Abstract
In this article, the author offers his approach to the study of the phenomenon of retrotopic thinking (the orientation of utopian thinking in the past). The article is conditionally divided into two parts. In the first part, Andrei Tarkovsky's films are analyzed as a set of concrete examples of retrotopic thinking. At the same time, the author makes ideal-typical drawings, setting a number of parametric characteristics on the basis of which it is possible to separate some variants of retrotopic thinking from others. In the second part, the author extends the analysis of retrotopic thinking to the entire human history, showing its fullness with retrotopias. At the same time, the author analyzes all variants of utopian thinking: both retrotopias and protopias (the orientation of utopian thinking towards the future). The history of mankind, and especially the history of globalizing modernity, is viewed as a complex deployment of protopic and retrotopic projects.
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