Seine, issue 15: Shambhala - on Glasnet, Explorer - on the Internet, dance of a thousand naked virgins and Playboy about the X-Files Andrey Travin travin@usa.net Microsoft buys LinkExchange Bill Gates announced Nov. 5 that Microsoft will acquire major advertising banner exchange network LinkExchange to beef up MSN's advertising network for better deals for small businesses. reported this on the same day Wired .

Turgenev and darkness. Post-Pelevin reading of the classics Igor Veretyev Postmodernism as the Last Judgment. Or the end of the century . Or waiting for the Third Millennium . Requires sharp gestures, grimaces, revisions. Postmodernism, having abolished law and order, tradition as a system of criteria, offers its own canon. The canon is a set of actions. Noticeable actions. Visibility is a rule and a condition. Classics in this sense are the best demonstration platform.

About the merging of Europe and how borders go through people Interview of Sergei Mitrofanov with the manager of the Institute of Russian and Soviet Culture named after. Yu. Lotman (Germany) Klaus Waschick At the initiative of the Association of Researchers of Russian Society of the 20th Century (AIRO-XX), Ruhr University, the Institute of Russian and Soviet Culture named after Yu. M.

The two following notes (about Theater and about Literature) are devoted to the fact that some people perceive their life (including sexual life) as part of a general cultural process or, on the contrary, perceive their actions in the field of art only as part of their life-building project. Therefore, a short survey: The “other reality” of withdrawal symptoms and hallucinations is opposed by the distorted reality of lust and death.

Travels across continents Interview of Mark Pechersky with Pico Iyer. pech@russ.ru in San Francisco At the end of July, the famous traveler and writer Pico Iyer presented a new book of essays , “The tropical classical”, . All the chairs in the auditorium for 100 - 150 people were dismantled, people of all ages stood in the aisles and listened attentively to the chapter read by the author about the history of the great Tibetan monastery Potala.

On the pages of newspapers, on the covers of magazines, on screens... Before our eyes, myths of recognition and glory, defeat and oblivion are stamped and introduced. Images of the times and examples of success are being written. Are these images true? Are the samples correct? Why these names, personalities, faces? Why - their biographies, opinions and doubts? Who really creates our daily history: the media industry or ourselves? ...Some of us suddenly declare: “Yes, we are barbarians!

Give support to the "provisional government"! Sergey Kazennov, Vladimir Kumachev Dear reader! You can take part in the discussion by writing, which will be published on this page. Yes, the idea expressed by Dmitry Kuzmin is absolutely correct. It could have been worse, but that’s not what we’re expecting at all. And therefore we cannot bring ourselves to express support, even after drinking too much. So far, the government continues to wage war on the population.

I met the editor of Internet World Valery Pyanchenkov in July of this year at the Corsair bar, where the girls Ira and Olya accidentally dragged me into. It turned out that a historic event was taking place there: the first gathering of people making the St. Petersburg Internet. I’ll be honest: Valery Pyanchenkov turned out to be so unlike the Internet guy that I would have passed by if I hadn’t been specifically introduced to him. After all, what does an Internet person look like?