Article,
Russian Media Theory: Is There Any? Should There Be? How About These?
Media Theory, 5 (2): 223--246 (2022)
Abstract
This paper makes a bibliographic case for as well as several arguments against the existence of a body of media theory named ‘Russian media theory’. Elements of the Slavic intellectual tradition are briefly surveyed in an effort to accrue eclectic resources for thinking about media in and beyond Russian. As a gesture to the spirit of Peters’ Speaking into the Air as well in borrowing and twisting the title of his less well-known co-edited volume on the field’s canon, this article pays special attention to historiographic, geopolitical, and media philosophical objections to the project of Russian media theory as well as to possible ways forward toward transnational thought on the media environment.
