Syg.ma continues to publish excerpts from the latest issue of the Blue Sofa magazine, dedicated to violence in modern culture. Still from Michael Haneke's film "The Hidden" Valery Podoroga, “Hidden and Destroyed. Violence in modern cinema (approaches to the topic)" Camera violence. The habit of seeing everything is the first condition for the violence automatically introduced into our existence by the movie camera. Hence the movement of the author's camera-eye.

Michel de Certau and his book ("The Invention of the Everyday"), in its description of space and place, gave the idea of ​​​​an argument regarding the meaning of monuments: they mark space, fill it with the figure of the monument and the history associated with it and the stories that through this weave the fabric of society.

For the third year now, within the walls of the City Center for Fine Arts, artist Alexander Tairov has been holding art meetings at which he tells Novosibirsk residents about the work of Klimt, Van Gogh, Magritte and other great artists. Mikhail Koninin talked with the artist about how these meetings differ from ordinary lectures, about the Siberian mentality and the vulgarity of Novosibirsk.

Nike Borzov about death, freedom and the boundaries of reality. — I met you as a stage character through the Three Words video, when I was still a child. For me, both the video and the song became almost a revelation, a kind of click of awakening from hypnosis. I couldn’t explain to myself then this feeling of a new quality of communication between rock music and me. Three words were an explosion for the culture of that time, in your opinion? -... Well, apparently, yes.

What exactly will become the new utopia? Wire won Or a phone? Resacralization Nuclear power plant Criticism of disembodiment Abstraction Part of private Impeccable love Emotional castration Design future - the word carries a connotation of the general, has a home and a center, as if Resacralization Metaphor Catharsis Deadly Flawless Sex Catastrophe Situation as if the word future is outdated encroachment limit by situation Empire Porn Tel, Genetic model Transport in motion.

90s. Novosibirsk Roughly dressed people against the backdrop of gloomy gray Soviet-era buildings. Brisk trade right on the street. Hand-drawn advertising posters and posters. A variety of music sounding from the open windows of apartments, cars, stalls... In fact, this is what any city in the post-Soviet space looked like. How can one see a face with a different expression, hear “that same” voice?

Stone worshipers and pigguin covenant. Jesus Christ - directly marked Simon (simony?) as Peter - the Stone. and on this stone (and not you, on the grave) I will build my church. That is, simply - a temple building. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.

Time is Eurasianizing (regarding the joint album of RICH and Zakhar Prilepin “On the Ocean”) Reviews of music albums are usually written in the first days after the album's release. Two or three reviews in the first week after release - and then you can kind of forget about the album. As an author, I reserve the copyright to write a review both after a year and after two years. Provided, of course, that the album really represents an event and has value.