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The New Literary Observer was launched in 1992 as the first post-Soviet journal devoted to literature. Since its inception, the journal has become the leading Russian interdisciplinary publication dedicated to Russian culture in a global context.
The task of NLO is to study and elucidate contemporary culture, as well as to promote Russian cultural theory in the international intellectual community.
The journal includes material of the following nature:
The task of NLO is to study and elucidate contemporary culture, as well as to promote Russian cultural theory in the international intellectual community.
The journal includes material of the following nature:
- articles on the problems, or the history, of the liberal arts and sciences;
- articles devoted to various aspects of the cultural history of Russia and Western Europe;
- unique archive documents (literary texts, letters, memoirs);
- articles, reviews, interviews and essays on issues of contemporary literature;
- thorough bibliographies of works of fiction and the liberal arts and sciences;
- chronicles of scientific and creative life.
contents:
«AFFECTIVE TURN»: CULTURE AND SENSUOUS EXPERIENCE
LACUNAE
THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF AFFECT
- Bernhard Waldenfels. Attention as Response to the Alien. Attention in the Perspective of Responsive Phenomenology / translated from English by Arseny Nikonov
- Sara Ahmed. Affective Economies / translated from English by Elizaveta Kheresh
- Oleg Aronson, Artemii Magun, Oksana Timofeeva, Nina Savchenkova, Alla Mitrofanova. Affect and culture: a philosopher’s perspective. Survey
SENSUOUS EXPERIENCE AND THE OVERCOMING OF NORMATIVITY
- Alexandra Volodina. Non-normative Temporality: Affect, Writing, and Experience
- Mariia Stenina, Sofia Porfiryeva. «Behold Me, Against Myself»: Toward a Phenomenology of Epistemic Powerlessness
- Elena Kostyleva. Labor and Orgy: Freud, Bataille, Simone Weil
- Kate Khan. Jealousy as Rivalry: Phenomenology of Jealousy Crises
THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF SENTIMENTALISM
(UN)FEELING AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
- Helen Petrovsky. The Horror of the West: Conrad, Coppola, Lacoue-Labarthe
- Boris Podoroga. The Machine Perception: Phenomenology of Estrangement in Michael Snow’s film «La Région Centrale»
- Nikolai Nakhshunov. Loveless: A Phenomenology of Indifference in the Public Sphere
- Igor Gulin, Danila Davydov, Anna Glazova, Vladimir Aristov, Anna Rodionova, Stanislav Snytko. Affect and culture: a writer’s perspective. Survey
POETOLOGICAL STUDIES
- Alena Eremenko. Two Cases of «Literary Climatology»: Missing Places in the Texts of Shamshad Abdullaev and Andrei Levkin
- Natalia Ignatieva. Musical Genres of Elizaveta Mnatsakanova’s Poetry: Synthesis of Verbal and Musical Rhythms
- Ilya Morozov. «Dynts Rta»: The Birth of Russian-Language Blackout Poetry from the Spirit of Irfaerism
BIBLIOGRAPHY. FEELINGS, EMOTIONS, AFFECTS
- Fedor Nikolai. Cultural History and Anthropology of Feelings: Two Belated Manifestos (Review of: Howes D. The Sensory Studies Manifesto: Tracking the Sensorial Revolution in the Arts and Human Sciences. Toronto; Buffalo; London, 2022; Smith M.M. A Sensory History Manifesto. University Park, 2021)
- Maksim Kotelnikov. Instruments and Structures of Live: Two Socio- logies of Romantic Relations (Review of: Illouz E. Unloving: A Socio- logy of Negative Relations. Moscow, 2024)
- Karina Levitina. Another time about love and other psychological disorders (Review of: Engdahl E. Depressive Love: A Social Pathology. London; New York, 2018)
- Gleb Kolomiets. A Philosophical Ode to Joy (Review of: Protevi J. Regimes of Violence: Toward a Political Anthropology. Minneapolis; London, 2025)
- Zemfira Salamova. Affect in the Study of Digital Practices (Review of: Affective Formation of Publics: Places, Networks, and Media. London; New York, 2024; Affect in Fandom: Fan Creators and Productivity. Amsterdam, 2025)
- Nadezhda Krylova. «Strange Forms» in New Cinema Theory (Review of: Anger J. Towards a Film Theory from Below: Archival Film and the Aesthetics of the Crack-up. New York, 2024)
- Mikhail Dmitriev. Medieval Yaroslavl: A City or...a Hierotopic Project? Notes on D.F. Poloznev’s Book (Review of: Poloznev D. Yaroslavl: Who Founded the City and When? Мoscow, 2024)
- Aleksei Kozlov. Crime without punishment (Review of: Bulakhova M. Genesis of Russian Criminal Prose, 1860–1890. Tartu, 2025)
- Gennady Zharnikov, Elena Pogorelskaya. Babel in Context (Review of Zikher E. «A Jew on Horseback»: The Cultural-Aesthetic Context of Isaac Babel. St. Petersburg, 2024)
- Anna Stogova. The Enstrangement of the Middle Ages (Review of: Karras R.M. Sex in the Middle Ages. Мoscow, 2024)
- Galina Zalomkina. Figment in the Thick of Culture (Review of: Khoruzhenko T. Cultural Myths in Contemporary Fantasy: A Monograph. Мoscow; Ekaterinburg, 2025)
NLO BOOKS
Vladimir Buldakov. The Passions of Revolution The Emotional Elements of 1917. — Мoscow: New Literary Observer, 2024. — 432 pp. — (What is Russia).
Vladislav Aksenov. Rumors, Images, Emotions. Russian Mass Feelings During War and Revolutions (1914–1918). — Мoscow: New Literary Observer, 2020. — 992 pp.
CHRONICLE OF SCHOLARLY LIFE
- Gleb Navilnikov. Overview of the Conference «Cinephenomnology of perception» (HSE University x Russian State University for the Humanities, October 24–26, 2024)
- Marina Aristova. Roundtable «States of Shock: Disruptive Media in the Hyper-Industrial Epoch» (University of Lille, June 5, 2025).
- Marina Aristova. Symposium «Revolutionary Love» (Wiener Festwochen, June 20–21)
- Olga Borisova. Conference «Scary Readings» (Tver State University, October 30 — November 1, 2024)