(conversation in Voronezh with Andrey Korobov-Latyntsev) ... Andrey Korobov-Latyntsev: I propose to start as Alyosha and Ivan, i.e. immediately about the secret. Remember, Ivan Karamazov in Dostoevsky says that Russian people will gather in some tavern and let us resolve eternal human questions. About God, for example. And others will be about socialism, but these are the same questions, only from the other end, as the same Ivan Karamazov says. So I propose to start from the other end.

If we imagine, just for fun, that the shortlist of the “Big Book” would have been handed over to be collected not by writers, but by PR people (let’s say, if someone had the idea to resort to this in order to save the fading interest in reading), it is very likely that it would look exactly the way it looks in 2016. There's something for (almost) everyone to root for on this list, which is why it's perfect; The competition must be stopped here.

Film expert, teacher at VGIK and editor-in-chief of the film studio named after. Gorky, Andrei Apostolov, in a conversation with the MCC, brought out the concept of the “Leningrad Cinema Club”, spoke about the work of Grigory Kozintsev and discussed modern cinema. Andrey, what do you think about the concept of the Leningrad Film Club? In your opinion, are similar film projects relevant in St. Petersburg?

A hypothetical formula for viral content, good writing, and just about everything. Man is a weak creature: he does not run fast, he cannot fly, he gets tired from crawling, he freezes and dies from dehydration in just three days. In a word, not a creature, but a weak, lustful ugliness that has to dodge and compensate for its bodily limitations in every possible way [1]. And you have to live with this, and you have to adapt to the changing world.

My thoughts return to a small beach clearly of artificial origin - at one time loaded Kamaz trucks drove along a narrow road in single file and brought sand, much needed in order to go to the bank of a peat river it was possible to approach without putting on boots, - I'm going back to where everyone has been since then changed without changing.

A variety of people, not necessarily religious ones, believe in the power of spells. Spells are considered either useful and necessary, or a connection with dark forces. And atheists look at things more simply: it’s just... boring: “With the help of spells, people try to achieve the fulfillment of desires that they cannot fulfill in the usual way: to influence the weather, career, love, health. The believer wants and asks, the magician commands.

Three quotes from David Harvey's book A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Current reading" : 1. "As the state withdraws its social welfare functions and withdraws its involvement in areas such as health care, public education, and social services, which were once integral parts of the system of "embedded liberalism", more and more groups of citizens find themselves on the brink of poverty and even destitution.

club and a little personally This is my regime now. I wake up broken. I have two hours. I wash up, get ready, eat and head back to the club. It feels like there is no other life at all. Club, dream, club, dream. There is no other reality. There is only a long night, a bar counter, girl talk, naked bodies, male guests, alcohol, drunken glances, the darkness of winter, fatigue. I'm like a vampire. I go to bed - it’s dark, I get up - it’s dark. I don't see the light.

“Analyzing from a position of despair is the only correct approach.” Boris Groys Photo: Masha Demyanova Boris Groys is an art theorist and professor at New York University. Born in East Berlin, lived in the Soviet Union until 1981, then emigrated to Germany. Currently lives in New York. In a conversation with art historian Boris Klyushnikov, Groys analyzes the modern era of the Internet and social fragmentation, when art inevitably turns into a psychodrama of self-contemplation.

#Vitukhnovskaya_Dzhemal_interview HEYDAR JEMAL Heydar Jemal died. Perhaps it was this man among the radical traditionalists who seemed the most intelligent, the most complete and the most worthy. Much smarter than his soft-bodied comrades. Without in any way sharing his leftist or Islamist views, I can still state that we are talking about a real exclusive philosophy here.