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Special issue of “Filosofia” on pop-culture and politics with a contribution by Matthias Schwartz

Dynamics / Popular Culture / Publication / TV-Series / Ukraine / Russia

The special issue of the “Filosofia-Philosophy” journal on popular culture and politics with a contribution by team member Matthias Schwartz “In a Lad’s World. A Popular TV Series and Social Media in the Shadow of the Russo-Ukrainian War”

 

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The special issue of “Filosofia”, dedicated to the memory of Ivaylo Ditchev (1955–2023), professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Sofia, Department of History and Theory of Culture.

Table of contents

Daniela Koleva, The Art of Challenging: Re-Reading and Remembering

Anna Krasteva, Citizens vs. Elites. Symbolic Battles over the Uses of Political Crises in Bulgaria

Svetla Koleva, Rethinking Populism with Pierre Rosanvallon

Ralitsa Kovacheva, Populist Narratives about The EU in the 2024 European Election Campaign in Bulgaria

Andreana Eftimova, Styles of Political Populism: Plain Languages for Ordinary People

Diana Petkova, Populism in Public Communication – From Fragmentation to Radicalization in Times of Crises. The Case of Bulgaria

Silvia Petrova, Trolling as Political Discourse

Nelly Ognyanova, The Wild West of Digital Journalism

Vyara Angelova, Bulgaria’s Law on Professional Journalists of 1941: Effect and After-Effects

Matthias Schwartz, In a Lad’s World. A Popular TV Series and Social Media in the Shadow of the Russo-Ukrainian War

Abstract: The essay deals with the enormous success of the Russian television series The Boy’s Word. Blood on the Asphalt (Slovo patsana. Krov’ na asfalte, 2023), directed by Zhora Kryzhovnikov, on both sides of the trenches during the Russo-Ukrainian war. It discusses the role of social media and the public reception in Ukraine and Russia. In particular, the way the series depicts the so-called ‘Kazan phenomenon’, when the Tatar capital was shocked by criminal youth gangs in the late Soviet Union, makes it attractive and topical in the current situation. By analyzing this, the essay also attempts to gain a better understanding of how popular cultural products take up and process social problems and conflicts in a complex way.

Ventsislav Dimov, On Hip-Hop Music as Pop-Politics: A Look at the Poetics in Trajectories of Content and Form

Zhana Popova, Invisible Professional TV Watchers under Surveillance

Niya Neykova, The Acceleration of Intimacy. Representations of Love, Sexuality and Relationships in Virtual Reality

Rosalina Todorova, Green Acts: Global Politics vs Local Crises (A Case Study in Two Bulgarian Villages)

Mila Stancheva, Polit-Pop Sustainability: Policies, Businesses, and Media Heroes for a ‘Green’ Lifestyle

 

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