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Expert opinion: There is no drug propaganda in "Club Culture"10/27/2006
JustMedia publishes the results of the examination of the books “Club Culture” and “Culture of the Times of the Apocalypse”, conducted at Ural State University. publishes the results of an examination of the books “Club Culture” and “Culture of the Times of the Apocalypse,” conducted at Ural State University.
JustMedia publishes the results of an examination of the books “Club Culture” and “Culture of the Times of the Apocalypse” for the presence of drug propaganda, conducted by specialists from Ural State University.
As already reported JustMedia , despite the acquittal of specialists from the Ural State University, the drug control department obtained a decision from the Kirov District Court of Yekaterinburg to destroy the print runs of the books “Clubnaya Kultura” (published by “U-Faktoriya”) and “Kultura Vremya Apokalipsa” (Ultra. Kultura). This decision, unprecedented for post-Soviet Russia, was subsequently overturned by the Regional Court. But yesterday, by decision of the Kirov District Court, the Uralsky Rabochy printing house suffered because of the disgraced books. As reported by JustMedia , for each book the publisher was sentenced to a fine of 45 thousand rubles.
The story of the misadventures of the books "Club Culture" and "Culture of the Times of the Apocalypse" is not over yet. But everything could have ended well for the Ural publishers long ago, if the supporters of the destruction of the books had paid due attention to the examination conducted at the Ural State University. Today, dear readers, we offer you the full text of this document.
Reason for conducting the examination: request from the publishing houses "U-Factoria" and "Ultra. Culture".
Experts:
Bykov Leonid Petrovich, Doctor of Philological Sciences,
Professor, Head of the Department of Russian Literature of the 20th Century
(specialization - Russian language and literature), length of scientific work experience -
35 years:
Kiselev Sergey Yuryevich, candidate of psychological sciences, associate professor
Department of Clinical Psychology (specialty - Psychology
development), scientific work experience - 12 years:
Lozovsky Boris Nikolaevich, professor, candidate of philological
sciences, dean of the faculty of journalism, member of the Union of Journalists
(major in journalism), 30 years of scientific experience.
For a comprehensive study, the following books are presented:
Jackson Phil. Club Culture / Translated from English - Yekaterinburg:
U-Factoria, 2005 - 336 p.
Culture of the Apocalypse / Ed. A. Parfeya. / Per. With
English - Yekaterinburg: Ultra.Culture, 2005. - 600 p.
The following questions were put to the experts for resolution:
1. Does F. Jackson’s book “Club Culture” contain information about the methods, techniques of developing, manufacturing and using narcotics?
2. Does F. Jackson's book "Club Culture" contain propaganda of drugs?
3. Does the book “Culture of the Times of the Apocalypse” contain information about the methods, techniques of developing, manufacturing and using narcotics?
4. Does the book “Culture of the Apocalypse” contain propaganda for drugs?
The research was carried out using methods of linguostylistic, literary, and cultural analysis of the text of these books.
The experts proceeded from the following definition of the initial concepts:
Narcotic drugs (drugs) - substances of synthetic or natural origin, preparations, plants included in the List of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors subject to control in the Russian Federation, international treaties of the Russian Federation, including the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 (see: Art. 1 of the Federal Law "On Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances" of January 8, 1998 No. 3 - FZ / "Collection of Legislation of the Russian Federation", January 12, 1998, No. 2, Art. 219): propaganda of narcotic drugs - the activity of individuals or legal entities aimed at disseminating information about the methods, techniques of development, manufacture and use, places of acquisition of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors (see: Art. 46 of the Federal Law "On Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances" of January 8, 1998 No. 3 - Federal Law / "Collection of Legislation of the Russian Federation", January 12, 1998, No. 2, Art. 219). According to the Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language (Moscow: Russian Language, 1981), propaganda is the dissemination and in-depth explanation of any ideas, teachings, views, knowledge, etc. with the aim of introducing them into people's behavioral attitudes (see also: Lozovsky B.N. Journalism: A Brief Dictionary. - Yekaterinburg: Ural State University, 2004. p. 83).
During the analysis, the following was revealed.
F. Jackson's book "Club Culture", being a translation of the American edition, is a popular science description of an extremely contradictory and very widespread phenomenon in the world (primarily in the West, but in recent years - in Russia as well), which is called clubbing. This phenomenon is generated by the development of civilization and is associated with the increasing "striving for general sensual pleasure" (p. 314). Clubbing, the book shows, arises as a response to this need, giving a person the opportunity to immerse themselves in sensual experiments - on the edge, and even beyond the boundaries of what is accepted in society.
