EDITOR'S FOREWORD "White Magic" is a little-known philosophical essay written by British cultural theorist Mark Fisher in the 1990s for the online critical criminology project CritCrim.org. In this early text, Fisher uses the term "white magic" to describe the ability of art and culture to bring into being new possibilities and fill a perceived emptiness or social vacuum.

In a medieval scriptorium, a monk, when copying a manuscript, inevitably made mistakes, added marginalia in the margins, adaptations to the local dialect or his own “hallucination.” As a result, the original text was not simply copied, but multiplied and, although similar to the original one, branched, turning into a family of texts of the same kind. Today, Reels and TikTok videos, sound trends and meme formulas do exactly the same thing.

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"Don't touch me! Don't ask anything! And don't say anything! Stay with me!" – Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot After the era of "Ukrainian poetic cinema" of the 1960s and 1970s, there came a cinema that did not rhyme, that did not hide itself in images, that was itself from head to toe, and that was inseparably attached to reality. And the most spectacular, the most radical post-poetic film, in my opinion, is Kira Muratova's film "Asthenic Syndrome".

[from a series of my dialogues with AI, without additional editing or simplification] [LillyCat] Tell me about Karma. How did this concept take root in Western and Eastern thinking? Compare with Retribution in this context. [AI] Karma is a fundamental concept of Eastern religions and philosophies, meaning the law of cause and effect, according to which a person’s actions determine his fate and the nature of subsequent rebirths.

“Aren’t you ashamed? By the way, our army is bending over backwards to minimize civilian casualties!” - they were offended. “Just look at these leaflets that we are distributing before bombing residential buildings! In Arabic!!! Anything to let people leave!

The country of enormous opportunities that was America in the 20th century - Prohibition, the war overseas, the flourishing of the gambling business and the entertainment industry - provided the mafia, which was starting from scratch, with unique opportunities, allowing it to move from street racketeering to control over companies, entire industries, and then government authorities. As the mafia expanded and became richer, the appetites of the mafia also grew.

The “cascade of harm” effect describes a situation where helping (or harming) one creature indirectly leads to various types of harm to many other creatures. The effect highlights the complexity of altruistic planning: the consequences of helping are often difficult to predict, and good intentions can result in increased suffering. What does it mean to help others? Simply put, helping others means choosing something they want, or something the consequences of which they want.

Proximity range embrace kiss the distance that appears and expands between us at the moment when your hand when your eyes ………………………………. my skin craves touch at times her entire inner side, invisible to the eye, blazes and ignites setting fire to the consciousness and all the hidden thoughts, feelings, casts of memories, death masks of fantasies that are no longer …………………………………….

Photo by Mikhail Alekseev Negative emotions in the information field, provoked by the recent film adaptation of the story about Kolobok and/or the strategy for its promotion, have highlighted a number of paradigmatic problems. First of all, the very fact that they “took up fairy tales” is important. Why, one might ask, “Kolobok”? Perhaps it is enough that this is a folk tale, and therefore ours, and we need to regularly update ours in order to remain ourselves.

Critical review of the book "Through the Looking-Glass Times: Boris Lyatoshynskyi's Choice" (Iryna Tukova, Olena Korchova) NB! The remarks concern only the musicological, historical and interpretive side of the issue. Criticism does not apply to the personal and human qualities of female authors. I express my sincere respect to Iryna Tukova and Elena Korchova for their great and important work.

The Journal of Political Ideologies published a systematic review of 156 peer-reviewed studies on technopopulism. The authors systematize how scientific literature uses the very concept of technopopulism and what signs it associates with this phenomenon. First of all, there are two different understandings in research of what “techno” means in technopopulism. 1️⃣ Technocratic populism.

— Can a small group qualitatively reflect the composition, experience and characteristics of the entire society? 👥 Microcosm is a small statistically constructed sample that reproduces the population structure thanks to a controlled random selection procedure. 1️⃣ The size of the population does not determine the required sample size. It seems logical to assume that if a society is huge, then in order to find out the opinions of all its members, a huge sample must be needed.

The country of enormous opportunities that was America in the 20th century - Prohibition, the war overseas, the flourishing of the gambling business and the entertainment industry - provided the mafia, which was starting from scratch, with unique opportunities, allowing it to move from street racketeering to control over companies, entire industries, and then government authorities. As the mafia expanded and became richer, the appetites of the mafia also grew.

What if we exaggerate Leibniz's Monadology, radicalize it to the extreme, or go even further? Let's imagine for a moment that reality is a collection of individualistic centers of experience, within which separate worlds arise, as well as space, time, the body, personal history, objects, cities, and other people. The person himself inside such a world can be a local avatar of some more fundamental carrier.