My research comprises three principal areas that are interconnected with each other:

1. The impact of political economics on the capitalist and non-capitalist epistemologies
2. Philosophy of performativity
3. Art as the institute of global contemporaneity

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The article analyses the critique of continental philosophy in the writings of Russian Cosmism and Nikolay Fedorov.

This article maps the differences in the application of systems method in Marxist dialectics, cybernetics, and poststructuralism. It studies the impact of algorithmic rationality on the speculative lexicons of philosophy—especially when philosophical dialectics is defined as nothing more than quasi-cybernetic recursivity. According to Yuk Hui, the decline of philosophy and dialectics can be contested only by second-order cybernetics as the proper successor of philosophical speculation. To dispute this bold assumption, the article embarks on a comparative inquiry into the systemic method in Marx’s political economy, cybernetics, and poststructuralism, respectively. Reference to the comparative analysis of systems method and Marxist dialectics by Igor Blauberg and Eric Yudin allows one to challenge the thesis according to which the preconditions of dialectics can be developed in the frame of cybernetic recursivity. It enables one to go farther in demonstrating the differences between the Marxist application of systems, which includes dialectical procedures and genesis, and cybernetic systematics, in which these procedures are redundant. Lev Vygotsky, Evald Ilyenkov, and Merab Mamardashvili are brought in as the exemplary methodists who elaborate Marxist methodology to encompass genesis and dialectical difference within systemic abstraction.

The article maps the principal political events that led to the polarization of autocratic and pro-Western democratic parties in Georgia in the recent 20 years. 

The paper maps the polit-economic divergences between autocracy and democracy in the post-Socialist transition, with the survey of the following issues: 1. What caused the crisis of emancipation theories after Feb. 24, 2022. 2. THe NATO issue.3. THe variegated use of surplus value in autocracy and democracy. 4. Three factors in the electoral support of post-Socialist autocracies.

Unlike numerous critical texts that question the ethical andinstitutional characteristics of Ilya Khrzhanovsky’sDauproject, in this paper I explorethe project’s genesis as acultural and ideological phenomenon. I reveal the project’s bondswith its cultural predecessors, such as Anatoly Vasiliev, BorisYukhananov, Yuri Mamleev, Vladimir Martynov,and Vladimir Sorokin. I research not only the study of Soviettotalitarianism inDau(which the project meticulously reenacts)but also the genealogy of dissident and postsocialistnon-conformist cultural codes, which,despite their critique of totalitarianism,often fall into the trap of reproducing those totalitarian features.Mapping artistic devices used inDau,the paper then focuses at length on the issues of power distribution in the organization of performative process enactedby the project’s participants.

The article analyses how the unconscious Putinism functioned in cultural politics during the last 20 years in those institutions which considered themselves independent and autonomous. It inspects the political technologies - used in state cultural politics - which apply linguistic and semantic manipulations to intercept cultural production and appropriate the activities of even those cultural agents which never planned to collaborate with state.

The article analyses how the unconscious Putinism functioned in cultural politics during the last 20 years in those institutions which considered themselves independent and autonomous. It inspects the political technologies - used in state cultural politics - which apply linguistic and semantic manipulations to intercept cultural production and appropriate the activities of even those cultural agents which never planned to collaborate with state.

This paper explores the materialist and the object-based dimension of “the ideal” in Evald Ilyenkov’s thought and, consequently, his speculative technique of converging matter and idea. The philosophic figures that Ilyenkov relies on to legitimate such a convergence are Hegel, Spinoza, and Marx. The paper reveals the complexities in Ilyenkov’s task to reconcile his dialectics of the ideal with Spinoza’s studies of Substance, tracing the discrepancies in Ilyenkov’s attempt to conjoin Hegelian and Marxian dialectics and Spinoza’s nonidealist immanentism. The reference to the researchers of Spinozism, such as Macherey, Deleuze, Badiou, Della Rocca, Oittinen, and Maidansky, confirms the difficulties in discerning dialectics in Spinoza’s thought. Ilyenkov managed to reveal that Hegel’s idealism was grounded in an objective materialism conditioned by the other-determined self, and merely needed Marx’s thought to complete the socialization of Subject; whereas Spinoza never truly needed to theorize the concept of the ideal. The key finding of the paper is in tracing how—due to developing Marxist epistemology out of Marxist political economy—Ilyenkov manages to consider social being and labor through noumenal parameters, proving that any material activity can be seen as thought-oriented.