Dennis Ioffe
Biographic Data
| ID | 1163121 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dennis Ioffe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dennis |
| FAMILY NAME | Ioffe |
| SIGNATURE | IOFFE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Libre de Bruxelles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7701-2662 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Multiple Histories of Russian Occultism and the Unfinished Modernity
The essay offers an expansive and multi-stratified investigation into the role of esoteric traditions within the development of Russian modernity, reframing occultism not as an eccentric deviation but as a foundational epistemological regime integral to Russia’s aesthetic, philosophical, and political evolution. By analyzing the arc from Petrine-era alchemical statecraft to the techno-theurgical aspirations of Russian Cosmism and the esoteric vis…
The Avant-Garde Innovation and Free Improvisation in Soviet Music
This Special Issue of ARTS allocates considerable scholarly and analytical attention to the intricate exploration of performative traditions of experimentation within the Russian and Soviet milieus [...]
Russian Formalism and Modernist Formalesque
The semiotic, particularly linguistic, essence of Futurism arguably laid the foundation for the early theories of Russian Formalism. Viktor Shklovsky, drawing inspiration from Futurist works, introduced the intriguing concept of the resurrection of the word to establish the theory of creative estrangement. Within Russian Modernism and Avant-Garde, exemplified by Symbolism and Futurism, a noteworthy development was establishing a dynamic interacti…
Evgeny Dobrenko and Natalia Jonsson-Skradol. State Laughter
Griby i Mukhi
This paper aims to observe, contextualize, and analyze the multifaceted religious fungal foundations of Moscow Conceptualism within the context of Slavic and European esoteric mythological praxis. By unveiling the thematic basis of their transgressive spiritual endeavors, this study seeks to enhance our comprehension of this artistic and literary movement in the Western world. Besides exploring the erotic aesthetics associated with mushrooms, sig…
Avant-Garde versus Tradition, a Case Study—Archaic Ritual Imagery in Malevich
Serving as a conceptual introduction to the ARTS special issue, the article discusses the importance of archaic imagery and poetics of a major avant-garde actor who often symbolizes the main axis of Slavic radical modernism in its Avant-garde phase. Kazimir Malevich has widely explored religious archaic imagery in his oeuvre, engaging in a dialog with a historical tradition of representation. The article discusses Malevich’s iconic legacy, zoomin…
All Future Plunges to the Past
José Vergara’s fascinating monograph, All Future Plunges to the Past, is focused on one of the most thought-provoking subjects in Anglo-Russian literary relations: the reception of James Joyce (and his literary revolution) in Russia. The author has had some important predecessors, notably Neil Cornwell in Britain and Sergei Khoruzhiy in Russia, who have written extensive monographs on the subject. Cornwell offered a positivist critical study and …
The Symbolic Capital of Khlebnikov and Mayakovsky Versus Avant-Garde Performativity. Semiotic Pragmatics of Avant-Garde Behavior and Life Creation
Apart from offering a new glance upon the reasons of the “last personal conflict” between Mayakovsky and Khlebnikov, this paper explores the differences in “discursive recognition” of the two major Russian Futurist poets. These differences reflect the Soviet reception of two prominent symbolists: Andrei Bely and Alexander Blok. The “approved” symbolist Blok was preferable to the “controversial” and “bewildered” Bely, who was published less freque…
East-European Critical Thought
The Introductory article offers a general overview of the highly complicated topic of religious and mythological consciousness discussed in sub-species narrative critique and literary theory. It also provides a detailed context for the wide array of religious matters discussed in this special volume of Religions. Each of the nineteen papers is positioned within its own particular thematic discourse
The Grand Narrative of the Mukhomor
This article addresses the complex role of mushrooms, particularly that of the fly agaric ( Amanita muscaria ) [Russian: Mukhomor ], in the art of Moscow conceptualism in a broad setting. This paper explores the mythopoetic theme of mushroom-induced beliefs, which influenced the Moscow conceptualists, and employs background historical scholarship by R.G. Wasson, V.N. Toporov, T.J. Elizarenkova, and others. Aside from the mushrooms per se that wer…
The Garden of Hidden Delights of the Russian-Jewish Avant-Garde
What is the Russian-Jewish Avant-Garde? How can it be defined in recent scholarly bibliography? The suggestive Jewish element in Russian Modernism was always, quite heavily (and at times playfully), pronounced. The term, then, represents an umbrella concept that unites both currents within the Russian Jewish community, the religious and the secular, in the perspective of its tortuous history. Secular Jewish art flourished in St. Petersburg, where…
The Futurist Pragmatics of Life-Creation and the Performative Ideology of the Avant-Garde. Looking at Aleksej Kručenych Through the Prism of Life-Writing
Griby i Mukhi
This paper aims to observe, contextualize, and analyze the multifaceted religious fungal foundations of Moscow Conceptualism within the context of Slavic and European esoteric mythological praxis. By unveiling the thematic basis of their transgressive spiritual endeavors, this study seeks to enhance our comprehension of this artistic and literary movement in the Western world. Besides exploring the erotic aesthetics associated with mushrooms, sig…
East-European Critical Thought
