Text and context: being on the boundary

In the review of the ninth edition of the symposium book “Philological Discourse: Contemporary Contexts of Language and Literature” (Tyumen, 2011) the phenomenon of transgression in modern culture is regarded and the problem of text being in the context of Russian and European cultures and in the literature of Russian “abroad” is contemplated. The following key terms of the symposium book are analysed: dialogue of texts of national culture, of texts of different nature, interaction of humane and other spheres of texts being. In the review special attention is paid to interdisciplinarity in contemporary humane knowledge and challenges of information technology to culture.