BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES OF LANGUAGE: ABOUT VLADIMIR MARTYNOV'S BOOK THE “APOLOGY OF EPIMETHEUS”. MOSCOW: OGI, 2024. 160 P

Vladimir Martynov's study "The Apology of Epimetheus" solves the urgent problem of the crisis of modern culture. The author considers the abolition of reality to be its signs, as well as the abolition of oneself by a person, which is expressed in a variety of phenomena, from the decline of the ideas of humanism to the concepts of the death of the author and the subject. What is happening speaks to the destruction of the idea of the human and the model of their relationship with culture, which was formed in the Neolithic era and is characterized by the predominance of words over images. According to the author of the book, in the future we will have a period of "silence" when nothing new can be said and the word itself loses its meaning. Having passed this stage, humanity will overcome the division between human and nature, the world of biological conditioning and culture.