John Robb is the leader of the English post-punk band The Membranes and a respected journalist from Manchester who has contributed to major British music publications: NME, Melody Maker and Sounds.

Language is mistaken when it assumes that a judgment is possible that is the opposite of the proposition “there is something that can be observed.” It “seems” to him that if we say “there is something that cannot be observed,” then this will be a completely normal statement. Alas, in this case the language knows no better. Something can be observed, but it is no longer possible to be unobservable and at the same time be something.

On December 17, the Scene / Szena gallery opened the exhibition of Alexey Taruts “Ultramut of Twelve Languages”, the text for the exhibition was written by Andrey Shental. In the commentary: reconstruction of the life of one monument, discussions about identity based on victory, and about the bodily basis of any power. Relief from the Triumphal Gate, courtyard of the Museum of Architecture. 1814. Wooden arch at Tverskaya Zastava, a living Russian soldier returns from the war.

Not long ago, several articles with such headings were published in magazines. So Kommersant wrote about it. In particular, the famous Stanford prison experiment of F. Zimbardo in 1971 began to be called fraud. It was included in textbooks, a film was made about it (even two!) and books were written, it allows us to explain collective manifestations of extreme cruelty: the genocide in Rwanda, crimes against civilians in the Vietnam War, the Holocaust.

Ivan Ivanovich died. Like most people who die, he did not immediately realize that he had died. I woke up as usual, boiled coffee, and logged into Facebook using my old hand-held gadget. And froze. Because Facebook first of all reported that Ivan Ivanovich, this night, suddenly and unexpectedly, unexpectedly and untimely, died, that is, he died, that is, he is no longer alive, went completely offline and other slippers in the corner, flippers, in the box, finita la.