Shagi/ StepsPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-3-258-276
P. V. Baulina
{"title":"Projectional images in theatre: Modes of (media)presence","authors":"P. V. Baulina","doi":"10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-3-258-276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-3-258-276","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the phenomenon of (media)presence as a projectional embodiment of objects in theatre. The aim is to describe techniques of using projectional surfaces and devices in performances, using as material Western European productions of the 2000s and 2010s. We attempt to identify and elucidate the modes of presence through the use of projectional images in theatre. The theoretical and methodological framework employed in the article includes a set of ideas at the intersection of theatre, visual, and media studies. Such a framework makes it possible to define performance as a visual event — the act of looking, and to shift the focus from technological artifacts to the processes of mediation of presence by projectional images. We introduce the concept of “(media)presence” as relevant for a productive description of the phenomenon. (Media)presence is the effect of being in the perceptual field of objects of perception, when their physical absence is compensated for by the presence of their screen substitutes. The use of projectional technologies in theatre allows one to achieve the effect of (media)presence through mediation of “life” performances. The ways in which directors utilize projectional surfaces and devices activate several modes of performative embodiment of perceptional objects through projectional images: “absent”, “composite” and “augmented” (media)presence. The text offers a complex analysis of practices of using projectional images in contemporary theatre aimed at achieving the effect of (media)presence.","PeriodicalId":36644,"journal":{"name":"Shagi/ Steps","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136259868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shagi/ StepsPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-2-269-275
N. K. Kiselyova
{"title":"Alfonso X and his “History of Spain”: Translation and publication of a monument of medieval historiography","authors":"N. K. Kiselyova","doi":"10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-2-269-275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-2-269-275","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36644,"journal":{"name":"Shagi/ Steps","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135955700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shagi/ StepsPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-1-163-184
I. V. Prus
{"title":"From Lemmings in the Internet to New Valiant Protesters: Dysphemism shkolota and the representation of adolescent participation in the public sphere","authors":"I. V. Prus","doi":"10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-1-163-184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-1-163-184","url":null,"abstract":"In the late 2010s, one can observe intensification of debates about adolescents as political subjects among the various Russian media platforms. Adolescents became an object of close attention of political actors and institutions, journalists, pop artists and ordinary internet users. This process is very noticeable in the shifts of semantics of the dysphemism shkolota (originally a disparaging definition of elementary and middle school students). The article aims to give an overview of the change in the meaning of shkolota as the “commonplace” of imagination and representation of teenagers. To find out what shkolota means, I conducted an analysis of publications and comments on LiveJournal, a social media platform and the birthplace of shkolota. A symbolic path was traced from the “Lemmings in the Internet” to “New Valiant Protesters” within twelve years. In considering the semantic boundaries and the context of shkolota in publications and comments on the LiveJournal platform and correlating them with the socio-political context of Russia, I describe the process of transformation of the dysphemism as a simultaneous expansion of adolescent participation visibility in the public sphere and the deconstruction of the image of the passive, defenseless (primarily against adult manipulation) and dangerous adolescent in public rhetoric. Analysis of how shkolota was reshaped turns out to be a method that allows us to consider from a new perspective the public rhetoric about children in contemporary Russia.","PeriodicalId":36644,"journal":{"name":"Shagi/ Steps","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135956266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shagi/ StepsPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-3-309-315
V. A. Bondarev, O. I. Rudaya
