Rech#port presents to your attention a selection of poems by Vladimir Ermolaev. Vladimir Ermolaev was born in the city of Ivanovo, Russia. Since 1985 he has lived in Riga. By education he is a pianist and philosopher. Poems, prose and translations were published in periodicals in Russia, Latvia, and the USA. Author of six poetry collections. The book “Tributes and Homages” (2011) was shortlisted for the Andrei Bely Prize.

We live in a time of crisis. This is a cultural crisis affecting all areas of life. This is a human crisis. We are talking about the degradation of man as a cultural, thinking, constructive, humane being and the emergence of a new type of person. Thinkers describe it from different angles. So, for example, Erich Fromm calls him a robot man (homo mechanicus), and Alexander Zinoviev calls him a Westernoid (a man of the Americanized Western civilization) and even a posthuman (after man).

Since everyone already knows that Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin proposed checking “Lolita” and “One Hundred Years of Solitude” for propaganda of pedophilia [1], I will also speak out. I advise the respected father archpriest, when checking for pedophilia, not to forget one book, where the heroine gave birth to a son about a year old... I think that all experts on the Middle East (where the action takes place) will agree: at the age of no later than 15 years. Moreover, it is unknown from whom.

If throughout history religion has acted as the dominant ideology, then starting from the New Age it recedes into the background. If the churches in the Christian world were the main organization of indoctrination, then in the twenty-first century they have receded into the background, despite the fact that the influence of religious organizations, be they churches or sects, remains to a significant extent.

The American West, or “Wild West,” has always been associated in the collective imagination with hope for a better life. This is Eldorado or, as the Americans call it, “The land where milk rivers flow among the banks of jelly.” But real life in the American countryside is very different from what we see in the famous Farm Security Administration photographs taken during the Great Depression. Commissioned by the Amon Carter Museum, Richard Avedon began photographing modern society.

The role of alternative culture in the sustainable development of a modern city (using the example of Berlin) The article summarizes the information received by the author during the international school on sustainable development in Berlin, an internship at BTK Berlin University of Art & Design, participation in an architectural workshop under the slogan DIY+DIT (“do it yourself”); and is also based on independent research and a competition project for one of the developing alternative zones of