Abstract

[Ot idei mirovogo radio u Khlebnikova - v budushchee] One of Velimir Khlebnikov’s summative concepts was the utopia he created in his manifesto Radio of the Future (autumn 1921). Here were fused Nietzschean ideas and metaphors; anticipations of technological Futurism coming from Italy; Russian messianic expectations, and premonitions, later embodied in the ideas of Vernadsky’s “noosphere”; tendencies to deify the Machine and the Mechanical. Reflecting on the artistic artefact: the giant, divine image of the “samoglas”, the poet expressed his thoughts about the world associations of people’s spirits. In the essay, we will consider the utopian concept framework: from premonitions of the world web of information, grasping the cognitive, organizational and creative functions of the new media, dreams of the spiritual unity of mankind – to Khlebnikov's loose imaginations, the text language born in a difficult period of his life – with the knowledge of the further development of the “radio theme” in the work of Russian writers, up to the present time.