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The cross-cutting theme of the 3/2 issue of Researcher is the problem of transformation of human nature in civilizational, historical, and cultural dimensions. The opening essay by Ilia Delio focuses on the current semantic context of this transformation and its cons equences, which change taken for granted values in daily life. The author announces the end of an era that affirms the value of an autonomous liberal subject, and connects the future with the beginning of the history of post-human being, a new type of personality integrated into the "maps of connections" (through socialism, pol itics, environment, economics, sexuality, etc.). Arkady Ursul develops the topic of information transformation, which shows that essence of globalization is the approval of the tr iad of universals: spatial distribution, integration and universality. Through the prism of these universals, the author considers cultu ral genesis and predicts the "global developmental algorithms" of man in the information world. Konstantin Kolin analyzes the main challenges of modern civil ization that should be overcome in the process of globalist discourse of civilizational transformation. The author includes the geopolit ical concept of "nuclear deterrence", the ideology of post-industrial society, the exhaustion of natural resources, and the development of artificial intelligence to these challenges. The answer to these challenges should be a new enlightenment in which the focus is on caring for the future of the planet, and on finding a balance in sol ving global problems. An essay by Italian researcher of Russian history, Ornella Calvarese, is dedicated to the wandering bards of ancient Russiakaliki. Turning to the study of a Russian Middle Ages phenomenon, the author draws a conclusion about the cultural role of spiritual nomadism, which has influenced and still continues to influence the Russian worldview. A deep historical perspective allows us to recreate the past, reveal hidden meanings, restore national identity against the background of spasmodic, often interrupted stages of transformation of Russian culture. We continue to publish Nadezhda Gonotskaya's research piece "Recipe: the Apotheosis of Rationality or the Magic of Life?". In this second part of her essay, attention is paid to a special case of