Social anthropologist and thanatologist Sergei Mokhov publishes the micropress journal The Archeology of Russian Death and has written the book The Birth and Death of the Funeral Industry , and in his course for the Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences at MMU, he will teach students how to be critical of conversations about death. In an interview with Sigma editor Konstantin Koryagin, he explains why death is becoming the lens for discussing the problems of life today.

An interview with a psychiatrist, profiler and teacher at the Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences of the Moscow Medical University Alexey Filatov about why people constantly lie, how easy it is to be an honest person, whether it is possible to recognize deception and whether we will all soon find ourselves under the hood. Is it true that everyone lies? To answer this question, you need to decide what a lie is.

Venice is crowded, especially now in May, when the new Biennale project has opened. Making your way along the canals and embankments, you go into all the open doors, behind which, as a rule, there is art, either flashed by a post in your feed, or as an analogy in memories from St. Petersburg.

On June 15 at 18:00 in the MMU building on Leningradsky Prospekt, the art project to create corpse objects for the play “In Search of Hamlet” will continue, in which live actors interact with mannequins made of adhesive tape. Over the course of three months, corpse objects are created at the Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Spectate publishes an essay by Ivan Streltsov, in which he draws parallels between the historical avant-garde and modern musical culture, the symphonic turbulence of Cabaret Voltaire and the fragments of subcultural communities. Dead Kennedys concert Contemporary art is inspired by the avant-garde, but turning to it has become just a simple reenactment, archaeology. It cannot reproduce and does not see the very situation of the avant-garde today.

The life path of Anatoly Lupinos is full of Nietzschean overcoming and Jungerian adventure. Poet, dissident and combatant - all this, to one degree or another, describes the nature of Lupinos' activities. He could absolutely desperately walk along the corridors of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, make friends with presidents, organize military operations and at the same time, as if nothing had happened, communicate with the homeless on the Maidan.

About Teodor Currentzis's performance at the Acht Brücken contemporary music festival in Cologne The combination of works in Currentzis's concert programs rarely raises questions. At a performance in Cologne with his leader orchestra SWR Sinfonieorchester at the festival Acht Brücken ("Eight Bridges") The choice of essays was also not obvious. Theodore focused on Russian composers: Kurlyandsky, Nevsky and Rachmaninov.

Architect Daria Nasonova develops indie video games in her free time, and takes a course at the Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences of the Moscow Medical University “Designing virtuality. How to create a cyber city? combines his two passions. In an interview with Maria Dubova, she explained what exactly urbanists can learn from games. First, tell us how you connect indie video games with urbanism? Indie is not a genre, but a way of development.