
Russian metamodernism: the neo rave and cultural recycling of the 1990s
Maria Engström discusses the phenomenon of recycling of Soviet heritage in contemporary Russia

Alexander Gudkov and Russia’s queer turn in the 2020s
Maria Engström on the normalisation of Russian queer culture and the privatisation of transgressive aesthetics by the cultural mainstream

Little Big: Neo-camp and a new generation of Russian identity
Maria Engstrom on political visuality and camp aesthetics as a new phenomenon of Russian pop culture

Monetochka: The Manifesto of Metamodernism
Post-actionism as the aesthetics of Putin’s fourth term

Late Soviet Counterculture and New Russian Globalism
The ideas of counter-cultural figures from the Perestroika years are taking on a new social and political significance in contemporary Russian society

The New Russian Renaissance
Why the Kremlin is fascinated by classical antiquity

Daughterland [Rodina-Doch’]: Erotic patriotism and Russia’s future
Conservative mobilization and sexualization of the nation