The Introductory article offers a general overview of the highly complicated topic of religious and mythological consciousness discussed in sub-species narrative critique and literary theory. It also provides a detailed context for the wide array of religious matters discussed in this special volume of Religions. Each of the nineteen papers is positioned within its own particular thematic discourse
The Grand Narrative of the Mukhomor
This article addresses the complex role of mushrooms, particularly that of the fly agaric ( Amanita muscaria ) [Russian: Mukhomor ], in the art of Moscow conceptualism in a broad setting. This paper explores the mythopoetic theme of mushroom-induced beliefs, which influenced the Moscow conceptualists, and employs background historical scholarship by R.G. Wasson, V.N. Toporov, T.J. Elizarenkova, and others. Aside from the mushrooms per se that wer…
The Futurist Pragmatics of Life-Creation and the Performative Ideology of the Avant-Garde. Looking at Aleksej Kručenych Through the Prism of Life-Writing
The Garden of Hidden Delights of the Russian-Jewish Avant-Garde
What is the Russian-Jewish Avant-Garde? How can it be defined in recent scholarly bibliography? The suggestive Jewish element in Russian Modernism was always, quite heavily (and at times playfully), pronounced. The term, then, represents an umbrella concept that unites both currents within the Russian Jewish community, the religious and the secular, in the perspective of its tortuous history. Secular Jewish art flourished in St. Petersburg, where…
The Grand Narrative of the Mukhomor
This article addresses the complex role of mushrooms, particularly that of the fly agaric ( Amanita muscaria ) [Russian: Mukhomor ], in the art of Moscow conceptualism in a broad setting. This paper explores the mythopoetic theme of mushroom-induced beliefs, which influenced the Moscow conceptualists, and employs background historical scholarship by R.G. Wasson, V.N. Toporov, T.J. Elizarenkova, and others. Aside from the mushrooms per se that wer…
East-European Critical Thought
The Introductory article offers a general overview of the highly complicated topic of religious and mythological consciousness discussed in sub-species narrative critique and literary theory. It also provides a detailed context for the wide array of religious matters discussed in this special volume of Religions. Each of the nineteen papers is positioned within its own particular thematic discourse
The Symbolic Capital of Khlebnikov and Mayakovsky Versus Avant-Garde Performativity. Semiotic Pragmatics of Avant-Garde Behavior and Life Creation
Apart from offering a new glance upon the reasons of the “last personal conflict” between Mayakovsky and Khlebnikov, this paper explores the differences in “discursive recognition” of the two major Russian Futurist poets. These differences reflect the Soviet reception of two prominent symbolists: Andrei Bely and Alexander Blok. The “approved” symbolist Blok was preferable to the “controversial” and “bewildered” Bely, who was published less freque…
Avant-Garde versus Tradition, a Case Study—Archaic Ritual Imagery in Malevich
Serving as a conceptual introduction to the ARTS special issue, the article discusses the importance of archaic imagery and poetics of a major avant-garde actor who often symbolizes the main axis of Slavic radical modernism in its Avant-garde phase. Kazimir Malevich has widely explored religious archaic imagery in his oeuvre, engaging in a dialog with a historical tradition of representation. The article discusses Malevich’s iconic legacy, zoomin…
All Future Plunges to the Past
José Vergara’s fascinating monograph, All Future Plunges to the Past, is focused on one of the most thought-provoking subjects in Anglo-Russian literary relations: the reception of James Joyce (and his literary revolution) in Russia. The author has had some important predecessors, notably Neil Cornwell in Britain and Sergei Khoruzhiy in Russia, who have written extensive monographs on the subject. Cornwell offered a positivist critical study and …
Evgeny Dobrenko and Natalia Jonsson-Skradol. State Laughter
Griby i Mukhi
This paper aims to observe, contextualize, and analyze the multifaceted religious fungal foundations of Moscow Conceptualism within the context of Slavic and European esoteric mythological praxis. By unveiling the thematic basis of their transgressive spiritual endeavors, this study seeks to enhance our comprehension of this artistic and literary movement in the Western world. Besides exploring the erotic aesthetics associated with mushrooms, sig…
Multiple Histories of Russian Occultism and the Unfinished Modernity
The essay offers an expansive and multi-stratified investigation into the role of esoteric traditions within the development of Russian modernity, reframing occultism not as an eccentric deviation but as a foundational epistemological regime integral to Russia’s aesthetic, philosophical, and political evolution. By analyzing the arc from Petrine-era alchemical statecraft to the techno-theurgical aspirations of Russian Cosmism and the esoteric vis…
The Avant-Garde Innovation and Free Improvisation in Soviet Music
This Special Issue of ARTS allocates considerable scholarly and analytical attention to the intricate exploration of performative traditions of experimentation within the Russian and Soviet milieus [...]
Russian Formalism and Modernist Formalesque
The semiotic, particularly linguistic, essence of Futurism arguably laid the foundation for the early theories of Russian Formalism. Viktor Shklovsky, drawing inspiration from Futurist works, introduced the intriguing concept of the resurrection of the word to establish the theory of creative estrangement. Within Russian Modernism and Avant-Garde, exemplified by Symbolism and Futurism, a noteworthy development was establishing a dynamic interacti…
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