When we talk about queer music, we always need to clarify what exactly we mean. This small moodboard by Andrey Parshikov is divided into chapters, according to the various definitions that can be given to this, in fact, non-existent concept. The starting point for this material was the musical, public and activist practice of Terre Thaemlitz .

Given the overwhelming concentration of absurdity into which we plunge every time, including, for example, federal channels, it is strange that dystopia has not yet become the most popular genre in Russian literature.

Speculative poetics connects language based on the structuralist philosophy of recent decades with a modern interest in ontology. Speculative thought (whether Hegel, Benjamin or, more recently, Quentin Meillassoux) calls for self-determination in its practice in language.

The biography of the poet, philologist and public figure Thomas Venclov (I don’t know if this Lithuanian surname is inclined) was revealed to me only from the weighty volume “Borderland” (St. Petersburg, 2015) of his journalism for many years.

Once upon a time, “Foreign Literature” was not foreign, but International - at meetings of senior party officials, the problems of the world revolution and how to go to conquer India were discussed. And before the revolution, foreign literature was translated very enthusiastically - our magazine may well consider itself the plenipotentiary successor of the “Bulletin of Foreign Literature”.

Finnish musician Olli Aarni is known to fans of ambient and lo-fi aesthetics, but recently field recordings can increasingly be found in his field of interest. The new box contains three cassettes, each 10 minutes long, containing hydrophone recordings made in the waters of Finland and Norway. It is worth saying that the signal from the hydrophones was recorded on a Sony cassette recorder from the late 70s.