Fifty years ago, a music festival held in the American outback on the land of a random farmer ended because other venues refused to host it. As they would say now - a perfect non-format. This festival featured groups, many of which the visitors themselves knew little about. The guests were traveling not so much to see specific groups, and not even so much for the sake of music, but for the great American dream of the 1969 model.

Morning. To begin to become aware of your land means to find yourself in a dark cave without a hint of knowledge about its duration, the presence of a way out and any other signs of white light. In fact, everything worldly consists of this matter, everything down to the gesture. There are unique people who turn the earth into fertile soil, but in this world there is no escape from it. We came from it, and we will go into it. Everything else is dreams of will.

Everyone knows that it is the ability to hold memories together that creates a unique human personality. However, we are not only what we remember, but also what we choose to forget. The histories of countries and peoples, like personal histories, imply the need to constantly choose: what will remain in memory and what should be removed from it.

According to Lyotard, in the era of great narratives, sociocultural dominants arose due to the legitimization of a certain type of rationality: the legislator created a semantic framework for hierarchically structured linguistic canons.

Chapter one When people ask me how my life has changed since the birth of my daughter, I answer: I learned to play the drums. This is how I do it: I take the laundry basin and turn it over on the floor in front of Monka. I muffle one half with a diaper folded in half and start banging with black maracas. Everyone is absolutely delighted. But it’s impossible to do this all day long, especially when it’s so hot: attention begins to float like an iceberg of butter in a frying pan.

Paradoxically, everything that makes a person alive is concentrated in looking into the question of understanding death. The only thing is that for quite a long time I am no longer sure where my tension is in this understanding. One might think that all the mythologems and concepts on the topic of the existence of death have already been expressed by the brilliant minds of humanity.

By the ocean, along the foamy shore wave, I have a dream, dear Theodore. Your cloak, entwined with the icon of snake fighting, still hangs on the same plaque in your house. You already understand that birth is doomed to glory, bypassing peace. On the day when the dry temple lily blooms, the winds of the Venetian shipyards and the bonfires of the desecrated goddesses will converge into one thing.

Quentin Tarantino on an excursion to the Moscow Kremlin Museums, August 2019 A banality escaping from everything that can generate sound: “Quentin Tarantino is the most Russian director.” There are many reasons for this saying: Tarantino’s love for Russian literature (and whoever remembers the incident in Peredelkino), the themes of the films and the philosophical approach that make the director a cult figure in Russia (killing Hitler and an avenging mother are incredibly familiar themes, and

The fate of your project depends on how seriously you take its promotion. It is extremely important to have the talents of a good marketer. It’s not enough just to be a talented designer; you need to have several important skills at once to work effectively. This is especially true in the field of interior design. Just imagine how much you need to master to get a good result.

Fragment of a conversation by Elena Smirnova, a graduate student at the University. Denis Diderot (Paris VII), with Natalia Avtonomova, translator of “Words and Things” by Michel Foucault, from an issue of the Logos magazine dedicated to the French philosopher. As Natalia Avtonomova emphasizes [1], extremely few translations of modern Western philosophy were published in the Soviet Union, and each of such publications became an event. Natalia was directly involved in one of these events.

Deadline: September 15, 2019. Open studios, launched in 2017, develop the New Names direction of the Winzavod Foundation for the Support of Contemporary Art. Participation in the project is an opportunity for aspiring talented artists to immerse themselves in the Moscow art system, meet its insiders - gallerists and artists - at closed meetings, and also take their first steps in the creative and commercial spheres under the guidance of professionals.

Essay: a genre of philosophical, literary criticism, journalistic and fiction - a short composition on some subject. a particular issue, written in a free, individual manner of presentation (Wikipedia).