April 2011
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Edward Ericson JR. of the City Paper slanders...
[http://citypaper.com/news/no-excuse-1.1137778 - Here is a link to an article I read today in the city paper. Having spoken over the phone with Eddie before, I was furious at reading the ridiculous slander and decided to write a brief response which I also posted on the City Paper website. Anyone who has spoken with him I think can appreciate what a wonderful and bright person he is. I hope others...
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Three pieces on Vladimir Nabokov 2/3: Narration...
[To provide some context, these pieces were all written while auditing a class on Nabokov in the college I work at (auditing in the most informal sense…maybe stealing is more appropriate). Perhaps I will regale everyone with some tales of the autodidact in the classroom some time. I think my piece misses the very important Feminist angle, but I was trying to shoot for digging out some of the...
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selucha:
This is a short response I wrote to a Tumblr post from a dear follower of mine, which I thought I’d share here for folks to check out. I’d love your feedback and even your devastatingly critical arguments, as long as it’s kept in the spirit of camaraderie. I’ve made some minor formatting…
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Bergman, Hegel, and Feminism
[I apologize for the convoluted sentences and grammar in this post. I tend to gravitate toward vague or confusing sentences, but unlike this evening I usually have the help of a good editor. If you happen to have a penchant for editing feel free to contact me!] Constructing a method of morality is an ideological affair. When we consider the history of attempts at such a constitution, we end up...
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Happy Birthday to Lenin
Today is the birthday of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Владимир Ильич Ленин), a controversial figure even on the left. Where as the majority of opinion has been reduced to the dry heaving of half digested reactionary rhetoric which poses his role as nothing but a simple despot or murderer, I want to consider a person who spent most of his life fighting with everything he had for a cause he believed in....
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Three pieces on Vladimir Nabokov 1/3: Invitation...
The communist challenge to the bourgeois class in revolutionary Russia had a tremendous impact on the assumed “natural” perspective of its political and artistic position. The homogeneity of the bourgeoisie aesthetic-ideal had almost eclipsed other possibilities for art, such as “collective” art. I qualify “collective” in order to point out the absurdity of assuming there is...
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Sad Russian Poets
Here are two translations I did recently of some classic Russian poems. What they lack in exactness I hope they make up in transmitting the feelings I experience in reading them. Translation always carries an a simultaneous air of reverence and mockery, and in my choice to modernize some of the phrasing I hope I don’t err to far on the side of the latter. Alexander Pushkin (Алекса́ндр...
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Facebook and Possession
“We are no longer alienated towards the others and through others, but toward our multiple virtual clones.” - Baudrillard
Far from being a simple communication medium, Facebook has qualitative and concrete effects on the growing places dominated[1] by its use. The social mode surrounding the ubiquitous nature of Facebook coercively influences the possibilities of the social. The problems...
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Preliminary Notes on Żuławski's Possession
[Written after a particularly long bout of insomnia, thus the run-ons and grammar issues. Unfortunately I didn’t have access to a scanner to post the charts I drew. ] God is within you, a disease, this is gnosticism, the negative mediator sphere is god, which is a suprastructure of mediation birthed in the public sphere, but carried with in each self as these selves are renouncing a...
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Hingley and the Russian Nihilists
The cover and illustrations in this book are so beautiful I nearly wept on its arrival, I continued to weep as I read it, but mostly from frustration. With the guile of a conservative news-pundit, and the historical/factorial evidence of that museum where Jesus rides dinosaurs, Hingley displays mostly only his ignorant, and mainly misogynist thoughts in this mock-historical mini....
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