Review: This article explores the question of theoretical principles of environmental design. The writings of the Russian and Chinese authors became the key historiographical and literary materials for this research. To address the question at hand, the author takes the following steps: examines information on classification of the specialty “environmental design” in education systems of various countries, primarily in Russia and China; correlates the concepts of “art” and “environmental design”, dedicating particular attention to similarities of these two areas of knowledge; systematizes the levels of environmental design; formulates the goal, method and content of the indicated academic and scientific scope of activity. The method of historiographical analysis for studying the original sources on education systems of Russia and China was applied in the course of this research. The comparative analysis was used for identification of similarities and differences with regards to classification of the specialty “environmental design” in various countries. The author determined that the concept of “artistic” environmental design exists only in Russia and China. The conclusion is made that environmental design, as a separate category of scientific and academic knowledge, is similar to visual arts from the perspective of purpose and object, in other words, “coordination of the relations” (for environmental design it is the interaction between human and environment) and “Image”. The method of environmental design incorporated the theoretical results of adjacent areas – the design of architectural environment and landscape architecture. The scientific novelty is define by comparison of the sources and literature of Russia and China.

Keywords: Integration of disciplines, Relationship coordination, Image, Process, Art, Landscape architecture, Design of architectural environment, China, Russia, Environmental design

Review: This article analyzes the phenomenon of media culture as one of the aspects of modern sociocultural realities and its interpretation from the perspective of culturological and philosophical discourses. Special attention is dedicated to the impact of media culture overall and media images (as cultural texts) in particular upon the mentality and worldview of its carriers and consumers. An attempt is made to examine media culture as one of the factors contributing to the formation of such subcultures as survivalism and “reclusion”. The author uses information approach to explore the aforementioned subcultures as a process and result of the synthesis of social and information phenomena. System approach suggest viewing media culture and subcultures, forming around and within it, as a part of sociocultural realities. The scientific novelty consists in the author’s attempt to determine in the context of culturological research the grounds of the established in modern postindustrial information type of culture and developing subcultures of survivalists and “recluses”; as well as in the analysis of representation of these subcultures in media culture and forms of their popularization.

Keywords: reclusion, survivalism, subculture, basic culture, media images, information society, media culture, media, subcultural formation, Internet space

Keywords: historical guilt, historical responsibility, historical forgiveness, philosophy of history, ethics of persuasion, ethics of responsibility, agonistic memory, cosmopolitan memory, antagonistic memory, historical consciousness

Keywords: grecophile tradition, Chernorizets Khrabr, the national and the universal, hierotopia, narrative, historical form, historical consciousness, writing, Jacques Derrida, Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Keywords: behavioral economic theory, irrational economic subject, theory of nudge, homo oeconomicus, framing effect, Architect of choice, state paternalism, libertarian paternalism, compatibilism, economic freedom

Keywords: integral traditionalism, Rene Guenon, anthropology, universal man, transcendence man, initiation, symbol, lesser mysteries, great mysteries, metaphysics