The end of the good world
30.05.2022
If only we could take it out on someone. If we could believe we were serving something or going somewhere. But what did they leave us with? A happy tomorrow? The great European market? We have nothing.
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Beyond the weak male
09.07.2020
Rivers of words have been written about the decadence of our western society. This progressive erosion of values, ideas and institutions has been guessed since the beginning of the last century.
The Concern for Beauty in the South
04.02.2020
In the last essay, we spoke only briefly about the Southern commitment to beauty, which is in contradistinction to the general American culture of ugliness. This commitment was not one of the abstract and theoretical kind, however. It manifest
Combining breakthrough technologies with the Russian cultural code
9. October 2019 - 22:39
"This is a grand initiative that is able to rally around itself outstanding and venerable artists and completely unknown.This is a huge creative laboratory.
Oswald Spengler: An Introduction
03.10.2019
Constantly described as a “prophet of decline,” Oswald Spengler deserves to be read today before all as the author of a deeply original philosophy of history, which perhaps doesn't permit us to automatically predict the future (how would that be p
The Return of Belle Epoch Hysteria
17.04.2017
Sigmund Freud’s project of psychological enlightenment seems to have failed. For his struggle to tame the 19th century plague of hysteria could well have come to nothing because it is back with a vengeance.
9 new cultural sites added to World Heritage List
16. July 2016 - 14:00
The World Heritage Committee on Friday added nine new cultural sites to the prestigious World Heritage List.
