Пост-соц как тенденция современной русской культуры

Abstract

The article discusses the fusion of postmodernist discursive elements with the models inherited from Socialist Realism in post-Soviet culture of the 2000s. This tendency emerges as a response to a neo-conservative turn in the cultural politics of 229 the period. The most significant aspect of this tendency is detected in the focus on the war (or war-like) chronotope and conflicts. The postmodernist features of this hybridized discourse can be seen in the transformation of the war condition into a performative ritual, engaging the reader/viewer in the ecstatics of violence. However, the postmodernist play undermines "positive" message of a post-sots text: the "truth" of the protagonist turns out to be a shallow and self-contradictory rhetorics intended to mask the self-contained character of rituals of violence. The hypothesis of post-sots is tested against a wide number of films and texts of the period. Alexei Balabanov film "War" is analyzed as a model text representative for this tendency.