Social Design Corporation. The network expert initiative
Projects and Programs:
 Designing and developing social projects
Developing new approaches and methods of analysis
Participating in the creation of an expert agenda
Providing information and analytical insight to the Corporation’s activities
Offering consultant and expert services to outside requestors
Constant intellectual forum with the participation of the compatriots, Russians from abroad and all the stakeholders of Russian culture and civilization
Studies of the importance of Russian civilization in the World
Scientific and cultural exchange with the Russians from abroad
Popularization of Russian progress in the field of human sciences
Social Design Corporation's Rating Centre
Rating researches of sociopolitical processes
Indexes, Classification, Risk-analysis, Standards
The intellectual class is the generator of reform
Why is there always power where there are intellectuals?
Why does the intelligentsia act as a driving force of social transformation, often effortlessly?
How do revolutions and reforms take place in a situation where their modernistic interpretation is gradually being relegated to the archives?
«Censura» expresses no official position, makes no value judgments and no interpretations
«Censura» is a means of defining a «second», «additional», «external», or yet unknown voice or form of writing that has been «pushed out» into the category of «other»
«Censura» is an alternative, or addition, to the academic method of transferring «philosophical knowledge»
Its target audience are recipients of intellectual and political decisions who are free from any «basic logic», personal interest or charisma
Translating foreign works and publishing original works
Maintaining an up-to-date and competent Russian readership
Creating a high-quality intellectual library and auditorium
D. Kralechkin has translated in Russian the works of prominent philosophers: Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Briquemont, and Alan Sokal
Special Researches
Local Politics
1. Local political strategies in the world (next street politics)
2. The mystery of the persistence of the ground-level political niche
3. How can local politics, as an open-ended system, oppose resistance to regionalization?
4. How did the absence of a local dimension nearly cause the loss of Eastern Europe?
5. How can local politics become a useful tool if we stop being afraid of it?
The Opposition in Developing Democracies
1. Studying the structure of the opposition in developing democracies
2. Why is the opposition condemned to remain a group of «free riders»?
3. How does this restrict the political field of maneuver according to a «domino» effect?
4.Why have the democratization strategies of the «successful» Eastern European countries remained unrecognized?
Philosophy of science fiction
1. Science fiction is not so much a literary genre as a specific mode in which philosophy, politics and science intersect
2. Philosophical science fiction should become a fantastic philosophy!
3. Science fiction creates, continuously reproduces, and maintains a specific horizon of expectancies; it is a methodology for enhancing creativity
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