Serguei Alex Oushakine
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 93525 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Serguei Alex Oushakine |
| PRENOMES | Serguei Alex |
| SOBRENOME | Oushakine |
| ASSINATURA | OUSHAKINE S A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Princeton University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 234 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Thingful Time
This study examines how early Soviet culture sought to render time perceptible, governable, and politically productive by translating Futurist “chrontology” into socialist “chronization.” Taking Aleksandr Kusikov’s 1922 polemic on the Berlin journal Veshch (Thing)—edited by Ilya Ehrenburg and El Lissitzky—as its point of departure, it reconstructs a “third-way” Futurism shaped by postrevolutionary transit and exile, in which anticipatory futurity…
Decentering Formalism
While the literary theory known as Russian Formalism has been around for more than a century, its intellectual advancement was neither straightforward nor quick.Formalist approaches and ideas were developed at the outset primarily by young intellectuals of the 1910s and 1920s who belonged to two scholarly institutions: the Society for the Study of Poetic Language (OPOYAZ), led by Viktor Shklovsky, and the Moscow Linguistic Circle (MLC), led by Ro…
Rereading Russian Formalism at the End of the Soviet Union
This article draws attention to a curious paradox in the history of Russian Formalism: Yuri Tynianov, one of the most imaginative theorists of the early Soviet period, has been consistently marginalized, overlooked, and ignored in both Russophone and Anglophone scholarship. Despite numerous attempts to revive Tynianov's legacy, his works continue to alienate scholars of literary theory and history. By exploring early volumes of The Tynianov Colle…
Specters of a Marxist
Let's Sharpen Our Optic Nerves
Trans‐Formations
Shock Therapy
Reviewed by: Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity, and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia by Tomas Matza Serguei Alex Oushakine Tomas Matza, Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity, and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. 328 pp. Tomas Matza's first monograph is an impressive close-up portrayal of psychotherapeutic networks and institutions that took shape after the collapse of the Soviet Union in St. Petersburg,…
Presence Without Identification
This article explores photographic works produced by key members of the Minsk School of Photography before and after the collapse of the USSR in the 1980s and 1990s. Mostly reworking found images from the Soviet past, these artists employed the visual language of that period to disassociate themselves from Soviet practices of photographic recording. Appropriating conventions of the portrait genre, the Minsk photographers used them to create a str…
How to Grow out of Nothing
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 unleashed a new wave of decolonization, and throughout the 1990s, the newly independent states spent a lot of time and effort articulating their visions of sovereignty. Unlike neighboring Lithuania, which could turn its brief experience of interwar independence into a paradigmatic model of the postcolonial and postsocialist state, Belarus had to produce its narratives of political independence from scratch…
Sotzromantizm and Its Theaters of Life
The introduction offers the notion of Sotzromantizm (socialist romanticism) as a way of framing critical engagements with the actually existing socialism of the 1950s–1980s. Large-scale historicizing projects relied on the romantic re-appropriation of space to generate versions of identity, social communities, spiritual values, and relations to the past that significantly differed from the rationalistic canons of the perfectly planned socialist s…
The Patriotism of Despair
The sudden dissolution of the Soviet Union altered the routines, norms, celebrations, and shared understandings that had shaped the lives of Russians for generations. It also meant an end to the state-sponsored, nonmonetary support that most residents had lived with all their lives. How did Russians make sense of these historic transformations? Serguei Alex. Oushakine offers a compelling look at postsocialist life in Russia.In Barnaul, a major in…
Translating Communism for Children
Using children's picture books published in early Soviet Russia as its main visual and textual source, this essay explores the process of translation through which artists and writers adopted and adapted key Marxist ideas for illiterate or semiliterate audiences
Against the Cult of Things
Following an emerging trend in the ethnography of socialist things, this article seeks to move beyond the powerful paradigms of "the culture of shortage" and "the economy of scarcity" that have been defining the studies of socialist consumption for the last few decades. By displacing "scarcity" as the primary explanatory lens on Soviet consumption, we can open up some analytical and ethnographic room for processes, practices, concepts, or paradig…
Red Laughter
Following closely the public debates about the nature and purpose of distinctively Soviet laughter and comedy in the 1920-1950s, this essay distills rationales used by producers of Stalinist culture for determining a socially acceptable discursive place for the comic in Soviet Russia. As the essay demonstrates, these debates reveal a complicated argumentative strategy devised by the Soviet political and cultural authorities in order to reclaim, a…
