Cheburashka, or the Metaphysics of Disintegration

The infantilization of a civilization

Alexander Dugin on Cheburashka as a symptom of late-Soviet infantilism and the degeneration of heroic archetypes.

The Hermeneutics of Irony and the Erosion of Cultural Codes

The phenomenology of humor is such that any attempt to explicate a joke—to explain exactly where one is supposed to laugh or which ironic tropes have been employed—instantly kills the…