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culture. Such a lack of immunity leads to total confusion of cultures, and
this exotic mixture has a knowledge of only universal, unified violence
that becomes de(con)structive. In the final parts of the exposition the
de(con)struction of the traditional mediating structures is described. The
survey begins with the typology of the forms of cultural unity. The particular
attention is paid to the principle of self-similarity. This idea is analyzed
within the scope of the intellectual history that ranges from the classical
theories of the so-called «divine proportion» to the modern concept of
the fractal.
The principle of self-similarity is correlated with the model of the
monistic (quasi-dualistic) totality that leads to «centrism». It is accentuated
that the philosophical notion of alienation corresponds only to this model
of culture. In this model another Self does not exist, since the primary
reduction of the female sex to the non-male one abolishes the slightest
manifestations of the real difference between the unlike poles of the sexual
duality. So, another Self turns into the subject’s irrecognizable double. That
is why the alienation means the redoubling or bifurcation of a single entity,
and it becomes possible only in case of the monistic (quasi-dualistic) model
of the system.
The supplantation of the traditional form of the principle of self-
similarity is considered to be the consequence of the de(con)structon of all
the «centrisms». The domination of the mysticism and the mystical patterns
of thinking evinces the expansion of the «decentration». This process is
analyzed in the context of the notion of phallogocentrism. The thesis of the
real de(con)struction of the center of culture (Phallus, Logos) proved
false. As a matter of fact, only designatum is changed. Moreover, the inversion
of «center» and «margins» is on hand. Just this inversion becomes the nutrient
medium of a new kind of cynicism.
The cynicism is the aspect of «decentration», and it is construed as
the concomitant effect of the new situation in the sphere of ideology.
Modern cynicism does not repeat the old cynical patterns, but regards the
total power of the ideological framework as the starting point of some
non-typical models of adaptation and survival. The specters of culture
have in store many crafty traps for the cynical mind, and it is really
absurdly entrapped just because of its arrogance which forces him to deny
the very existence of the day-specters within the limits of culture. The
exposition is crowned with the gentle hints on the problem of the virtual
reality, but the problem itself is not discussed in order to protect the
purity of the genre that is incompatible with the traumatic perception of
modern fractal culture.