The talk about the “society of the spectacle” has missed the moment when, from a concept that gives a new perspective, it has filled the entire space of thought and has become for its critics what Lacan calls the “Big Other” - a set of discourses from which the only subject draws his speech.

A story from 1979 that my grandfather put into words in 2004. The forest indifferently chews the prison: the paths along which the guards wandered are hidden in the grass; the doors rot in the undergrowth; Only the mailboxes shine persistently, creating the illusion of a conversation on equal terms - with free people. Dense and scary text; an old-fashioned exercise in politicizing the image of a ruin - if you have not encountered this before, see the experience of Georg Simmel .

This is not a serious scientific article or even an essay, so we are free not to go into the investigation of what an occult detective is, who its ancestors are, what is the chronology, why in Britain, what social cataclysms and literary collisions caused this subgenre to its gloomy existence, what is weird, why it was better before, which authors wrote what, etc. We'll get down to business right away, with your permission. Hint: Don't even try to repeat this in your everyday life. * * * 1.

Sergei Kasich spoke to Andrey Morozov about the features of sound art in Russia, the evolution of pop music and technological art, and also recorded an ontology mix in anticipation of his participation in the project “Geometry of the Present” in the space of the former GES-2 power plant. Photo via Electromuseum AM: First of all, tell us how your journey as a sound artist began? How did you even decide to do this and at what point did you self-identify as a sound artist?

This text [1] owes its appearance to the fact that after watching the film by K. Serebrennikov [2], I had the opportunity to read a lot of reviews, although of course not all, and I did not find in them an understanding of this thing that would coincide with mine. Therefore, I, not being a film expert or film critic, nevertheless decided to take the floor. Who is the key character? K.

Of course, neo-Marxism is gaining popularity, it cannot be ignored, and it is impossible to resist. Marx defines alienation as separation from the subject, the process and the results of his activity, in which the process and results of activity become beyond the control of the subject and even dominate him. Marx himself identifies 4 types of alienation: from the labor process, from the product of labor, from one’s own essence and people from each other.

Why are we so afraid of old age and why we shouldn’t do it, even if, and especially if, you are a woman. If women live longer than men, as statistics in many countries insist on, then the world needs it. This means that the world (as a system of society) has found a way to communicate something, using the decrepit female body as a communication channel, delicately combining madness, wisdom, strength and weakness in its peak resonant overflow.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine, 1932 I “I’m forced to write for Achilles... or for Zhertrut!... I don’t give a damn about both of them! on them!... and on everyone in general!... on all these dirty, narrow-minded bastards who only think about how to grab more!... I put it on them all!... bitches!” Louis-Ferdinand Céline is a French writer, author of autobiographical novels in a unique style that brought its inventor fame as a reformer of French literature.