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About the series:
This is a series of contemporary Ukrainian literature that is being created in our time, in Ukraine and abroad, and is a powerful testament to how strong and diverse the Ukrainian word and Ukrainian culture are today. This is especially valuable and important for a nation that is defending its right to be and create its own culture in a war. The series combines works by both well-known authors and bright debuts, because here everyone is among their own, there is a place for respectable poetry and light prose, drama and novel, essays and stories, critical essays and short stories. The works of the authors presented in the series are combined with visuals by Ukrainian artists whose paintings are presented on the covers of the books. Let's be among our own
About the book:
The book presents historical, political, cultural, philosophical essays and articles by Anatoliy Dnistrovyi written over the past 25 years. The state, the individual, social and political transformations of post-Soviet society, post-ideologies - these and other topics are examined by the author through the lens of an interdisciplinary approach and in the context of Ukraine's contemporary cultural and historical realities. The book is addressed to readers who are interested in the formation of modern society, political philosophy, and issues of global progress. The author believes that every writer will sooner or later come to his or her own "Book of Observations" in the tradition of the prominent Ukrainian thinker and poet Yevhen Malaniuk. "Panopticon. Politics" is a milestone in Anatoliy Dnistrovyi's work as a writer and intellectual.
About the author:
Anatoliy Dnistrovyi is a writer, philosopher, artist, and vlogger. He was born in 1974 in Ternopil. He is a member of PEN Ukraine. He graduated from the
History and Philology Department of the Mykola Gogol Nizhyn State Pedagogical Institute (1997), and defended his dissertation on the continuum of understanding of history by representatives of Ukrainian radical nationalism at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (2000). Candidate of Philosophy (2001). Over the years, Anatoliy Dnistrovyi has taught special courses on professional literary writing at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and a course of lectures on the literature of Ukrainian modernism at Masaryk University (Czech Republic, Brno). He has worked as a researcher at the National Institute for Strategic Studies, where he focused on ethnopolitics, postcolonialism, and human security. He is a co-author of a number of analytical documents of the NISS: reports "Problems and Priorities of Modernisation of Ukrainian Cultural Policy" (2014), "Ukraine and the Russian World Project" (2014), "Systemic Crisis in Ukraine: Preconditions, Risks, Ways to Overcome" (2014), and a collective monograph "Donbas and Crimea: The Price of Return" (2015). In 2015-2016, Anatoliy Dnistrovy headed the analytical group of the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, and was a member of the government PR campaign in 2016-2019. Dnistrovyi's literary output includes more than 25 books of poetry, prose, and essays. His latest books include the novels Grey Peina (2023), In Snow Captivity (2024), Ghosts (2024), and the non-fiction Conversations with Intellectuals: Interviews of Ideas (2022) and The Battle for Life: Diary of 2022 (2024). Anatoliy Dnistrovyi's poetry, prose and essays have been translated into English, German, Italian, Czech, Polish, Estonian, Lithuanian, Georgian, Armenian, Serbian, Belarusian and have received several awards. He declared himself as an artist in 2013. Dnistrovyi's paintings are kept in the National Museum of Taras Shevchenko and the Kharkiv Literary Museum. He runs his own humanitarian and cultural channel Anatolii Dnistrovyi on YouTube. In May 2022, he joined the Defence Forces of Ukraine. He is an officer.
