* Translation from English. Originally published as Author's Note. (Author is Dead. (Inside. (This Book.)))" in "A Palm. Fieldwork Irony”, 2025 (111 items) - a collection of amateurish essays about sand in the shoes of a graphic designer. I am the author of all texts in this book! It’s somehow too pompous and pretentious, isn’t it? But I wrote the lyrics. So what if I wrote the lyrics? Nowadays, anyone can write. Carrion argued that writers no longer write texts; writers create books.

- Excuse me, can I ask you? — timidly, almost kneeling, came from somewhere to the side. I reluctantly looked up from the phone, already knowing in advance both the question and who I would see a second after this question was asked. ... How boring it is, that you know in advance everything that they will ask you about, and why, and who all these boring people are without imagination and God’s spark.

I met Louise completely by accident and in a completely unoriginal way. I was looking online for someone with whom I could practice conversational French by correspondence, without much hope of finding anyone, and she answered me unexpectedly. So simply she wrote: “Bonjour, ca va?” and the like. Word by word, our communication in the “timid student - strict teacher” format quickly turned into informal communication on all possible topics, as if we had known each other for a hundred years.

Hikikomori (Japanese lit. "being in solitude"), or, colloquially, hikki [2] is a Japanese term denoting people who refuse social life and often strive for extreme degrees of social isolation and solitude due to various personal and social factors. True joy can only be found in solitude or in nature. All real misfortunes and troubles always come only from humans. Man is always the original problem. All the problems in the world are only caused by other people.

Traveling is a dustbuster that knocks out the dust of everyday life from the carpet of our lives. This carpet lies under our feet. We trample on it, walk on it barefoot and in dirty shoes, drop crumbs of our daily bread on it and spill the teas and coffee of our everyday life, sometimes the wine and vodka of our holidays. Our whole life passes on such a carpet. And that’s why it’s so important to ventilate and beat out this carpet from time to time. ...

Today we talked with our colleagues during a smoke break about the fact that not only did we choose a book field that is not very lucrative and not the most urgent, but we also had the opportunity to go to work for the first time in censorship times. six months ago I had to work with a book on military topics. then it went as if it were well-worn: “all gays must die,” “LGBTQ and feminism are pro-Western values ​​that are destroying great Russia,” “by the way, you can fuck children,” and so on.

Translation of an article by Rebecca Dilts "Strikes and Aftershocks: A PhD, Motherhood, and the Wildcat Strike at UC Santa Cruz" , published on Long-Haul Dea Trier Murch, illustration from Winter's Child (1987)© 2025 Society of Artists Rights (ARS), New York / VISDA In her article, Rebecca Dilts reflects on how an academic career collides with harsh social reality.

Essay about Dmitry Shandra’s book “Dense Black” In the fall of 2025, a poetry collection by Dmitry Shandra “ Island of Kramatorsk ” was published in the Non-Russian magazine. I read it, and then I read the book “Dense Black”, and I believe that it should be read by those who speak and/or write in Russian, and in this essay I will try to explain why.

Next, we consider one of Lacan's formulas on desire. Why do we want the Other? The subject will never be able to enjoy the Other, since the Other is the cause of desire. An interesting example on this topic is given from the Hitchcock film “Rear Window”. The main character doesn't really like his fiancée. But in the window opposite there is a murder that he and his fiancée want to solve.