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PHENOMENON AS A VISUAL CONCEPT IN ANTHROPOLOGY OF CULTURE (FROM CLASSICAL PATTERNS TO NONCLASSICAL EXPERIENCE) // ΠΡΑΞΗMΑ. Journal of Visual Semiotics. 2015. Issue 1 (3). P. 21-28

The paper raises the problem of the return to basic constructs and patterns of thinking that have been developed at the time in the classical philosophy from ancient authors. These schemes and implementation of constructs suggested phenomenological shift, that is, opening the bottom of things, the whole world, the formation of such vision, which would allow to see the world as it is. In the nonclassical case the phenomenon transformed forms raises the problem of inaccessibility of the world as it is and the need to overcome this secrecy. The idea of visualization as a phenomenological shift and body building vision are introduced. The author provides examples from the history of culture, showing different views of the phenomenon in different authors. The author introduces the concept of visualization and phenomenological shift in the broader context antropopractice, architectonic construction of personality.

Keywords: phenomenon, visualization, phenomenological shift, architectonics of personality, phenomenon of personality, organon of personality

VISUAL JOURNEY AS A METHOD. GENESIS // ΠΡΑΞΗMΑ. Journal of Visual Semiotics. 2017. Issue 1 (11). P. 9-26

The paper describes the genesis of idea of the way as a method of cognition. The author admits that the idea of the way as a method of knowledge of the world and oneself in this world was the first in the history of culture. Gradually, as civilization developed, the method of knowledge as conquest became increasingly dominant, and the study of the world began to be built on the principle of fixation and extraction of the object of knowledge. In both cases, visualization and visual experience play a key role. The author shows that vision plays a different role in different paradigms of knowledge. In the method of capturing the vision becomes a tool of capture. In the method the way the vision becomes a means of seeing the sense of things and mark man’s place in the world.

Keywords: method, way, visual journey, capture

IMAGE OF THE CITY: FROM MAP TO CARTOID // ΠΡΑΞΗMΑ. Journal of Visual Semiotics. 2017. Issue 4 (14). P. 28-48

The article describes the situation of changing perceptions of the human habitat by the example of city images and city plans. It is shown that the image of an ideal utopia city is inferior to the image of the city as a way of life and habitat. As a result, there is a transition from attempts to accurately image and seize the city and space in maps and schemes that metrically preserve the image object on a scale, to describing the city and space in the idea of the cartoid. The cardoid here is understood as a sign-symbolic image of the mode of action when a person masters space. The author shows that the cartoid as an idea and method naturally arose in the situation of the need to describe a person’s navigation, if necessary, to routing them their progress and mastering the space. The article gives examples of maps and cartoids of specific cities and territories.

Keywords: city, city image, city anthropology, city space, map, cartoid, navigation, region

ANTHROPOID CARTOID AS A MEANS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL NAVIGATION // ΠΡΑΞΗMΑ. Journal of Visual Semiotics. 2018. Issue 1 (15). P. 34-48

The article gives a conceptual distinction between the doctrinal and navigational methods used in anthropology. The first involves the desire for the essential and objective determinations of man. The second presupposes alignment of orientation and navigation practices with the aim of finding a event place for people in being. The author analyzes the experience of using the concept of anthropological navigation introduced by the author in concrete visual and pedagogical practices. The description of the tool of anthropological navigation, anthropoid cartoid, and the way of working with it is given. A distinction is made between the geographical cartoid and the anthropoid cartoid. The author analyzes the experience of developing cartoids for their application to specific situations related to building personal life trajectories. The first lessons of this experience are described.

Keywords: anthropological navigation, anthropoid cartoid, geographic cartoid, resource map, place in being, trajectory of personal life, ontological topic of the self-determination

URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY: BETWEEN URBANISM AND EVERYDAY LIFE // ΠΡΑΞΗMΑ. Journal of Visual Semiotics. 2019. Issue 1 (19). P. 13-31

The work introduces a framework idea of the subject of urban anthropology on the basis of an analysis of the difference between classical urbanism and the so-called new urbanism of everyday life. Classical urbanism is associated with an attempt to describe and explain the city as a special reality, with an attempt to build a theory of the city and to present it in a certain stable construct. According to this construct, the city has a center, borders, periphery, sustainable models and ways of living. This idea comes from the model of an ancient city, which has its own sacral (temple) center, to which all roads led. The neourbanism of everyday life tries to retain in its presentation the fluidity of an everyday city in which objects and buildings are not important, but people living in it. The urbanism of everyday life tries to feel the city from within and not as an object, but as a space of residence and eventfulness. For such an understanding, another way of mastering urban space is suggested-the so-called flaneurism as a method. The article describes the specifics of flanking and the limitations of this method. In this paper we propose a flaneur tool, a cartoid other than a mental map. To compose the cartoid are the key points, the requirements for its compilation - a support, a landmark, a place, a boundary, a horizon.

