# Alexei Yurchak **Domain:** Anthropology / Political Culture **Doc Type:** Thinker Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[HyperNormalisation]], [[Public Mythology]], [[Institutional Reality]] --- ## Definition Alexei Yurchak is an anthropologist whose work on late Soviet society introduced the concept later popularized as hypernormalization. ## Corpus Context His scholarship supplies the historical source behind [[HyperNormalisation]] and helps keep the term distinct from Adam Curtis's broader documentary application. ## Relationships [[HyperNormalisation]], [[Public Mythology]], [[Institutional Reality]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]