Laughter under Socialism
What do we need, comrades? We need the broad masses laughing as much as possible. We need laughter so badly, it is enough to make you weep. . . . We need laughter. Thoughtful, serious laughter without the slightest grin.Nikolai Erdman and Vladimir Mass,A Meeting about Laughter, 1933Laughter can be different. Yet, such terms as "ours" [nash] and "theirs" [ne nash]-trite as they are-have no difficulty in finding dieir proper coun-terparts. . . . "O…
Totality Decomposed
The Sacred Book of the Werewolfby Viktor Pelevin
Introduction
Stop the Invasion! Money, Patriotism, and Conspiracy in Russia
Based on a set of interviews and materials collected in Barnaul (Siberia) in 2001-2005, this article explores the discursive mechanisms through which new social realities and new social identities are imagined, negotiated, and internalized in postsocialist Russia. By analyzing popular conspiracy narratives about universal lying, corruption, and manipulation, the article draws attention to the increasing prominence of images and ideas of an enclos…
Vitality rediscovered
We're nostalgic but we're not crazy
The Politics of Pity
In this article, I explore how a group of women in a distant Russian province learned to live in the state of grief by creating a space for the traumatic experience in their daily order of things, their personal narratives, and public landscape. Using materials from my fieldwork in Siberia in 2001-03, I demonstrate how the Altai Regional Committee of the Soldiers' Mothers domesticated and privatized losses of their sons, which were caused by the …
The Flexible and the Pliant
In the texts of prominent Soviet figures such as writer Maxim Gorky, the agrobiologist Trofim Lysenko, and the educator Anton Makarenko, the uncertainty of social norms in early Soviet society became equated with an instability of environment in general and nature in particular. A powerful and vivid rhetoric of a "second nature," to use Gorky's phrase, overcame the absence of clearly articulated models for subjectivity. A series of disciplining r…
Crimes of Substitution
Research Article| September 01 2003 Crimes of Substitution: Detection in Late Soviet Society Serguei Alex Oushakine Serguei Alex Oushakine Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2003) 15 (3): 426–452. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-15-3-426 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Serguei Alex Oushakine; Crimes of Substitution: Detection in Late Soviet S…
The Terrifying Mimicry of Samizdat
Research Article| May 01 2001 The Terrifying Mimicry of Samizdat Serguei Alex. Oushakine Serguei Alex. Oushakine Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2001) 13 (2): 191-214. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-13-2-191 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Serguei Alex. Oushakine; The Terrifying Mimicry of Samizdat. Public Culture 1 May 2001; 13 (2): 191-…
The Patriotism of Despair
The sudden dissolution of the Soviet Union altered the routines, norms, celebrations, and shared understandings that had shaped the lives of Russians for generations. It also meant an end to the state-sponsored, nonmonetary support that most residents had lived with all their lives. How did Russians make sense of these historic transformations? Serguei Alex. Oushakine offers a compelling look at postsocialist life in Russia.In Barnaul, a major in…
The Terrifying Mimicry of Samizdat
Research Article| May 01 2001 The Terrifying Mimicry of Samizdat Serguei Alex. Oushakine Serguei Alex. Oushakine Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2001) 13 (2): 191-214. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-13-2-191 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Serguei Alex. Oushakine; The Terrifying Mimicry of Samizdat. Public Culture 1 May 2001; 13 (2): 191-…
We're nostalgic but we're not crazy
The Quantity of Style
This article analyses 178 essays written in April 1997, in which Siberian students (15-22-year-olds) described their understandings of Soviet and post-Soviet realities. The main change between the two regimes is perceived in these essays as the change in patterns of consumption. Moreover, as the essays indicate, the new Russian style of consumption, usually associated with the style of the new rich classes in Russia, finds its fullest representat…
In the State of Post-Soviet Aphasia
The Flexible and the Pliant
In the texts of prominent Soviet figures such as writer Maxim Gorky, the agrobiologist Trofim Lysenko, and the educator Anton Makarenko, the uncertainty of social norms in early Soviet society became equated with an instability of environment in general and nature in particular. A powerful and vivid rhetoric of a "second nature," to use Gorky's phrase, overcame the absence of clearly articulated models for subjectivity. A series of disciplining r…
The Politics of Pity
In this article, I explore how a group of women in a distant Russian province learned to live in the state of grief by creating a space for the traumatic experience in their daily order of things, their personal narratives, and public landscape. Using materials from my fieldwork in Siberia in 2001-03, I demonstrate how the Altai Regional Committee of the Soldiers' Mothers domesticated and privatized losses of their sons, which were caused by the …
Red Laughter
Following closely the public debates about the nature and purpose of distinctively Soviet laughter and comedy in the 1920-1950s, this essay distills rationales used by producers of Stalinist culture for determining a socially acceptable discursive place for the comic in Soviet Russia. As the essay demonstrates, these debates reveal a complicated argumentative strategy devised by the Soviet political and cultural authorities in order to reclaim, a…
