Recently, headliner talks “ In Search of a New Hero ” were held at Izvestia Hall, during which experts and nominees for the “Headliner of the Year” award discussed how to be opinion leaders and whether one should strive for this. The tone of the discussion was set by the moderator, Lenta.ru special correspondent Natalya Kochetkova.

From March 14 to 21, in the program of the FORMA Lab theater laboratory, the play “Individuals and Atomic Proposals” will be shown by the leader of the Russian theatrical avant-garde, founder of the independent association “ Transformer ” Vsevolod Lisovsky. In one short text below about why the theater turned to the ideas of Bertrand Russell, and why it is interesting. What are “Individuals and Atomic Propositions”?

Anna Uddenberg. Disconnect. 2018. Courtesy gallery Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin Why do we love watching Hollywood movies so much? The majority will probably immediately object that they do not love and have never loved, but even for them, I think, it will be difficult to deny the power of this guilty pleasure in such moments when you need to cheer yourself up and at the same time relax.

Artist Valentin Korzhov materializes nebulas and voids in his art objects. His personal exhibition «Being and time» has been opened in «Ekaterina» Сultural Foundation. Valentin Korzhov — How did you realize you’re an artist? — It was a typical «I want». An internal desire, an intention. I urgently felt the need to paint the imaginary world, to dive into it while creating. I create pieces of art, so technically I am an artist.

“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself. I am large - I contain multitudes." Walt Whitman There are a number of professions that are closely related to language, speech, and words. Within this group, we can distinguish those in which the main thing is to convince your contact partner of something. There are also those whose essence is to express oneself with the help of linguistic space (perhaps even symbolic, symbolic).

You think youre real? Don`t tell me that you are, I saw you tremble, felt your fear And gathered pieces of your heart. I stood behind you like a shadow And kept your heavy golden crown. I witnessed ocean getting shallow With every tear that`s fallen down. I didn`t know that you are human - You looked so strong and insensate, But loneliness that burnt your soul Revealed your hidden beaten grace

This text is part of a speech given at the Poesis-Polis-Praxis conference in honor of Professor Georg Witte, held in Berlin in 2017. I wrote it the day before the show and haven't looked back at it since. Two weeks ago, one of the conference participants wrote me a letter asking about the fate of the report and the opportunity to read what came out of it. After re-reading it, I noticed that the oblivion to which I myself had consigned this text was organic to its theme.