Реакционная искренность

To what extent do media-specific communication modes colour the debate on Russian politics and/as postmodernism? Which affective norms dominate the emotional community among whose members Mark Lipovetsky observes a reactionary postmodern turn? This article argues that insights from media studies and emotion studies can help us to unpack the complex story of Russian reactionary postmodernism. To illustrate this point, the author zooms in on the concept of sincerity — a concept that sparked vivid attention among postmodern Russian writers, filmmakers, curators, and theoreticians — and the reactionary turn that we witness in post-Soviet sincerity rhetoric between the perestroika era and today.