Rethinking Contemporary Russia

The Opacity of Glass Rethinking Transparency in Contemporary Architecture

In this paper, an exchange of letters between the philosopher Jacques Derrida and architect Peter Eisenman is used as a catalyst to discuss the material qualities of glass and its relationship with the concept of transparency in architecture. In his criticism of an architecture devoid of human qualities, Derrida uses glass, defined through Walter Benjamin’s writings, as a hard and cold material...

ForbiddEn dandyisM: iMPEriaL aEsthEtiCs in ContEMPorary russia

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News Product ion in Contemporary Russia

j This article offers a new approach to power relations in the sphere of mass media production in Russia. The analysis focuses on television news – an object of the fiercest struggle among various agents of power (including news producers themselves). Unlike previous works, mostly done as institutional analysis, the proposed approach emphasizes the informal and dynamic character of these power ...

Orthodoxy and the Search for Identity in Contemporary Russia

This paper examines important issues associated with the search for national identity in contemporary Russia following the disappearance of the Soviet Union, particularly the contribution of Orthodoxy to that discussion. It considers the historical context in which the debate about identity has taken place and the reasons for the re-emergence of Orthodoxy as a significant marker of identity. Th...

Rethinking Clientelism: Demands, Discourses and Practices in Contemporary Brazil