Dear friends!

The editorial board of the magazine "Culture of Culture" congratulates all the authors and employees of the magazine on the upcoming New Year and wishes everyone health and creative vigor.

In recent years, there has been a noticeable deterioration in the position of cultural studies in our science. We are no longer talking about any social order for cultural studies. Thank God that they have not been banned yet. Their uselessness is quite understandable. If twenty years ago the history of society was understood as the history of its culture, now the history of society is the history of its power structures. The customer is not interested in culture. In these conditions, it is increasingly difficult to develop the science of culture, because we have to constantly bypass the key postulate that the knowledge of culture is identical to the knowledge of freedom, which is not in trend now.

At the same time, all this has not affected cultural education in any way, and it remains the same whimsical combination of historical, sociological, art history and religious studies knowledge, which each teacher interprets in his own way. Even the rejection of the Bologna system has not affected cultural education yet. So cultural scientists still have a field of activity without the support of the authorities.

However, any government never knows why it needs humanitarian knowledge and how to use it to its advantage. So we are not used to it.

Once again, Happy New Year to all.