Vita
Maxim Khomyakov (ORCID: 0000-0002-1996-9896) is a historical and cultural sociologist with a strong background in philosophy and intellectual history. He has recently worked as Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan), and had previously held various positions in Russian universities such as Higher School of Economics (Saint-Petersburg) and Ural Federal University (Ekaterinburg). He also held visiting positions at Free University, Berlin, Hamburg University, the University of Johannesburg (South Africa), Fudan University (China), the University of Yor (UK), Texas A&M University (USA) as well as being a Marie Curie senior fellow at European University Institute, Florence (Italy).
Projects at LCSS
At LCSS Maxim Khomyakov studies the role science and technology play in the modern imaginary of mastery over the world (meaning both mastery over non-human nature and control over society), especially in Soviet and post-Soviet constellations of Russian modernity. This research is an essential part of a larger historical-sociological project on interpreting mastery over the world in different modern constellations and is based, on the one hand, on the theories of plural modernity, and on the other hand, on the historical and sociological analysis of a cluster of such concepts as ‘scarcity’, ‘frontiers’, ‘autonomy’, ‘mastery’, ‘affluence’ and so on.