{"title":"“We must put an end to such episodes, and especially in the Kremlin”","authors":"V. A. Bondarev, O. I. Rudaya","doi":"10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-3-309-315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-3-309-315","url":null,"abstract":"The publication analyzes one of the most informative and interesting documents of personal origin which are stored in the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI) and which provide researchers with numerous data on life, daily routine, and public attitudes of citizens of Soviet Russia during the NEP period. This is a letter from V. Krylov, a cadet of the 1st Soviet Military School of the Red Army named after VTSIK, sent to the Central Committee of the RCP(b) in October 1921, describing a non-trivial incident he witnessed in the Kremlin. In his message, Krylov not only described in detail what took place before his eyes, but also gave it his own assessment and called for his addressees to react immediately to the incident. The cadet’s letter contains valuable information on the attitude of Soviet citizens to the food supply system in the RSFSR and their reaction to the violation of declarations of social justice by certain representatives of the Bolshevik elite. At the same time, Krylov’s message is a vivid example of the verbalization of naive idealism and boundless trust in the Bolshevik leaders, ardent faith in the victory of communism and sincere hope for the speedy construction of a just social order, quite common in Soviet society in the early 1920s. Thus, this document allows a detailed study of the mentality, moods and behavioral practices of early Soviet society. V. Krylov’s letter, with a commentary, is published here for the first time.","PeriodicalId":36644,"journal":{"name":"Shagi/ Steps","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136259869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shagi/ StepsPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-1-118-140
S. M. Voloshina
{"title":"Societies large and small: On the rhetoric of the Third Section under Nicholas I","authors":"S. M. Voloshina","doi":"10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-1-118-140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-1-118-140","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the evolution of the perception of the word “society” and its derivatives in documents of the Third Section during the reign of Nicholas I. The two distinct meanings of the word were used to refer to two traditional objects of surveillance by the secret police: society as a whole and a smaller part of it, an organization. While presenting its vision and analysis of “societies” of different levels in annual reports and current files, the Third Section simultaneously recorded the perception of public opinion by the state authorities, and acted as a meaning-forming institution that determined what exactly should be considered a society. Changes in the vocabulary used in the documents to describe different types of “societies” and such derivatives as “public opinion” (literally — “opinion by society”) reflect both political changes in the country and power practices. Whereas the first annual reports by the Third Section (from 1827 on) widely use the term “public opinion” (but only as a direct translation from the French, the language of the documents), the authors of the later reports totally avoid it. In addition, they tend to avoid the usage of “society” in the narrow sense, replacing it with various synonyms (such as “gathering” or “a bunch of”). During the last and most severe seven years of the reign of Nicholas I, the word “society” (in the broad sense) acquires a new meaning: the aggregate of people who are loyal to the tsar and the political regime.","PeriodicalId":36644,"journal":{"name":"Shagi/ Steps","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135956270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shagi/ StepsPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-2-243-256
A. Ye. Baryshnikov
{"title":"Imperial will or force of circumstances? A new book about Calleva Atrebatum and issues of Romano-British urbanism","authors":"A. Ye. Baryshnikov","doi":"10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-2-243-256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-2-243-256","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36644,"journal":{"name":"Shagi/ Steps","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136002829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shagi/ StepsPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-1-10-28
O. I. Togoeva
{"title":"Devil or werewolf? The motif of lycanthropy in French demonology of the 15th–16th centuries","authors":"O. I. Togoeva","doi":"10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-1-10-28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-1-10-28","url":null,"abstract":"The article analyzes the features of the treatise “Justification of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy” by Jean Petit (1408), which argued for the right of John the Fearless to murder his cousin Louis of Orleans. The author of the article pays special attention to the accusation of practicing witchcraft, which, according to Petit, turned the Duke of Orleans into a tyrant and a devil and was based, apparently, on the text of the “Policraticus” of John of Salisbury (1159). Analysis of the content and the iconographic program of the “Justification” also allows the author to hypothesize that this treatise marked the beginning of a completely new perception of the lycanthrope in French, and perhaps in all European demonological literature of the 15th–16th centuries: as a dangerous werewolf, that is, as a person whose penchant for practicing witchcraft did not simply lead him into the clutches of the devil, but turned him into a beast that posed a threat to the entire community of true Christians. Thus, the political and legal treatise of Jean Petit, as it has always been considered in historiography, acquired at the same time the features of a demonological text.","PeriodicalId":36644,"journal":{"name":"Shagi/ Steps","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136003068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shagi/ StepsPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-1-29-46
