"Panic Room" connects to the recordings of "being let be," but now it revolves not around a being (of Parmenides), but around non-being and the fear of it - a tremendous undertaking in the form of concentrated meditation. Yet, nothing concerns us more than this nothing. However, before the final, silently roaring space is reached, an "I" embarks on a journey, traversing the outer periphery of "views," where history and atmospheres are inscribed: "My Russia," seven cities that are read for their invisible layers. In Ulyanovsk, a Lenin becomes the "Hedgehog in the Fog" (the Soviet cartoon classic), in the workshops of Chelyabinsk, young poets work, and in Kaliningrad, Kant's brain is found full of maggots. The texts then become more oppressive and seek camouflage-like borrowings from "Jack the Ripper" to...