Nariman Skakov
Biographic Data
| ID | 1196791 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nariman Skakov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nariman |
| FAMILY NAME | Skakov |
| SIGNATURE | SKAKOV N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Stanford University. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Typographomania: On Prigov's Typewritten Experiments
This article examines Dmitrii A. Prigov's cycle “Appeals to Citizens” (1985–1987). The first section of the essay, “Message,” explores the discursive attack on the verbiage of the Soviet ideological apparatus. Hundreds of appeals to the Soviet constituency–framed, or rather camouflaged, by the notion of New Sincerity–constituted a desperate democratic cry. This cry is, by and large, as incomprehensible and empty as most cries are: the semantic ve…
Prigov as a Challenge
Introduction: Andrei Platonov, an Engineer of the Human Soul
In this essay I explore how Soviet policymakers, biologists, and writers negotiated the borderline dividing the human and animal domains and conceptualized the animal world for ideological purposes. I link the classic Soviet clash between stikhiinost' (spontaneity) and soznatel'nost' (consciousness) with biological experiments of the 1920s that were set to deconstruct the human-animal hierarchy and to create a vision of "classless" biology. I sho…
Soul Incorporated
In this essay I explore how Soviet policymakers, biologists, and writers negotiated the borderline dividing the human and animal domains and conceptualized the animal world for ideological purposes. I link the classic Soviet clash betweenstikhiinost'(spontaneity) andsoznatel'nost'(consciousness) with biological experiments of the 1920s that were set to deconstruct the human-animal hierarchy and to create a vision of "classless" biology. I show wh…
Introduction: Andrei Platonov, an Engineer of the Human Soul
In this essay I explore how Soviet policymakers, biologists, and writers negotiated the borderline dividing the human and animal domains and conceptualized the animal world for ideological purposes. I link the classic Soviet clash between stikhiinost' (spontaneity) and soznatel'nost' (consciousness) with biological experiments of the 1920s that were set to deconstruct the human-animal hierarchy and to create a vision of "classless" biology. I sho…
Introduction: Andrei Platonov, an Engineer of the Human Soul
In this essay I explore how Soviet policymakers, biologists, and writers negotiated the borderline dividing the human and animal domains and conceptualized the animal world for ideological purposes. I link the classic Soviet clash between stikhiinost' (spontaneity) and soznatel'nost' (consciousness) with biological experiments of the 1920s that were set to deconstruct the human-animal hierarchy and to create a vision of "classless" biology. I sho…
Soul Incorporated
In this essay I explore how Soviet policymakers, biologists, and writers negotiated the borderline dividing the human and animal domains and conceptualized the animal world for ideological purposes. I link the classic Soviet clash betweenstikhiinost'(spontaneity) andsoznatel'nost'(consciousness) with biological experiments of the 1920s that were set to deconstruct the human-animal hierarchy and to create a vision of "classless" biology. I show wh…
Typographomania: On Prigov's Typewritten Experiments
This article examines Dmitrii A. Prigov's cycle “Appeals to Citizens” (1985–1987). The first section of the essay, “Message,” explores the discursive attack on the verbiage of the Soviet ideological apparatus. Hundreds of appeals to the Soviet constituency–framed, or rather camouflaged, by the notion of New Sincerity–constituted a desperate democratic cry. This cry is, by and large, as incomprehensible and empty as most cries are: the semantic ve…
Prigov as a Challenge
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