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From a Dialogue on the Desert

Between an Optimist and a Skeptic

Summary/Abstract: The article returns to the primordial form of philosophical dialogue (while also, paradoxically, distancing itself from it) in order to discuss (sic!) some topical ethnocultural and cultural-civilizational problems of the modern post-industrial world. For example, the author discusses authentic (natural) poverty and poverty presented as a “tourist package“, as a business commodity. The article deals with the one-way irreversibility of the plot: a desert can be destroyed, but not re-created; or the desert as a capital with zero (i.e., entirely potential) value; poverty as a non-independent quality imposed from the outside by the other; as well as the essential proximity between the savage and the bourgeois; etc.

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