Against the Cult of Things
Following an emerging trend in the ethnography of socialist things, this article seeks to move beyond the powerful paradigms of "the culture of shortage" and "the economy of scarcity" that have been defining the studies of socialist consumption for the last few decades. By displacing "scarcity" as the primary explanatory lens on Soviet consumption, we can open up some analytical and ethnographic room for processes, practices, concepts, or paradig…
Stop the Invasion! Money, Patriotism, and Conspiracy in Russia
Based on a set of interviews and materials collected in Barnaul (Siberia) in 2001-2005, this article explores the discursive mechanisms through which new social realities and new social identities are imagined, negotiated, and internalized in postsocialist Russia. By analyzing popular conspiracy narratives about universal lying, corruption, and manipulation, the article draws attention to the increasing prominence of images and ideas of an enclos…
Presence Without Identification
This article explores photographic works produced by key members of the Minsk School of Photography before and after the collapse of the USSR in the 1980s and 1990s. Mostly reworking found images from the Soviet past, these artists employed the visual language of that period to disassociate themselves from Soviet practices of photographic recording. Appropriating conventions of the portrait genre, the Minsk photographers used them to create a str…
Translating Communism for Children
Using children's picture books published in early Soviet Russia as its main visual and textual source, this essay explores the process of translation through which artists and writers adopted and adapted key Marxist ideas for illiterate or semiliterate audiences
Laughter under Socialism
What do we need, comrades? We need the broad masses laughing as much as possible. We need laughter so badly, it is enough to make you weep. . . . We need laughter. Thoughtful, serious laughter without the slightest grin.Nikolai Erdman and Vladimir Mass,A Meeting about Laughter, 1933Laughter can be different. Yet, such terms as "ours" [nash] and "theirs" [ne nash]-trite as they are-have no difficulty in finding dieir proper coun-terparts. . . . "O…
Totality Decomposed
Crimes of Substitution
Research Article| September 01 2003 Crimes of Substitution: Detection in Late Soviet Society Serguei Alex Oushakine Serguei Alex Oushakine Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2003) 15 (3): 426–452. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-15-3-426 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Serguei Alex Oushakine; Crimes of Substitution: Detection in Late Soviet S…
The Fatal Splitting. Symbolizing Anxiety in Post-Soviet Russia
Based on written interviews with young people collected in 1997-1999 in Barnaul (Siberia), this article explores structural and rhetorical patterns employed in the young people's descriptions of the New Russian woman, usually associated with a small group of rich and successful people in Russia ('New Russians'). As the essay demonstrates, the image of the New Russian woman can be seen not only as a symbolic representation of new market-driven rel…
Introduction
Vitality rediscovered
In the State of Post-Soviet Aphasia
The Quantity of Style
This article analyses 178 essays written in April 1997, in which Siberian students (15-22-year-olds) described their understandings of Soviet and post-Soviet realities. The main change between the two regimes is perceived in these essays as the change in patterns of consumption. Moreover, as the essays indicate, the new Russian style of consumption, usually associated with the style of the new rich classes in Russia, finds its fullest representat…
The Terrifying Mimicry of Samizdat
Research Article| May 01 2001 The Terrifying Mimicry of Samizdat Serguei Alex. Oushakine Serguei Alex. Oushakine Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2001) 13 (2): 191-214. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-13-2-191 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Serguei Alex. Oushakine; The Terrifying Mimicry of Samizdat. Public Culture 1 May 2001; 13 (2): 191-…
The Fatal Splitting. Symbolizing Anxiety in Post-Soviet Russia
Based on written interviews with young people collected in 1997-1999 in Barnaul (Siberia), this article explores structural and rhetorical patterns employed in the young people's descriptions of the New Russian woman, usually associated with a small group of rich and successful people in Russia ('New Russians'). As the essay demonstrates, the image of the New Russian woman can be seen not only as a symbolic representation of new market-driven rel…
Crimes of Substitution
Research Article| September 01 2003 Crimes of Substitution: Detection in Late Soviet Society Serguei Alex Oushakine Serguei Alex Oushakine Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2003) 15 (3): 426–452. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-15-3-426 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Serguei Alex Oushakine; Crimes of Substitution: Detection in Late Soviet S…
The Flexible and the Pliant
In the texts of prominent Soviet figures such as writer Maxim Gorky, the agrobiologist Trofim Lysenko, and the educator Anton Makarenko, the uncertainty of social norms in early Soviet society became equated with an instability of environment in general and nature in particular. A powerful and vivid rhetoric of a "second nature," to use Gorky's phrase, overcame the absence of clearly articulated models for subjectivity. A series of disciplining r…