A. I. Popovich
{"title":"‘If we do not worship idols, then we worship sin in every possible way’: The topoi of pagan sacrifice in a late 17th century sermon","authors":"A. I. Popovich","doi":"10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-1-29-46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-1-29-46","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the specificity of late 17th century preachers’ employment of the topoi of sacrifice to a demon/idol/devil, which have their roots in biblical and Church Fathers’ denunciations of paganism. The article mostly focuses on sermons from the little-studied handwritten collection Statir, created by an unknown author in the Kama Region, and on sermons from the collection Spiritual Dinner (Rus. Obed Dushevnyi) by Simeon Polotsky. The works of Dimitry Rostovsky are also used to reconstruct the multidimensional context of polemics. These authors are united by their increased focus on contemporaneousness, and by their desire to offer the listener/reader by means of homilies an ideal of salvation (including ‘everyday martyrdom’), contrasting it with ‘sacrifice to idols’. The study identified sources of the topoi chosen by the authors: biblical books, the works of John Chrysostom, and sermons from the Didactic Gospel (1619) by Cyril Tranquillion-Stavrovetsky. The article shows that the circumstances which prompted the preachers to turn to these common places were the church schism and the increasing opposition of the church and state to superstition and other ‘pagan matters’. In the atmosphere of an age of change, scholars sought to combat sin through spiritual enlightenment of the flock, appealing to the inner world of man while avoiding unnecessary formalisation of their work by adapting topoi to current circumstances.","PeriodicalId":36644,"journal":{"name":"Shagi/ Steps","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136003295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shagi/ StepsPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-3-108-128
S. A. Vorontsov
{"title":"Vicious priests in the texts of Late Antiquity and Early Modernity: The unity of topics and the difference of contexts","authors":"S. A. Vorontsov","doi":"10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-3-108-128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-3-108-128","url":null,"abstract":"The article considers the problem of early modern anticlericalism through the lens of topos studies. It is argued that the anticlerical description of the priest possesses the same traits in various philosophical and historical texts of the 17–18th centuries written by authors who did not share the same views even on the clergy. These traits, ambition and avarice, lead to the tyranny of the religious leaders, which is established by means of superstition and ritual (not by direct violence). Tyranny leads to the corruption of the laity, both morally and religiously. This description derives from Christian Antiquity when the predominantly rhetorical topos of the tyrant is projected onto the figure of the bishop. In patristic texts, this topos served as the cultural antimodel, as opposed to the image of the saintly bishop. The realization of this or that model depended on the qualities (vices or virtues) of the person carrying out the bishop’s duties. In the early modern texts, this topos is at the core of the image of the clergy as a whole, which is used to criticize the state of priests in general. The explanatory framework of this corrupted character of the clergy (which may vary) appears later than the stable image of vicious priests.","PeriodicalId":36644,"journal":{"name":"Shagi/ Steps","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136259089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shagi/ StepsPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-3-315-335
M. V. Stanyukovich
{"title":"Ethnography, ethnobotany, and ethnolinguistics of Tropical Asia: A survey of Maclay Readings 2021–2022 and of a panel of the Radlov Readings 2023","authors":"M. V. Stanyukovich","doi":"10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-3-315-335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-3-315-335","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents a brief overview of three conferences organized by the Department of Australia, Oceania and Indonesia of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the RAS, St. Petersburg, in 2021–2023, Maclay Readings 2021 and 2022 and a panel on ethnobotany at the Radlov Readings 2023. Fieldwork in the countries of Southeast Asia and Oceania is the main focus of our Department. However, since Covid restrictions reduced our possibilities for travel during that period, ethnobotany, another topic traditional for our studies, was chosen as the main theme of the conference. Also, a number of papers dealt with the history, art, traditional and modern culture of the South of Asia and Oceania, as well as Austronesian and Austroasiatic languages.","PeriodicalId":36644,"journal":{"name":"Shagi/ Steps","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136259870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}