Dmitry Testov

born in Syktyvkar

Education

Faculty of Philosophy, State University for Humanities (2009)

Degrees

2004–2009 – State University of Humanities, Faculty of Philosophy

2009–2012 – Postgraduate study at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Research interests

 Philosophical anthropology, social anthropology, communication theory, media theory.

Professional activity

Publications

• Bodily Reading: The Problem of Environment in Valery Podoroga’s Analytical Anthropology // Philosophical Journal. 2023. Vol. 16. No. 4, pp. 35–54.
• Thinking Environments: In-Formation and Entropy // Russian Studies in Philosophy. 2022. Vol. 60. No. 3. Pp. 231–243. DOI: 10.1080/10611967.2022.2110793. 
• How to Go Viral: Mass Self-Organization of the Coming Decades // Logos. 2021. Vol. 31. No. 2. Pp. 29–42. DOI: 10.22394/0869-5377-2021-2-29-40. 
• Toward Environmental Theory: Postoptimality and the Pragmatics of Affordance Design // Polylogos. 2021. Vol. 5. No. 3. URL: https://polylogos-journal.ru/S258770110017301-3-1. DOI: 10.18254/S258770110017301-3. 
• Dark Academia: The Aesthetic Structure of the Representation of Collectivity // Art Magazine. 2021. No. 116. pp. 167–175. 
• (co-author M. Prorokova) Membrane // Dictionary of the Pandemic Era. Blue Sofa. Philosophical and Theoretical Journal / Ed. E.V. Petrovskaya. Issue 24. Moscow: Tri Kvadrata, 2020. pp. 156–162. 
• Deep Dream: such stuff as dreams made on // Blue Sofa. Philosophical and Theoretical Journal. Issue 23 / Ed. E. Petrovskaya. Moscow: Tri Kvadrata, 2019. Pp. 138-151. 
• Transformation of Communicative Patterns in the Context of Online Media: Psychopathology and Discreteness. / Bulletin of Moscow University. Series 7, Philosophy, No. 2/2018. Moscow: Moscow University Publishing House, pp. 48-66. 
• Bateson's Concept of the Sacred. / Philosophical Thought. No. 6/2017. Moscow: OOO NB-Media, pp. 111-127. 
• Trait and Distance: Strategies of Anthropological Observation. / Mediator. Mass Media, Society, and Culture (collection of articles / ed. V. Podoroga) Moscow: Valent, 2016. Pp. 99-135. 
• The Concept of Pattern and the Communicative Foundations of G. Bateson's Anthropology. / Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 49, No. 3, 2016. Moscow: Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, pp. 158–177. 
• Structuralism and the Ecology of Mind: A Comparative Analysis of the Anthropological Projects of C. Levi-Strauss and G. Bateson. / Philosophical Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2016. Moscow: Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, pp. 97–113. 
• The Figures of Trance, Play, and Madness in G. Bateson's Anthropology. / Psychology and Psychotechnics, Vol. 84, No. 9, 2015. Moscow: OOO NB-Media, pp. 879–890.