Čistka kultur? Seveda. Tako kot njihovo svinjanje

Abstract

Eden vodilnih ameriško-ruskih filozofov in kulturologov M. Epštejn je napisal zanimivo razpravo o pomembnosti (samo)čiščenja v naravi. Postavimo si vprašanje: je razmišljanje mogoče prenesti na kulturo? Za osnovo nam služi kratki manifest K. Maleviča Suprematistično zrcalo, saj pomeni odskočno desko za razmislek o ponovljivih procesih svinjanja/ omadeževanja in čiščenja v razvoju kulture. Za ponazorilo in utemeljitev povedanega sežemo k Malevičevim sodobnikom: k Vladimirju Vernadskemu in Dmitriju Čiževskemu. Oba sta razvila pomembno spoznanje: prvi o noosferi, drugi o cikličnih sinusoidnih kulturnih procesih.

One of the leading American-Russian philosophers and culturologists M. Epstein has written an interesting discussion about the importance of (self) cleaning in nature. We ask ourselves: can this idea be transferred to culture? As a starting point, we use the short manifest of K. Malevich The Suprematist Mirror, as it represents a stepping stone for the consideration of repeatable processes of polluting and cleaning in the development of culture. To illustrate the above, we recall Malevich’s contemporaries: Vladimir Vernadsky and Dmitry Chizhevsky. Both developed important insights: the first on the noosphere, the other on cyclic sinusoidal cultural processes.