Review: This article describes the concept of the Sufi communication studies as a new interdisciplinary direction, emerged at the intersection of philosophy, theology and theory of communication. The theory of meaning develops within the framework of Sufi communication studies. The author defines the information leaning on the term of Claude Shannon “anti-entropy” through the Sufi category of “nizam”. Further, meaning is defines as achievement of such resonance in a uniform order that leads to Encounter. The article introduces the following philosophical metaphors: “You-are” boundary, manifestation of “You-are-being”, theological autism, game field, and encounter space. Communicative methodology is applied as an alternative to logical-conceptual and cultural-historical methods in researching mystical literature and medieval sources. The author structures the theory of meaning, where meaning is described through the following attributes: 1) communicativeness, since decoding of a symbol and derivation of meaning is only between the two; 2) dynamism, since meaning is always the result of movement towards the Other, “efforts-towards-You”, vector, path where meaning will signify the “You-Are” boundary, and ending of the path; 3) supra-rationality, when meaning is obtained as love, aesthetic and spiritual experi3ences, aletheia, clarity and light; 4) meaning as an Encounter in understanding of Buber and Bollnow, where the game suddenly ends and encounter is attained, the “You-are” boundary is being reached.

Keywords: the meeting, postmodernism, sufism, communication theory, Selim Divane, Otto Bollnow, Martin Buber, the other, the sense, the force

Review: Mythologem of the Siberian exile and its role within the structure of national mentality for the past decades is a subject of meticulous research of culturologists, philosophers and literary historians. However, the problem of visual representations of such mythologem, which supposedly in the conditions of modern “visual turn” should attract greater attention of the humanities scholars, it still remains outside of scientific research. The author is firs to determine and align the chronological series of the landmark and prominent  works of the national art capturing the sesquicentennial period of visual documentation of the Siberian servitude and exile, which allows tracing the pivotal transformations of the created visual images at various stages of national history. The study carries culturological character, as it is structured on determination and analysis of the common trends and patterns of the indicated process, claiming no detailed art review of separate compositions. The artworks that became the sources for this research are examined as visual demonstration of the existing within Russian society representations on Siberian exile, and simultaneously, as the way of their formation and establishment. The author outlines parallel between the “known from firsthand experience” – structured on the basis of the existing myths, and emotions – informative, which is related to temporal parameters and level of criticism of the works.

Keywords: artist, time, visualisation, fine art, myth, mythologeme, exile, Siberia, representation, the Stalin's era

Keywords: value, art, value-normative system, inculturation, value system, philosophy, interdisciplinary approach, sociocultural aspect, canons of art, symbol

Keywords: social communication, virtuality, Information society, information war, social network, The Great Disruption, social space, network society, The Third Wave, decentralization

Keywords: cultural ambivalence, ecology, Eastern philosophy, semiotic concept, Japanese animation, Hayao Miyazaki, Shinto, Japan, semantic, social prognosis