Chilly days arrived in October. The gloomy rains reminded us that beyond them was a time of slush and bone-chilling cold. The smell of rain haunted Uzawa Youko and awakened in her a longing for everything warm, soft, living, of which now only a vague memory remained. - It’s been pouring so much already!... Youko stopped and opened her umbrella. Under the pale blue orb, her vision became misty and she smiled like a vestal. - You remember, dear. Let me guess. The rain smells like those puppies.

How did the banishment of magic and animism lead to today's sense of lost future? Why is it necessary to go beyond humanity to participate in any fundamental emancipatory project? Oksana Timofeeva, a philosopher and teacher at the European University in St. Petersburg, offers answers to these questions in her essay for e-flux magazine.

“I lost my glasses, and myopia makes me an optimist” “I lost my glasses, and myopia makes me an optimist” Frederic Beigbeder Catch a big and big fish, preferably a very, very big one... It’s such a sleepless night. I feel those strings intertwined connecting me with you, and that’s why I wake up at night. I donate, saving you with the palms of my words, you give your experiences inside me for free, using kindness. Away with the night. I want a carefree morning...

Ad Marginem published the book Archeology of Media by German media theorist Siegfried Zielinski, a historical study of the interaction of technology, art and science, in which he proposes to reconsider the concept of media as “a complex of interacting complex technical and cultural systems” that emerged in the West in the second half of the 20th century.

At the end of August, the Publishing House of the Tsiolkovsky bookstore published the book “Letters from a Sister” - an artistic and documentary story by the famous modern Russian writer, philosopher and historian Dmitry Evgenievich Galkovsky. Below is a short excerpt. My mother had two children: me and my younger sister. There was a seven-year difference between us, which in itself is a lot. But besides that, we grew up in completely different environments.