Virginia Postrel. The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness . - HarperCollins, 237 pp. Until recently, a refrigerator was simply a household appliance that made life easier, and a toilet brush was a convenient device for tidying up the toilet. Now they have become a means of self-expression. At least for the Americans.

Network children of the Reformation Pavel Levushkan Publication date: November 20, 2003 "Do you remember how it all began?" For me, it all started at the dawn of mass Internetization in Siberia. The first computers: 486dx2-66, yellow monochrome on the table, white modem box. US Robotics 14400, of which 9600 are real. Access received under the grant program is relatively free through GlasNet. And the heady feeling of destroyed distances.

Taking a quick look at the current season in contemporary art, one cannot help but note one extremely interesting trend. You can call it a fashion for painting or, more precisely, for the good old painting technique. Against the backdrop of the general futurological rapture of the advent of the 21st century and other virtual banalities, this is a rather strange phenomenon, but for a number of reasons it is deeply natural.

On the subethnic pride of Great Russians The variety of manifestations of “Russianness” can become a new formula for “official nationality” Andrey N. Okara Publication date: November 20, 2003 The ethnic , regional and geocultural heterogeneity of the Great Russian ethnos is very rarely taken into account in both scientific and socio-political contexts.

Visual rhyme Vladimir Gandelsman. " New rhymes ". St. Petersburg: Pushkin Foundation, 2003. Series "Autograph" Vladimir Gubailovsky Publication date: November 19, 2003 And any technique, no matter how unexpected and experimental, means nothing in poetry if it is not justified by poetry. Luck redeems everything. But there must be one. Otherwise, no new or old rhymes will help. No matter how you decorate or reshape emptiness, it will remain emptiness.

Moscow's Ukrainian Policy: Reboot Part 2: Open Opportunities Alexander Myachin Publication date: November 20, 2003 Previous part - here And so, pursuing a truly pragmatic policy towards Ukraine requires, first of all, a transition from Slavophilism and Ukrainophilism to Russophilism.

This is criticism Issue 18 Publication date: November 20, 2003 We continue to publish conversations with literary critics. Today the guest of the column is Igor Vinogradov . Russian Magazine: Igor Ivanovich, how can you, the editor-in-chief of Continent , determine the specifics of your magazine? How do you see its place among other thick magazines? Igor Vinogradov: The difference between Continent and other thick magazines is that it is not a monthly, but a quarterly.

How it was is what will be. 3 Andrey Trofimov Publication date: November 20, 2003 Continuation. For the beginning, see: www.russ.ru/netcult/20031112_trofimov.html , http://www.russ.ru/netcult/20031118.html . The Economics of Happy Giving Don't have a hundred rubles, but have a hundred friends. Russian proverb - I had hot sausages brought from home, which the tankers took with pleasure. “I quickly got ready, taking with me ten packs of cigarettes, some food, a bandage, and gauze.

Herr Sturm, bed with Nina and Karenin's ears Afanasy Mamedov "Frau Scar" // Friendship of Peoples, 2002, # 8-9 Petra Aretina Publication date: November 20, 2003 I open my eyes (it seems like they are talking nearby). I find myself sitting (it’s good that I’m sitting) on ​​public transport. On the seat in front of me there are two girls of about 16 years old, one of them has a mouth that won’t close, snatches of phrases can be heard, it’s all something like this: Lyudmila smiles...

The small revolution that has been talked about for so long Masha Fedorenko Publication date: November 20, 2003 David Young is the owner of the website fmob.ru, the ideologist of the flash mob movement in Russia. He has grandiose plans to transform flash mobs into mob art with the help of the best Russian performance artists. The new movement promises to be a small revolution. What the hell is the difference between flash mob and mob art?