These notes were made in the middle of tedious work on the next weekly campaign schedule, where under “November 9” I discovered the mysterious “200th anniversary of the end of the Great French Revolution.” Anticipating a scolding of the employee of the calendar department for such nonsense, I took away two hundred from 1999 - 1799 - yeah, the end of the Directory, November - their then “brumaire”... And November 9 isn’t that the 18th Brumaire of Napoleon Bonaparte? !

"Romance" directed by Catherine Breillat. France, 1999 Berdyaev , I remember, used to say: “a woman is the bearer of the sexual element in this world.” In a woman, gender is spread throughout the entire flesh of the body and throughout the entire field of the soul, while in a man it is more specialized and differentiated, i.e. occupies only part of himself. (N. Berdyaev, “The Meaning of Creativity”, Chapter VIII “Creativity and Gender. Male and Female.”).

Today the second Russian Internet festival "InterNit-99" opened in Novosibirsk. The festival's motto is "The Internet for the benefit of the cause." The program includes seminars and round tables on topics relevant to the Russian Web, master classes by famous designers, and discussions. In addition, today the Novosibirsk Press Club issued a statement from the festival participants.

Monday √ Monday Andrei Madison Publication date: November 9, 1999 Review of Russian weeklies (1.11.99 √ 8.11.99) Revisionist fairy tale An old-timey joke: Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, in a close, wide circle of comrades in the fraternal communist parties, is solemnly celebrating something. And he’s already completely drunk. Suddenly, having heavily surveyed the surrounding faces, unexpectedly for everyone he stands up and, stuttering, proclaims: “Idea!.. Idea!..”.

Dictionary of terms of the Moscow conceptual school. Compiled and author of the foreword. A. Monastyrsky. - M.: Ad Marginem, 1999. - 222 p.; circulation 3000 copies; ISBN 5-93321-09-9. The mutual similarity between Moscow Conceptualism and American pop art is determined not only by long-standing family ties (in the 70s they produced a nihilistic, albeit profitable offspring - Sots Art). Much more seriously they are connected by the similarity of cultural status.

Two political sciences Orest Zhdan Publication date: November 9, 1999 I Political science in our country has so far had a short biography. It is all the more interesting to look and evaluate the image this discipline, born from a strange crossing of scientific communism with some ideas of Western political science, has acquired in our country.

Interactive Provoked by the film of Grisha of Constantinople reviewed below, I decided to ask the readers an indecent question: about money. And, if possible, don’t lie. You're not at the tax office or in a bar with a girl. Don't be poor and don't show off. What is your monthly income?

Network and superstition Linor Goralik Publication date: November 8, 1999 Prejudice, it's a bummer Ancient truth - the temple fell, And Ruin is his descendant What is the language... E. Baratynskyi Rare habitats give rise to superstitions. Most likely, it is impossible to do without this: the need for the supernatural is great, the desire to provide for the future is great, the desire to see connections between phenomena - real or imaginary - is great.