Andrei Gornykh is professor at the Department of Media and Communication, European Humanitarian University (Vilnius, Lithuania). He holds a PhD in social theory from the Saint Petersburg State University Laval (Saint Petersburg, Russia), and has specialized at the Literature Program (prof. F. Jameson) at Duke University (USA). His recent publications include ‘Lacan’s image theory: lack, exchange, meaning’ (Palgrave Handbook of Image Studies, 2022); ‘Organizing fantasies: ideology of late capitalism in media’ (Athena, 2021); ‘Trava – Trata – Travlia: Tarkovsky’s Psychobiography à la lettre’ (REFOCUS: The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky, 2021); ‘Symbolic Action and Communication: Metaphor and Money in Kenneth Burke’ (Literature of the Americas, 2020).