CIRCLES OF PERMANENT MODERNITY: A BRIEF CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE CONCEPT

• Published in: Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Filosofiya, sotsiologiya, politologiya no. 83; pp. 59 - 75
• Main Author: Maltsev, Yaroslav V.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2025
• ISSN: 1998-863X; 2311-2395
• DOI: 10.17223/1998863X/83/7

In the article offered to the reader’s attention, in the most concise form, the essence of the author’s concept of permanent modernity is outlined in the ratio of its main components, which can be likened to circles: contiguous planes built into each other, within the boundaries of which one or another action unfolds, ultimately affecting the overall structure. Like circles on water, modernity is a relation of circles diverging in breadth. At the same time, each circle is in a situation of existential dialogue with another and affects the whole. Ultimately, this contact (dialogue) and the expansion of circles ensure the dynamics of culture, its emergence and transformation. The aim of the article is to show how the cultural matrix (and its appearance) changes and to what extent this change is ontologically and ontically conditioned. However, within culture, under the influence of a person who knows, acts, engages in creativity, the development of culture takes place in the sphere of the political and in the sphere of culture itself as a part of the public sphere. In the political (politics is understood here from the perspective of Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière, Chantal Mouffe as a struggle for the birth of a new order on the site of everyday life), the subject creates an idea and enters into a dialogue with other subjects, and also (voluntarily or involuntarily) accumulates a set that participates in the struggle to establish the unique utopia proposed by the subject as a universal order. The political field is the clash of multitudes for the project of the future. Culture itself is part of the civilization–culture–modern–postmodern quartet, the relationship of which is revealed in more detail in the text of the work.