Dystopia as a genre of literature (and later cinema) arose at the beginning of the twentieth century and quickly became popular. Authors of dystopias describe the worst possible futures, but always rely on current problems of social life. Even if the screen shows the distant future, the viewer can easily see their present in it.

The eighties of the 20th century remain uninterpreted to this day: by those who lived at that time - because of the imaginary evidence, by contemporaries - because of the imaginary proximity. At the same time, the study of this period seems to us to be an extremely interesting and complex matter. In this essay we will try to outline the fragile contours of such research, not a portrait, but a pencil sketch of the era.

Anna Rotaenko was born in the city of Grozny in 1990, lives and works in Moscow. She graduated from the School of Contemporary Art “Free Workshops” at MMSI, the Institute of Contemporary Art and the Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia. The artist works with new media, creating video art, performances and large-scale installations. He turns to the everyday life of a big city, looking for “cracks” in it, failures of the social norm.

The citadel is where everyone hid when the enemy entered the castle. Stronghold. Last StrongholdJennifer Egan The citadel is where everyone hid when the enemy entered the castle. Stronghold. Last stronghold Jennifer Egan Girls, if you want? And if immediately successful - modest? I want to! How to find a depraved nun? I want to! Complex, rarely embodied in one doll and in reality!

Mikhail Zaborov LESSONS OF A DEVIANT TO LACANE New, evolutionary psychoanalysis The sage Lacan said that sexual desire is always directed towards another. It seems self-evident: he wants her, she wants him, what is there to prove? And if I say that a bully, a deviant voyeur, teaches us something completely different, teaches us lessons about the harmony of the world, then it will sound like absurdity. And yet I choose absurdity.

Today in Vladimir the theater, the center of the cultural life of this city, burned down. No one was hurt, except for the unshakable glass-walled building itself. It is possible that the performances that I remember in this theater will no longer be able to be seen by anyone. Well, it’s time to post this text - a small portrait of the theater, which a couple of years ago was not accepted for publication in one magazine.

Comparison of the ideas of Descartes and Deseuze/Guattari When reading modern philosophical, Marxist and generally materialist texts, questions often arise about the relationship of their content with the content of previous philosophical ideas, with current politics and the scientific picture of the world.

New E... Art (NJK) is an association of artists, writers, directors and publishers, created in Ukraine in the city of Odessa at the beginning of 2013 for the development of the cultural environment. - one of the versions? “Dig a hole! Row the hole!” - the third joint project of the leaders of the NJK movement, for whom the Lychakiv cemetery became the final point of representation of the anthropological study of the city of MEZHIBOZH - the capital of the Hasidic kingdom.

Nowadays, selling and purchasing via the Internet have become an integral part of the existence of everyone who uses the Internet. If a person does not sell, he buys. But even if he has not yet bought or sold anything himself, he is constantly surrounded by various advertisements, each of which, in addition to the specific, also announces to him something general - the power of the market.

Artist Ilya Dolgov talks about the Kiev documentary art magazine “Noga” - a project that plays with the mixed materiality of languages ​​and forms of writing At the end of Russia's transcendental self-isolation, a shipment arrived from Kyiv - the first issue of the documentary fiction magazine Noga.