A universal man in an era of narrow specialization The Secret of the Medici It's interesting that all creation myths end with the creation of man, as if that were the ultimate goal. Man has always interested me. But not in any one of its dimensions: social, physical, historical, creative, psychological, etc. I'm interested in a holistic person. Homo Totus. For me, a person is not a room in a house, not an island in the ocean.

This post is for lesbians, but non-lesbians can also take part in them, say, to broaden their horizons. Once upon a time, at a feminist art exhibition, I noticed a group of visitors standing near photographs of women's pubic hair. Their giggling was mixed with indignation that they were not brought photographs of male genitalia to the exhibition.

Illustration by the author Our short interview with the Japanese artist Tomotoshi logically continues the theme of our conversation with Yoshinori Niwa, despite different approaches to the topic, both authors are true to their interest in the social aspects of art. As I wrote in my review of the Image Forum program, tomotoshi's work is very powerful in its variety of ways of revealing the habits of society.

The instability of everyday life is a good reason to remember the ethical systems of Hellenism. Our experience provides an opportunity to better understand the fascination of the Greeks and Romans with philosophical schools that offered programs for achieving happiness. At the same time, this is a chance to learn something about yourself, because even in the 21st century, ancient texts are able to answer vital questions.

We continue the section about physical media and their owners. The guest of the second episode is journalist Sergei Mezenov, author of the What Is That Sound telegram channel, currently writing for the Colta and Makers of Siberia websites. Especially for Postmusic, he recalls the stories of acquiring two CDs and one book. *** No. 1: Einstürzende Neubauten - Tabula Rasa (Mute Records, 1993) In my opinion, I got this disc even before the device on which I could listen to it.

He who knows everything will not recognize himself in the mirror. * Man is limitation inscribing itself into boundlessness. * Is a person a measure that pushes itself into dimensionlessness, or is a person a dimensionlessness that pushes itself into a framework? * The point is that there is a gap; everything that is verbalized is incorrect. * When you eat, you are dumber than you are. * Truth is an attempt to compare the incomparable. * Human – stuck to negative behavior patterns.

1. In modern Russia, the state, after its decline in the 1990s, took revenge and took away most of the assets that once belonged to it. These assets were the result of the forced labor of people locked within the borders of the Soviet Union in concentration camps.

Cover of the magazine "Egoist" (1992) Marguerite Duras Naked man from Place de la Bastille On the morning after the second night at the barricades, May 25, 1968 at five o'clock in the evening, a naked, completely naked man walks along Laquet Street and then Lyon Street. The crowd recoils and freezes. A man walks towards Place de la Bastille. He calmly navigates his way through charred barricades and melted tear gas bombs. Fallen trunks of plane trees. Torn out road signs.

The biggest misconception is that we have a lot of time ahead of us. It’s as if we are celestial beings, although we live under the blue sky and are open to it at any time of the day. Or, at worst, the inhabitants of the Caucasian steeps close to him, like bezoar goats, can grow up to a hundred years old without getting old. Nonsense. Today I was offered the role of the Savior. Well, we are no strangers to saving the world by putting our own lives on pause.

The text was first published in the magazine “Lacanalia” No. 37 (2021) One hot summer afternoon in Toulouse, having found refuge within the walls of the former Augustinian monastery, converted by the municipality into the city museum of fine arts, I discovered a painting in which one interesting detail attracted me. The painting belonged to the brush of a seventeenth-century master unknown to me and represented the position of Christ in the tomb.

“Gentlemen, gentlemen, completeness, completeness, gentlemen. So what happens is that everything we have now is already in the battery? How's this borscht? Excuse me, gentlemen, allow me. What is this? What is this, gentlemen, with us then? If something has passed, it has passed, and there is no need to return. Well, if we too become yesterday’s borscht, gentlemen. Well, let it be, just because it was cooked yesterday and therefore it’s not too bad.