Nomadic singularity and the riot of prodigal son: reflection on metaphors of culture

The object of this article is an attempt to reveal metaphorical and mythological context of post-modern philosophy existence in modern culture. In this connection the author addresses one of the most important notions of post-modern discourse - nomadic singularity of Gilles Deleuze, which implicitly contains the reasons for the explanation of modern philosophy and culture condition. The nomadological project of Deleuze and his co-author Felix Guattari supposes distinguishing between two contemporary coexisting types of culture- settled and nomadic. To settled West European culture Deleuze and Guattari opposed the concept of rhizome. The settled West European culture is not completely empty but it doesn't have any future. The rhizome which Deleuze associated with incipient nomadic culture neither has a semantic center nor a single code that could centre this culture. The rhizomorphic environment thereby receives a great creative stimulus to self-organization. The critic perceives Deleuze's project as carcinomatosis of culture because all values, discourses and traditions are intermixed in it. But the target of Deleuze was human exclusion beyond the framework of space and time. In this connection Deleuze actively uses the idea of Nietzshe about Eternal Return. Deleuze interprets the idea of Niezshe as a victory over time and the evidence of nature law. This riot against inevitability was repeated in history of culture over and over again. And if we talk about western culture, one of its mythological dominants was always a myth of rioter who rejected his kith and kin for his unique way. Archetypically this myth was reflected in evangelic parable of a prodigal son. In western tradition the hero of this parable was associated with the humanity which had broken away from God's grace and wanted to look for its own way. This metaphoric analogy makes it possible to reveal those aspects of cultural subconsciousness which are not always evident - the riot of non-classical philosophy against classical philosophy logocentrism played on an old myth of a prodigal son. Thereby, Deleuze's nomadism being one of the most impressive metaphors of modern culture and resulting from eternal desire to live in accordance with its own understanding (but this is fraught with a waste of cultural values, ethical relativity, death of art, etc.) asserts not just some aimless wandering of a body left by the Spirit but a tragically spiritual search of a man on the way to his cultural development

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