And who will do, Sorokin?

There is no systemic (so that with a statement about everything at once and for years to come) there is no political activity to such an extent that the state begins to introduce itself completely equal to the housing and communal services , and the rest of the other institutions - only the scenery in which they do not know what to occupy themselves. No, they know, and the rest is unknown-this, in particular, is a question of a description that is not enough. Well, this is not the creation of a Russian national dream, which they were going to come up with it last week. Or the elections in the Constitutional Court - an action, be that as it may, is political. But in the absence of a framework, it looks only for a divertissance for its participants.

We need, we need a frame-that is, traditional, routine and even banal opinions of political scientists and all Russian Columnists on common topics. But on the eve of the weekend, two more or less frame articles appeared: V. Polukhov and E. Gontmaker. Of course, here about them without privacy, you need the most common frame, and links to articles are given.

"Country on the verge of a nervous breakdown"

V. PPP, " Country on the verge of nervous breakdown." The article is large, but it is wrong with the subtitle, in which the conclusion is already. Everything has already been said, why read further when right away: " Russia seems to have already abandoned European choice "?

Moreover, the next paragraph is another conclusion, except perhaps more specifically: “ It’s not true that the current government has no ideology, that it is all right through the pragmatic, that, except for money, it is not interested in anything, and how much more money is, the more intricate its political philosophy. The other thing is that the power was shy to time for time. To propagate, in public, an ideological unisex. but sooner or later it becomes clear. "Pushism" . "

Here, of course, a stylistic contradiction is presented: how can an explosion mimimi “Pushism” mean something “solid, like tin”? Actually, regarding the "firmness of tin" there are also doubts of a stylistic nature. Which, of course, is intriguing, inciting to read on, but at the end there will be an explanation of the new term: " Putinism even in its current cropped form" Pushism "is far from fascism. But this is the stem cell from which fascism can be easily grown if desired ." The word "Pushism" did not become tougher from this, but we believe that this is not necessary for the stem cell.

The article is big. In it about how it was long, recently and how it will be soon: “ Russia is struck by the syndrome of cultural immunodeficiency. At the same time, the experience of not only Russia itself, but also countries with much more powerful cultural traditions of resistance to ignorance shows that no one is safe from the attacks of historical hysteria. Germany and Italy were gone through it, the United States was very close to this. Russia was now close to Russia on the verge of Russia. nervous breakdown . " That is, this frame also has a temporary coordinate.

"Reconstruction of the real" Putin doctrine "

Gontmamer has exactly the same. The “ reconstruction of the real“ Putin doctrine ”“ reports that “ the president made a conceptual, worldview, if you like, strategic choice .” This, of course, is a real technological frame. It is reported that the reason for the new doctrine was a) the global economic crisis and b) " rallies of the end of the past - the beginning of this year ." For the second occasion, an explanation: " Society, having received a significant increase in life for the previous well -fed years of oil and gas, instead of humble gratitude to the" national leader "demanded honest elections and just respect for himself ."

But the crisis is still more important: " On the one hand, he showed the vulnerability of the seemingly super -modern financial instruments." On the other hand, if in the West, the pace of economic growth simply went to zero and unemployment has grown, then "in Russia in 2009, more than 9%reduction in GDP was recorded. Yes, then this fall was mainly won, but our economy’s dependence on world prices for raw materials increased even more ."

Accordingly, something had to be decided. Options, according to Gontmacher, two:
" - intensively integrated into the world not only economic, but also a military -political space, conditionally called the West, receiving at least small guarantees of maintaining internal stability. The example of Greece is characteristic, which, having managed to jump into the European Union, now sucks hundreds of billions of euros from it;
- Turn to the west, reorienting economic relations towards China and a number of other Asian countries, as well as activating integration processes in the post -Soviet space . "

Of course, the second option was chosen. But, it seems, it would be difficult to fit into the EU of Russia, especially - to get the opportunity to suck out of it like Greece. Not everything is clear about the Chinese course, such geopolitical turns is a slow matter, especially since the growth of activity in the study of the Chinese language and the transfer of funds in Yuan is not noticeable.

Immediately, the second topic (rallies) in the option on which control model to rely on. Gontmamer believes that Putin discovered: " The global economic crisis showed the helplessness of democrati and." Populists are everywhere sank into power (and with populists the crisis cannot be defeated), in addition, the elections lead to the victories of the fundamentalists, " as this happened, for example, in Egypt ." Moreover, “ the United States could not take control of the situation in the Middle East, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and are forced to endure the existence of a whole bouquet of levopopulistic and frankly hostile regimes in Latin America. And here is still strengthening and going through China! ”

As a result, we will not contact the West, but we will be like in China: “ Russia, the organic alienity for it of the values ​​of democracy, the market economy of the European type, human rights, it becomes not just a beautiful slogan for indulging the mood of a certain part of our society, but a real agenda of the day to build the current politician of ki”. Now there is a question of choosing support within the country. Of course, these are not those “ 15-20% of Russians who openly require changes ”, but “ the most conservative and even fundamentalist layers, the number of active representatives of which is unlikely to exceed several percent of the adult population.”

