Review: The object of this research is the editing as an artistic phenomenon in the national scientific context. The subject is the scientific literature about editing within the system of artistic culture. The author examines the phenomenon of editing in musicology. Special attention is given to the analysis of Russian music of the XX century, namely the works of Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, and other composers. For the purpose of systematization of the material, the author conducted a branch-wise analysis of the existing literature: film studies, art history, musicology, and other humanitarian sciences. The selected methodology allowed determining the meaningfulness for one or another branch and the background of such interest. A conclusion is made that editing as an artistic phenomenon is widely covered in the works of the scholars. Each author attempts to describe editing from the perspective of philosophical, culturological and technological systems of the XX century. For the first time, based on the sequential analysis, the author traces the gradual process of mastering of this artistic phenomenon by the scientific thought. The scientific novelty also lies in raising the relevant questions that require a new scientific interpretation.

Keywords: literature, theater, cinema, article, research, analysis, artistic creation, editing, music, phenomenon

Review: The object of this research is the modern graphic design. The author examines the potential of graphic design at the junction of current information technologies and customary context of methods, means and capabilities of graphic designer. The subject of this research is the impact of interactive media technologies and applied animation upon the modern image of graphic design, in the context of formation of the relevant model of graphic design. The article provides the examples of implementation of the capabilities of expanded and virtual reality into the various spheres of human activity. As most relating to the subject of research, the author reviews the capabilities of virtual environments in such areas ad game industry, museology, tourism and advertising, virtual communication and interactive media. The main conclusion consists in determination of the factors of mass culture and modern technologies that affect the transformation of graphic design. The conducted analysis of interaction of the virtual environments and the “new digital media” with the sphere of graphic design within the context of game design, museum practice, tourism and advertising, allows forecasting the prospects of further development and establishment of the image of graphic design.

Keywords: interfaces, modern technology, interactive media, methods and means, visual communications, graphic design, electronic media, media industry, virtual reality, augmented reality

Keywords: tradition, traditionalism, Guenon, ideology, esotericism, metaphysical, modernity, initiation, transcendental, regression

Keywords: Cassirer, Heidegger, the Davos debate, rhetorical theory, philosophical anthropology, symbolic forms, social meaning, philosophy of culture, symbolic function, Swedish philosophy

Keywords: Sloterdijk, philosophy of architecture, Buckminster Fuller, Le Corbusier, sphere, the Immunological theory of architecture, capsular architecture, Gaston Bachelar, collector, Psychoanalysis in architecture

Keywords: Prishvin, Bergson’s, Marxism, Bolshevism, revolution, evolution, human ape, ape-man, metatext, reconstruction