The Politics of Pity
In this article, I explore how a group of women in a distant Russian province learned to live in the state of grief by creating a space for the traumatic experience in their daily order of things, their personal narratives, and public landscape. Using materials from my fieldwork in Siberia in 2001-03, I demonstrate how the Altai Regional Committee of the Soldiers' Mothers domesticated and privatized losses of their sons, which were caused by the …
Vitality rediscovered
We're nostalgic but we're not crazy
Introduction
Stop the Invasion! Money, Patriotism, and Conspiracy in Russia
Based on a set of interviews and materials collected in Barnaul (Siberia) in 2001-2005, this article explores the discursive mechanisms through which new social realities and new social identities are imagined, negotiated, and internalized in postsocialist Russia. By analyzing popular conspiracy narratives about universal lying, corruption, and manipulation, the article draws attention to the increasing prominence of images and ideas of an enclos…
Totality Decomposed
The Sacred Book of the Werewolfby Viktor Pelevin
Laughter under Socialism
What do we need, comrades? We need the broad masses laughing as much as possible. We need laughter so badly, it is enough to make you weep. . . . We need laughter. Thoughtful, serious laughter without the slightest grin.Nikolai Erdman and Vladimir Mass,A Meeting about Laughter, 1933Laughter can be different. Yet, such terms as "ours" [nash] and "theirs" [ne nash]-trite as they are-have no difficulty in finding dieir proper coun-terparts. . . . "O…
Red Laughter
Following closely the public debates about the nature and purpose of distinctively Soviet laughter and comedy in the 1920-1950s, this essay distills rationales used by producers of Stalinist culture for determining a socially acceptable discursive place for the comic in Soviet Russia. As the essay demonstrates, these debates reveal a complicated argumentative strategy devised by the Soviet political and cultural authorities in order to reclaim, a…
Against the Cult of Things
Following an emerging trend in the ethnography of socialist things, this article seeks to move beyond the powerful paradigms of "the culture of shortage" and "the economy of scarcity" that have been defining the studies of socialist consumption for the last few decades. By displacing "scarcity" as the primary explanatory lens on Soviet consumption, we can open up some analytical and ethnographic room for processes, practices, concepts, or paradig…
The Patriotism of Despair
The sudden dissolution of the Soviet Union altered the routines, norms, celebrations, and shared understandings that had shaped the lives of Russians for generations. It also meant an end to the state-sponsored, nonmonetary support that most residents had lived with all their lives. How did Russians make sense of these historic transformations? Serguei Alex. Oushakine offers a compelling look at postsocialist life in Russia.In Barnaul, a major in…
Translating Communism for Children
Using children's picture books published in early Soviet Russia as its main visual and textual source, this essay explores the process of translation through which artists and writers adopted and adapted key Marxist ideas for illiterate or semiliterate audiences
How to Grow out of Nothing
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 unleashed a new wave of decolonization, and throughout the 1990s, the newly independent states spent a lot of time and effort articulating their visions of sovereignty. Unlike neighboring Lithuania, which could turn its brief experience of interwar independence into a paradigmatic model of the postcolonial and postsocialist state, Belarus had to produce its narratives of political independence from scratch…
Sotzromantizm and Its Theaters of Life
The introduction offers the notion of Sotzromantizm (socialist romanticism) as a way of framing critical engagements with the actually existing socialism of the 1950s–1980s. Large-scale historicizing projects relied on the romantic re-appropriation of space to generate versions of identity, social communities, spiritual values, and relations to the past that significantly differed from the rationalistic canons of the perfectly planned socialist s…
Presence Without Identification
This article explores photographic works produced by key members of the Minsk School of Photography before and after the collapse of the USSR in the 1980s and 1990s. Mostly reworking found images from the Soviet past, these artists employed the visual language of that period to disassociate themselves from Soviet practices of photographic recording. Appropriating conventions of the portrait genre, the Minsk photographers used them to create a str…
Shock Therapy
Reviewed by: Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity, and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia by Tomas Matza Serguei Alex Oushakine Tomas Matza, Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity, and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. 328 pp. Tomas Matza's first monograph is an impressive close-up portrayal of psychotherapeutic networks and institutions that took shape after the collapse of the Soviet Union in St. Petersburg,…
Trans‐Formations
Let's Sharpen Our Optic Nerves
Specters of a Marxist
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