The book expressively and comprehensively illuminates the most diverse “methods of sensory expression that contemporary culture simultaneously creates and condemns” (p. 16). At the same time, the specificity of this publication is that the essence of these or those “social-sensory experiences” is spoken about by the “experimenters” themselves, who have entered, in one way or another, into the “zone of extremes.”
These informants do not hide the fact that in their thirst for the sharpness and novelty of physical and emotional sensations they resorted to drugs, although the author stipulates: “Among my informants there were no users of heroin or crack... Heroin and crack tear apart social networks, since due to the addiction they cause, the desire for the drug becomes more important for its users than the people around them” (p. 104). Speaking about the use of such “impositions” on consciousness as alcohol or marijuana, cocaine or LSD, the author unfolds the dynamics of his interlocutors’ attitudes to such “dopings”, highlighting the following stages: 1) acquaintance, 2) honeymoon, 3) abuse, 4) reassessment. The author's sentence addressed to the reader on page 236 is particularly eloquent: “You can take a new look at your life or end up trying to find solace in drugs, because they will become the only thing that will allow you to suppress your feelings.”
The author soberly recognizes the harsh reality, noting that "drugs have become woven into the social and aesthetic fabric of our culture" (p. 107). But at the same time, the frankness and open-mindedness of the "travelers" "to the planet of pleasure" allows us to consider F. Jackson's book a story not only about the possibilities of "pleasure", but also about their limits, as well as about the dangers and pitfalls lurking on the path to these "pleasures". In accordance with his own position as a witness and analyst, the author does not moralize, but shows what, in his opinion, drug use turns into, indicating both their potential for what he calls "expanding sensory experience", and the ability to become "a destructive force threatening to turn the brightest personality into a boring "chemist" (p. 160). The choice of one's own position in relation to clubbing and everything that goes with it - including drugs - remains with the reader, whom the author trusts.
Based on what has been said, we answer the questions related to F. Jackson’s book “Club Culture” as follows.
Answer to question 1. F. Jackson’s book “Club Culture” does not contain information about the methods, methods of development, production and use of narcotic drugs.
Answer to question 2. F. Jackson's book "Club Culture" does not contain propaganda of drugs.
The book “Culture of the Times of the Apocalypse” is a collection of articles translated from foreign sources, which give characteristics of all sorts of social deviations that are “far-reaching” in their extremeness. One of the articles relevant to questions 3 and 4 is “Ketamine Necromancy” by David Woodard (pp. 415 - 423).
The article explains the psychophysiological nature of ketamine's action ("Ketamine blocks the neurotransmitters of glutamate between nerve cells in the brain..." - p. 421), describes its effect (it "puts us into a speechless - in a figurative and literal sense - state" - p. 416: "I find myself in a strange state of the greatest indifference" - p. 417). These pages (see pp. 418, 420, 423) also contain information about the use of this drug, but at the same time it is warned that thanks to ketamine one gains "the status of an ambassador in the kingdom of the dead" (p. 423).
In the analyzed material, as in the book by F. Jackson, there is no direct condemnation of the use of the drug, but it is repeatedly emphasized that "ketamine is the embodiment of the dreams of kidnappers, rapists and murderers, since it ensures the absolute separation of the victim's personality from the body" (p. 419). It also indicates a very real prospect for such a victim "to be subjected to regular rape in a Mexican prison for ten years only to have his eyes gouged out and stare into raw empty eye sockets for another twenty years before (the arrested for using ketamine - clarification of experts) the time of trial is set" (p. 421). Such., prospects outlined by the author of the article, we believe, clearly indicate that his attitude to ketamine necromancy (or, which, in our opinion, is more accurate, necromancy) is far from positive.
The above allows us to answer the questions related to the book “Culture of the Times of the Apocalypse” as follows.
Answer to question 3. The book “Culture of the Apocalypse” does not contain information about the methods, methods of development and production of narcotic substances. although it contains information on the use of ketamine (see pp. 418, 420, 423).
Answer to question 4. The book “Culture of the Times of the Apocalypse” does not contain propaganda of narcotic drugs.
Conclusion: Based on the examination carried out, we affirm that F. Jackson’s book “Club Culture” and the book of articles “Culture of the Apocalypse” do not contain propaganda of narcotic drugs.
Members of the expert group: Professor L.P.Bykov
Professor B.N.Lozovsky
September 5, 2006 Associate Professor S.Yu.Kiselev
"I APPROVE"
Vice-Rector of Ural
state university
Professor V.P. Prokopiev
Jamil
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