Clarifying Positions
1/2013
Forum AI:
Technologies of Bringing a “True” Freedom to the One-Sixth of the World: On Soviet Modernity, Progressivism, and Beyond (Discussing Mark Lipovetsky’s “The Poetics of ITR Discourse”)
Технологии привнесения “истинной” свободы на одну шестую часть суши: советская модерность, прогрессивизм и прочее (обсуждение “Поэтики дискурса ИТР” Марка Липовецкого)
SUMMARY:
In his response to the colleagues’ critique, Lipovetsky emphasizes the discursive (as opposed to political and/or ideological) character of the intelligentsia community, shaped by the ITR discourse. Developing ideas generated by the discussion and revisiting the trope of “progressor”, he introduces a hypothesis of this discursive formation as a version of “internal colonization” (Alexander Etkind). In this capacity, this discourse has obtained a central position in late Soviet culture and, having undergone the transformation, preserved its significance, now predominantly conservative, for post-Soviet culture.