Pitch darkness consists of pitches, so many of them that they penetrate into the blood and drive you crazy, and you go blind, and sneak through this darkness, putting your hands in front of you in the hope that there is no abyss ahead.

In the fifth lecture of the course “(Post)Colonial Studies” within the framework of the Tashkent-Tbilisi project, Professor of the University of Tartu Vyacheslav Morozov examines the features of the emergence and transformation of the imperial order in Northern Eurasia. Market types. Woman riding a bull. "Turkestan Album" by Kaufman Was the Russian Empire special? What was special about her? And can the Soviet Union be called an empire?

So. Some people argue that magic is impossible in our time, since there are no carriers of it, that is, witches, and the practice of it, they say, has already gone out of fashion. Indeed, how many witches have you seen on the streets lately, the ones who run around on broomsticks and scare everyone with their scary faces without makeup? I would agree that it is extremely small and insufficient, since the cat has cried for evidence and facts. Not even a cat, but a small kitten.

The path is yours if you meet doubles on it. * The black square is a human template painted over by Malevich. * Raskolnikov painted over the template of a man, mistaking it for an axe. * If you don’t inward yourself every day, you will become a spiritual homeless person. * Life is not a game, but a game. * Learn to turn a blind eye to the obvious. * When people call you a common name, it’s a typik. * You shouldn't play with cards that you weren't dealt.

Part one Part two Incidents and events In the real world, many different changes are constantly happening. People move in space, are born and die, meet and part, interact with inanimate objects; Some processes also occur within us: from chemical to psychological. Many transformations also occur with objects. In general, “everything flows, everything changes.” But the human brain tends to focus attention only on some processes that are important from its point of view.

Text from the Locus community zine “Hate, Philosophy and Social Networks.” Print information can be found here Hate is intentional, social, and pays dividends. This is the basic intuition with which my interest in the problem begins. I will try to imagine hatred as the work of attention machines by analogy with the machines of desire of Deleuze and Guattari: I will derive it not from the subconscious or physiology, but from the mechanisms of work of modern capital.

The Garage Museum's publishing program included the book Open Systems. Experiences in artistic self-organization in Russia. 2000-2020" . This is a one-of-a-kind directory of independent artistic initiatives throughout Russia over the past 20 years - the result of research by the scientific department, which lasted 5 years, included exhibitions, collecting an archive, and now a book.

Wendy Jim. Medium #2. 2020. Group project GHOSTHOUSE, curator Anna Veile Kjar. Den Frie Center of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen. Photo: David Stjernholm Should art take care of us? Should we benefit from it? Should art make our lives, the lives of the people around us, and the reality around us better?

What is “personality”? Floor? Mind? Feelings? According to the usual idea, it is the mind. The struggle with the mind is understood as a struggle with oneself. But it would be more accurate to say that personality is not gender, not feeling, not mind, but an internal order for which all abilities are only servants, tools, building material. He uses all of the above at his own discretion; owns, not possesses.