phenomenon of school shootings, interpreting these as metaphorical representations of profound dysfunctions in cultural communication. The shootings are examined through the lens of the concept "Ritual of Chiral Initiation" introduced by the author. This concept portrays school shootings as inverted rituals in which trad...

The article is the final in a series of studies we conducted in the period from 2018 to 2022, and focuses on the transformation of the image of the Other in the period of the Covid-19 pandemic. For this study, we used Internet query statistics, extracting a series of markers, which we divided into three groups: food, clothing(appearance), and sexua...

The study focuses on the transformation of the alimentary models of the imaginative Other. Based on the statistics of the Russian Internet queries, the authors identified a number of markers, determining the main alimentary models of the Other. They carried out a comparative analysis of the obtained in 2018-2019 (pre-Сovid-19) models with similar P...

The digital age has greatly changed the way information is stored and accessed. The Internet allows us to retrieve an unlimited amount of data from anywhere, at any time of the day or night. The search for new information consistently takes place via search engines, which process and store user query statistics. The analysis of these queries allows...

The article is an opening message from the journal's editors summarizing the key aspects of the issue.

This article analyzes the post-Covid image of the Other in the gastronomic aspect. The research is a continuation of complex studies on the construction of models of the Otherness and identification of alerting markers in the modern Internet space. The authors rely on the assumption that food culture is a basic characteristic, through which both se...

Рецензия на книгу McCarthy, M., Mynott, J., & Marren P. (2020). The Consolation of Nature. Spring in the Time of Coronavirus. London: Hodder Studio.

Thee article analyzes how some Far Eastern media are integrating into globalization processes, forming a unique situation and going far beyond the national media landscape. All this becomes possible because of the specificcs of the "new" media, the distinctive feature of which is the feedback from users. If in "old" classical media, their main func...

В данной статье поднимается проблема конструирования тела комиксного супергероя. Автор предположил, что телесность супергероического персонажа (комиксов, кинофильмов, телевизионных сериалов) формируется по тем же самым законам, что и тело Другого/Чужого, то есть на шаблонных представлениях субъекта об инаковости (паттернах вестиментарности, алимент...

The article is an opening message from the journal's editors summarizing the key aspects of the issue.

The article is devoted to the study of the problems of campaigns to eliminate illiteracy of the adult population, which were carried out in Eastern Transbaikalia in the 1920s. The Soviet policy of raising the educational level of adult able-bodied workers and peasants has repeatedly become the subject of research by historians, sociologists, teache...