Keywords: urbanism, everyday life, urban everyday life, urban anthropology, flaneur, mental map, cartoid, navigation

HUMAN DIMENSION OF CITY // ΠΡΑΞΗMΑ. Journal of Visual Semiotics. 2019. Issue 2 (20). P. 13-32

The article is devoted to one of the key problems of urban anthropology and urbanism, related to the theme of human dimensionality of the city. The author analyzes the concept of “human dimensionality”, discusses the introduction of this concept into science by the methodologist and philosopher of science M. K. Petrov. On the example of the genesis of the ancient city, the article analyzes three classes of criteria for the city’s human dimensionality: the city from the point of view of the sacred beginning that generates the phenomenon of the city; the city in terms of social measure and the birth of the ancient polis as a meeting of citizens (citizenship and the voice of a citizen as a measure of the city); and the city from the point of view of the physical, bodily space of the settling of the city. The article describes the phenomenon of the genesis of the city in the categories of urban planning and its first experience – Hippodamus’ City. In connection with the physical criterion of dimensionality, examples and practices of urban space exploration are discussed using various measures and dimensions related to the human body, starting with the ancient polis and ending with the modern experience of reviving the idea of the physicality of the city and such a character of city life as a pedestrian. The article discusses such measures as body, palm, span, foot, stage, step. The problem of the connection between the idea of human dimensionality and the idea of the dimensionality of being (by the example of Heidegger’s analysis of the Protagoras thesis about man as the measure of all things) is discussed. In conclusion, the author discusses the problem of the loss of human dimensionality in modern megacities and attempts to revive the dimensionality of a person in the city through a pedestrian figure (research and practice in urban pedestrian anthropology).

Keywords: measure, human dimensionality, city, city measure, urban anthropology, antique polis, Hippodamus’ City

PHILOSOPHER IN THE CITY: AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE PLACE Article 1. Mikhail Bakhtin // ΠΡΑΞΗMΑ. Journal of Visual Semiotics. 2019. Issue 3 (21). P. 43-61

A series of articles in which the author poses the problem of the connection between the life and the biography of the philosopher with the life and biography of the city begins with this work. Through the identification of event links between the biography of a particular philosopher’s person and the places in the cities in which his life took place, the author proposes to examine the problem of how the place’s autobiography is formed. The author considers the specifics of philosophical autobiographies through the prism of the biography of the city. The article proposes a working model for the reconstruction of the author’s habitat. The reconstruction scheme is in an attempt to restore the author’s habitat and events of his life by highlighting layers consisting of socalled “units” and “organizations”. Units of reconstruction are artifacts (things, objects, material objects, results of activity), signs (texts, symbolic structures), values and meanings, events and actions. Artifacts form such organization as urban infrastructures. Signs form a city text. Values and meanings form the memory of the city. Events and actions constitute everyday life in the city. Each author, as a result, creates his own trajectory of life, his autobiography, consisting of these units, which are then restored and reconstructed by researchers. Each specific biography of a particular philosopher will be considered in the language of the proposed construct. This article discusses the biography of M. M. Bakhtin. It is shown that the sources of Bakhtin’s biography (artifacts, texts, etc.) are very scarce. The texts are fragmentary and incomplete. Events and actions are hidden and difficult to recover. Values and meanings, of course, have to be reconstructed. As a result, Bakhtin, as an author, confirms with his biography his own thesis about the outsidedness and unfinalizability of the author’s thoughts and actions. The philosopher himself tried in every possible way to disappear from the geographical map of the territory of residence, forcing researchers to engage more in the interpretation and reconstruction of the author’s life than in analyzing the real facts of his life. At the same time, even the disappearing event point, which Bakhtin as an author is for subsequent researchers, clearly shows his discrepancy with himself and also the auto-reflective, event-related nature of the philosophers’ autobiography in principle.

Keywords: autobiography, philosophical autobiography, memory visualization, city, place, artifact, event, city text

PHILOSOPHER IN THE CITY: AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE PLACE. Article 2. Georgy Shchedrovitsky // ΠΡΑΞΗMΑ. Journal of Visual Semiotics. 2020. Issue 1 (23). P. 140-160

The article continues a series of works devoted to the study of the connection between the life of a philosopher, on the one hand, and his place of residence, on the other. The author shows how the “works and days” of a particular philosopher, in fact, through the events authored by the philosopher, form the biography of his habitats, which previously were little known. It is concluded that the biography and autobiography of the philosopher lies not only in his ideas and written works, but also in leaving event traces in the habitats, which then, after the departure of their carrier, begin to speak for him and tell his biography. In a previous article, the problem of the autobiography of a place was discussed by the author on the example of the life of M. M. Bakhtin. In this article, the author considers this topic on the example of the domestic philosopher and methodologist G. P. Shchedrovitsky. The article shows that G. P. Shchedrovitsky built his life and developed methodology as a mission, as a cultural task. Shchedrovitsky’s biography is distinguished by the fact that he built it as an extraterritorial trajectory, actually embodying the idea of personal navigation. On the material of personal testimonies and testimonies of other authors, as well as autobiographical texts of G. P. Shchedrovitsky, the author shows examples of such event traces that G. P. Shchedrovitsky left. It is shown that in different places previously unknown to the scientific world, pockets of thought and action were suddenly created, and these places became new intellectual centers.

Keywords: visual space, autobiography, philosophical autobiography, philosopher’s biography, city, place, event, evidence.