This is the "doctrine of Putin", it is also a frame for discussing about domestic and foreign policy. That is, the transition to deep self -sufficiency, all that. Moreover, this is with both authors, and in the amount of two articles a clear scenario is formed. For such and such reasons, V. Putin turned away from Europe, chose the Russian self -isolation strategy, while looking at China and relies on the most conservative segments of the population. As a result, the country will fall out of the global context and break up.

Ok, how is the frame suitable, but what now to do with this constructive fatalism and who will do it? At least study this frame to find holes in Putin's hypothetical strategy? And here is what is interesting: both authors refer to V. Sorokin. Well, then this is work for him.

Around Sorokin

Here is Sorokin at the gontmaker: “ In social life, a quick equalization will occur in poverty. Institutes such as elections, separation of powers, federalism will remain, but the degree of their imitation will increase sharply in comparison even with the current time. They will be needed in such a way as to maintain the appearance of its full -fledged public life.“ We will see further fraternity with the countries that contrast the West, contrasting themselves The gradual falling under the influence of China (remember the "Oprichnik Day" by Vladimir Sorokin) . "

At Pastukhov: " It is pointless to describe the consequences - it is easier to re -read the books of Voinovich and Sorokin A." And - he himself produces almost an art paragraph in about the same spirit: “ In a few decades, as a result of voluntary cultural self -isolation, Russia, torn from the world historical context, will appear before humanity doomed out of an outcast like North Korea. And Chinese tourists will go here as a safari to shoot archaic industrial landscapes on Japanese chambers. In total, the country will decay into parts, each of which will continue its historical existence as a satellite in the orbit of some other culture . "

I do not question the greatness of V. Sorokin, we are talking about people who write about politics and strategies. It is curious that V. Popukhov did not even mention what book Sorokin was holding in his mind. By default, it should be assumed that this is the same "Oprichnik Day", about which the Hontmaker. Some problem is that Sorokin can be arbitrarily great in his political foresight, but the text is still old. Yes, of course, the artist sees on the years ahead, but - once again - the matter is not about the artists, but what is the meaning of political scientists and experts to use artifacts as indirect, but - justification of their thoughts? In their industry it is already more specific, but it turns out that they adjust their vision of the world and Putin to the existing artifact. As a solution to the problem - to the answer. But if it was an answer of some other task?

Moreover, such references mean that the approach to strategies, agendas and frames occurs at an emotional level. That is, political problems can be solved only in such an irrational-sensory version. Yes, this is also the result and a serious, but also the irrational-emotional method also has its own technological reasons. The "Oprichnik Day", in general, is the result of the author of the author’s creative methods to the morals of the company in accordance with the request of the public he has captured by him. Everything is kul, but if specialists in political strategies use a mass artistic product as a theoretical basis for their conclusions - what is now political science in comparison with art? It turns out, two orders of magnitude more primitive?

Method

This, for example, to the fact that since Sorokin has a technique that allows him to successfully describe the situation, experts should not turn to his applied work, but to the methodology itself. And it is well known and recorded, for example, in the " Dictionary of the Terms of the Moscow Conceptual School" ("Ad Marginem", Moscow, 1999). There is no doubt that the conceptual apparatus assembled by the author edited by A. Monastirsky and today applies in such an applied industry as political science.

For example, personally, Sorokino positions:
Rotten Brido - the image of decaying matter, the entropy of the world.
Rotten texts - texts that are not able to "dry out" in temporary space.
Purulent - the state of metaphysical chaos.
Rotten Pinocchio - the population of "worlds and areas of inconstancy."

There is not only him:
The rotten places of the golden halo are aesthetic criticism of the most sacred places of any ideologies (the term A. Monastyrsky. CD. Action “Press to the rotten places of the Golden halo”, 4 t. PZG, 1987).
Destroological thirst - this refers to the idea of ​​the Russian “collective unconscious” as a single undivided “body”, painfully wishing to know about himself that it is “actually”. (I. Kabakov).
Soft aggression - marks the inevitable dependence of the speaker on the seemingly accidental speech, the impossibility of a completely external position. The voidness is constantly filled with soft skeletons of the once produced speech acts, not converted to another (such visibility) to another, but into the void (“soft aggression”-the name of the performance of the Rama group, which took place on February 19, 1989 in the presence of 11 spectators).
Cutting the sets-the identification of mechanisms in other people's semantic territories that operate simultaneously in their own, alien, other (V. Zakharov. A series of works of the early 90s).

And finally (you could quote most of the dictionary):
"Bunnies and hedgehogs are the highest ontological and" cultural "icons of children's texts and illustrations. Like all sorts of icons, bunnies and hedgehogs are outside transmutations and represent imperishable metacons inside ontological vortices (V. Pivovarov." Methatampsichosis ", 1993)."

Obviously, such concepts are quite suitable for describing political situations and strategies. It would be more effective and more pragmatic to use them, and not quote artistic conclusions already made on the basis of these concepts. Moreover, the expansion of the vocabulary and conceptual reserve also bears the humanistic chance that - contrary to the predicted fundamental -conservative insulation - will not work out with it. Because life is tougher (V. Sorokin).

Read also an interview with Evgeny Gontmacher " Doctrine Putin-1 "