Epistemology of culture, a model of the evolution of semantics

Strigin Mikhail Borisovich

The paper gives a new view on the topology of culture. Three ontologically different layers and categories of culture are described: modernism, postmodernism and antimodernism. A model is proposed that shows how these layers interact with each other. For this purpose, the semantic space is introduced, where epistemology defines "geometry", which is cultural knowledge, and epistemology defines its existence, explicating semantic processes. Within the framework of this model, it is shown that philosophy forms a single context, clarifying and deep semantic "bursts" of modernity and their "straightening" by postmodern contradictions caused by the tension of semantic "splash" and internal "Brownian vortices" of antimodernism, which do not change the "topology" of semantics. It is shown that the paradoxes of modernism are revealed with the expansion of the context, with the explication of the transcendental. On the example of poetic texts the empirical part of the work is presented, where the samples of postmodernism and anti-literature as a kind of anti-modernism are demonstrated.

Keywords:system, philosophy, context, modernism, postmodernism, antimodernism, anti-literature.