Attitudes towards plants range from utilitarian to aesthetic; some endow them with a soul. Islam notes the main thing - they worship God: “The whole world is a place for worshiping Allah, and each creation glorifies the Creator in its own way.

Alfred North Whitehead The Perm publishing house Hyle Press, specializing in modern philosophy and theory, published a book by American philosopher Stephen Shaviro “Beyond the Criteria. Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze and Aesthetics" . This is the first independent publication of Shaviro’s works in Russian, which until now has been represented only by a number of journal and online publications of his articles [1].

In 1998, I was very pleased to have had a small but very interesting walk through the spring tomato beds. And that's what was interesting there. As you know, the best predecessors for tomatoes are legumes, cucumber, perennial herbs, onions, carrots, and if anyone is thinking of planting them after nightshade, then punch him in the face. So here it is. Only thanks to N.A.

The morning of the second day began with a wonderful conversation with very extraordinary people, and how could it be otherwise, the very format of the festival-competition implies acquaintance, live communication, healthy debate and the search for truth. In the afternoon, we had to visit for the first time the small stage of the Red Torch Theater and watch the production of Oleg Lipovetsky, who is familiar to me firsthand, Oleg, the director of our Kirov “Juliet Survived”.

The Freud-Lacan School of Psychoanalysis and the Sigmund Freud Dream Museum are pleased to invite you to Lorenzo Chiesa's lecture “ On Teaching and University Discourse .” Date and time : June 4, 2018, 19.00-21.00. Address : Museum of Dreams of Sigmund Freud, St. Petersburg, Bolshoy pr. PS, 18A. Participation fee : 1000 rub. Registration via link . If you would like to listen to the lecture remotely, please register using the “online participation” option.

Yesterday our radio launched the Global Zomia project, dedicated to DIY ethnography and non-academic initiatives that work with traditional and local music from different regions of the world. In the first issue, co-founder of the Ored Recordings label Bulat Khalilov spoke about the French music enthusiast and collector Laurent Jeannot, known as Kink Gong . Like many DIY ethnographers, he is far from academic anthropology and folkloristics.

The Freud-Lacan School of Psychoanalysis and the Sigmund Freud Dream Museum are pleased to invite you to a course of lectures by Lorenzo Chiesa “ Lacan and Foucault ”. Dates and times : May 31 - June 2, 2018, 19.00-21.00; June 3, 2018, 17.00-21.00. Please note that there will be two course lectures on June 3 (Sun). Address : Museum of Dreams of Sigmund Freud, St. Petersburg, Bolshoy pr. PS, 18A. Participation cost : 5000 rub. Registration via link .

Origins The city, from the very beginning, was not just a place where people lived and worked. From the moment of their formation, the first cities became the focus of new ideas, technological discoveries, cultural values, as well as a conductor and point of exchange for the baggage of human thoughts and knowledge. “Big cities are natural generators of diversity and generous incubators of new beginnings and ideas of all kinds.” (Jane Jacobs).