A man was dying in my row at the cinema. He coughed himself up so ardently. His companion, an elderly woman with curled, dyed hair, was phlegmatic about this. When the romance began to play, she leaned over to her husband and shared her guess about the author: it was from Mahler. During the credits, having sat through to the end, she leaned towards him a second time, not without self-satisfaction, to tell him that she had guessed right.

Illustration: Patryk Sroczyński [Adapted from McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality by Ronald Purser, published by Repeater Books on 9 July and available at guardianbookshop.com Original: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jun/14/the-mindfulness-conspiracy-capitalist-spirituality] It is sold as a force that can help us cope with the destructive effects of capitalism, but because of its inward focus, meditation can become the enemy of activism.

The endless crowds of people taking pictures, simply occupying the entire space in front of the attraction, are terribly infuriating, and led to an unexpected thought. It seems to me that having the opportunity to take photographs, people began to think less. Nowadays, when a person gets to the next significant place, there is a clear sequence of actions consisting of one whole step - he needs to take a photo. This is a checkpoint.

There are three serious plays that metaphorically explore the genesis of fascism. One of them (I’m starting not in chronological, but in logical order) is Ionesco’s play “Rhinoceros”. The author himself insisted that this is a metaphor for the origin of fascism. In this surreal play, the inhabitants of the city are one by one transformed into rhinoceroses, and if there is a temptation in this transformation, it is the temptation of strength, health and the abandonment of moral standards.

2020 Continuation of the text describing an artistic practice that combines performative and ideomotor actions aimed at understanding and revealing the problems of the concept "Gap between image and reality". To analyze the process of formation and transformation, the artist turns to the ontopsychology of A. Meneghetti and the onto-epistemology of the "new materialists".

Caucasians do not like Mongoloids, and Mongoloids do not like Negroids. Australoids don't like anyone. Blacks hate whites, and whites don't like blacks and narrow-eyed people. Once upon a time, redskins did not like pale-faced people, and pale-faced people did not like redskins. The poor do not like the rich, and the rich do not like the poor. Nobody likes the poor at all. The middle class doesn't like either of them. The ancient Romans did not like the ancient Greeks.

Instead of introducing From my previous text: .ideologicality originates in lack, dissatisfaction and desire for something different; in a word - in an indefinite desire. But the key element and problem is the ability to move from the current unpleasant situation to the desired one. The ideologist's speech then replaces this dissatisfaction with recognizing the enemy by sight, and desire with a sacred duty.

Hemingway was lucky to live in Paris as a young man. He was friends with writers and artists, worked at a newspaper, drank bourbon, walked, loved his young wife... Then he wrote that “Paris is a holiday that is always with you...” I was luckier. I lived in Mytishchi in my youth. I was friends with Gundosy and Krot, drank beer, traded something, loved Verka... For Verka’s sake, I even once broke a window, showing my love... And then they wrote that “...