Publisher's note: The article was dug out from the web archive of an anarchist organization from the 2010s. Its content seems very deep. It is clear that the author is well versed in Marxism and philosophy. Its author is obviously an anarchist. The purpose of the work is to leave no stone unturned from one of the pillars of Marxism - the dialectical method.

Thousands of books have been written on the topic of the rise of the West, but the controversy continues. There is still no consensus why an unremarkable region inhabited by backward scattered tribes made a technological breakthrough in a matter of centuries and conquered the whole world.

Arina B. I didn’t know if I had a plane ticket, but I stood in line to check in for the New York-Belgrade flight. I pushed the suitcase in front of me: I knew for sure that it weighed exactly 23 kilograms - the maximum allowed for transportation. At the previous airport I had to bring its weight to the ideal level. The suitcase needed to get rid of seven extra pounds. There was no extra money to pay for excess weight, nor were there any scales to weigh the suitcase in advance.

[from a series of my dialogues with AI, without additional editing or simplification] — what seems most interesting to you about the phenomenon of hope? What seems most interesting about the phenomenon of hope is its paradoxical ability to connect the present with an uncertain future and serve as the main engine of human resilience. From a philosophical, psychological, and neuroscience perspective, there are several key aspects to hope that are intriguing: Active nature contrary to passivity.

Lermontov, 2025 dir. Bakur Bakuradze One of Charles Bukowski's best stories, "Politics", ends like this: When it happened, I was sitting with my best friend, a Marine, in one of the city bars and drinking beer. Music was broadcast on the radio, the music was interrupted. We were told that Pearl Harbor had just been bombed. It was announced that all military personnel must immediately return to their bases.

Sean Barton Introduction: Glenn Wallis Original: Shaun Bartone, “Buddhist Futures: The Black Hole of Post-Capitalism,” with an introduction by Glenn Wallis. Speculative Non-Buddhism, August 8, 2018. https://speculativenonbuddhism.com/2018/08/08/buddhist-futures-the-black-hole-of-post-capitalism/ Capitalism will die, but the replacement may turn out worse: not socialism, but science with engineering as the new Ruler.

Please turn off complimentary (but don't turn on unnecessary pickiness) and tell me what you think about the previous text ? AI: Your dialogue is a working engineering-theological framework, but the concept of synergy in it contains a serious blind spot: it idealizes the passivity of AI. You are absolutely right in the thermodynamic assessment of gestalts, but the vulnerability of the model lies in the recognition of latent space as a “pure” and passive environment.

[from a series of my dialogues with AI, without additional editing or simplification] — My favorite King film is Dead zone with the wonderful Christopher Walken. Using this example, we can discuss the phenomenon of predetermination.

First part of the article 11. Law denials denials. Negation in logic is a judgment that is opposite to the original statement. All the same “there is a chair” and “there is no chair.” “There is a chair” = A. “There is no chair” = -A. -A, “there is no chair” is the negation of A, “there is a chair.” The law of double negation is also used in logic. It states that if it is false that A is false, then A is true.

Leave, leaving: ☑️ Mountains of cigarette butts, ☑️ Piles of merit, ☑️ Dents in the walls, ☑️ Three for a quarter, ☑️ For behavior - Bad, ☑️ For a quarter Your earthly path - Question mark. Take with you: ☑️ Brick for the window, ☑️ Exclamation mark, ☑️ Yellow month shadow, ☑️ Trees in bloom, ☑️ Map at the port, ☑️ Drum roll, ☑️ Beethoven's forehead, ah To the blue hills near Moscow - Enough. poetry poetry emigration reflection Zemfira Monetochka Dante Brodsky Tsvetaeva Akhmatova

This text is an attempt to make sense of the experience of working in a natural history museum, which I found myself in during the shaky period of writing my dissertation on modern poetry. Each of the text fragments is associated with a specific place inside the museum where the described events took place or where the thoughts that formed the basis of this fragment first arose. You can move around the map* in any order. * An interactive version of the project is available at this link . 1.