Sim will win

Looking at the conversations published in the “Russian magazine” with Mikhail Epstein , I recall: is he not the first twenty years ago (in the magazine “New World”, it seems), he proclaimed postmodernism in Russia?

Look at you, and not ashamed. Conversations, as decent, are talking ...

I am in the sense that the company has recently accumulated claims to postmodernism. Most of us consider him guilty in most of those shortcomings of our time that we are not like. And therefore, "we must fight with him." In general, what it is, we never understood, but we successfully turned it into a stamp, and twice: in the nineties, all the cool and good was called by postmodernism, now everything is boring and bad.

However, not all. For example, I am not sure that Stas Mikhailov is postmodernism.

I learned about the existence of Stas Mikhailov a couple of months ago from my boss at work. “What are you, this is now the most important singer,” he said. I was surprised because I believed that the most important singer is Valery Leontyev, well, or at least this, like him, Georgian (another), but it turned out to be like.

In any case, three have nothing to do with postmodernism.

It just so happened, with the plague nineties, we are used to considering the phenomenon to be avant -garde, that is, extreme, extremist. Konstantin Sutyan proposed a remarkable definition of the Avangard phenomenon: the avant -garde, he said, this is worse the prepared advanced part of the army, which is the first to be thrown into spears or into the fire; She is almost all dead, and not sorry. But then those who will solve the whole thing will go into battle - the guard. So, postmodernism was not any vanguard by definition, because it was a reaction to the vanguard, to overheating of artistic and theoretical thought in the blessed twentieth century: there was too much, I wanted this and that, different possibilities jerked each other, and there was an inflation of opportunities - postmodernism, when it was impossible to relate to “animal seriousness”, all the possibilities seem to seem to seem to be. compromised. Postmodernism was a reaction, and although the reaction can also have its own avant -garde, in general, this phenomenon is quite even, moderate and dull.

A classic example of a postmodern novel is considered to be the “magi” of Faulza, and this is true; At the first acquaintance with him, I did not read to the end of this six -part volume exactly fifty pages; It became so indifferent “how it ends” that he did not “abandon” (no, this would imply disappointment and annoyance), but simply stopped without anger and addiction. Although the novel has a lot of good (observations, reasoning, states, pictures), in general it is so “about anything” that the end could be missed without prejuding the meaning, like three or four-five novels of Pelevin. A pleasant, in general, book.

The classic of postmodernism is when everything is in moderation. Well -repaired, even and pleasant text in all respects. Not a “continuous mat and dissected”, as some believe, but a little a mat, a little pleasantly pleasantly shocking dismemberment. The super -Classic of postmodernism is the song “About Love”: “But do I sing a song - about love, but not to invent - a new genre, a motive motive - both poems, and get a fee all my life.” And one more thing: “My heart will say to me:“ This is about us ””, as without it, necessarily. About the mat and the dismemberment of my heart will not say "this is about us." The mat and the dissected (like everything is “too” - too shocking, too stupid, too smart) dotted the bodies of the redoubt and rotted - it is not a pity. The mainstream remained.

And in this capacity, as an average, evenly cut and painted in the practical considerable color of the mainstream, PM has established itself everywhere: in magazines, publishers, in galleries, on recording studios, Facebook and on YouTube. Our academicism is an average PM (the Big Book Award is awarded to Shishkin pleasant in all respects and sharply pore in all respects ten years ago Sorokin), and our radicalism is also an average PM (pleasant in all respects the boys of the cord, Noise Em -Si and Vasya Oblomov are struggling with state bureaucratia, vulnerability, vulgarity and vulgarity and vulgarity and vulgarity and vulgarity. fascism). The audience trained on the banana in the first case squints academicly: “Oh, big literature,” in the second - radically geners: “Gee -gy, this is the Internet, the baby”, but in fact they show the same thing here and here.

In general, a vague protest against postmodernism is a protest against the “current order of things”, just for some it is marching and Putin (power into which they are not allowed), and for others - a market (also a power into which they are not allowed). It depends on where they are not letting down anymore.

I have my own modest concept of the “fight against postmodernism”, which I will present now. So, postmodernism is an “official culture”. What is the most annoying her, it is dangerous to her. What does not annoy her, do not even think against PM to fight. Do not try to fight with PM with the help of “real life” and “real problems of people” - for official culture they simply do not exist. With the help of moral examples and spiritual exploits, it is also not necessary, she looks at them with benevolent indifference, condescendingly. The official culture is annoyed by “fascism”, but this is not necessary, the 282nd article is. The "vulgarity" remains. That is, Stas Mikhailov, who annoys everyone.

“All” is in the official culture, the exponent of the most root values ​​of which is the enlightened Internet in the range from Facebook to the lep (or what is there now), and so, outside the Internet, everyone is dragging from it, not for nothing “the most important singer”. And these other "all" are much more. (They will honestly vote for Putin under webcams, and it is already just terribly, it’s good that there is a song “Letter of Happiness” by Vasya Oblomov, calms and comforts.) It annoys what is more objectively stronger, which you cannot cope with.

Morality, ideology, well -being is not stronger than official culture, but vulgarity is stronger, and vulgarity will win. Let's be friends with her. Let's peer into it, study, penetrate, let's understand - and through it to love. There is a lot of interesting things for the researcher! Here, let's say, I recently found out that the Gentle May group - it turns out that it was not pop, but “Eurodisco”, they cannot be confused. Interestingly, and Stas Mikhailov - what is this style? I think it’s not a Russian chanson, but, say, a Russian office, and they cannot be confused either. And Grigory Leps is Russian Chancelson (although they tell about Grigory Leps the terrible that he is Ossetian).

In general, as the great Gogol bequeathed to love Russia, it is necessary to love all the worst thing in Russia, and in order to love culture (which I honestly hate), we need to love all the worst that is in culture. Since Sorokin and Seryoga Cord were brought up cowardly, it remains to love Stas Mikhailov.

I will study blogs with kittens and flickering animated pictures (fairies with wings, snowflakes) to comprehend the soul of the people and be with it when the last battle comes. I think that every honest fighter with postmodernism should do so.