The paintings on the left and right are titled, respectively, My First Sermon (1863) and My Second Sermon (1864). They were painted by one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Sir John E...
Somehow I have been hooked on the pictures of “cute celebrity kids“, currently featuring on MSN.com. The kids of all ages, forms, genders and colours attend events, matches, are taken for ...
Я не должна сказать, как дорог ты. Это загадка даже для меня, Кто должен лучше знать. И тайны той Открыть я не посмею глубины. Когда был май, любила я тебя; Казалось мне, мы вечность обрели. Я там был...
I pondered a lot on the problem I have with identifying myself or other people in one way or another. The generic “identity-search”, to which we are so often subjected these days, is usual...
I‘ve just read and went through Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph , picking up many valuable quotes. In the few of them below Arbus discusses the intriguing gap between intention and effect, as...
I have previously been to three print publications (all in Russia), and in England I spent two years at the BBC Manchester newsroom. The impression of the vibe has not effaced, but in comparison to al...
Manchester Sculpture, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. It is a kind of miracle that I went past this composition many times in the five years I’ve been in Manchester, but it was only ...
Back in 1946 (that’s 62 years ago) George Mikes, the author of the undying classic of How To Be An Alien, in the chapter titled How Not To Be Clever, observed, with the usual for the book irony,...
We’ve had it all: Slavoj Zizek’s live talk during his “tour of the North”, the audio extracts I used in my account of the lecture, there were materials at the Subaltern Studies...
In the pictures you see, on the left, me on my first day at school in 1987, and on the right – me during my teaching practice at one of Moscow schools in 2001 (the practice was mandatory for all...