Friday, 31 May 2024
Пятничное-брюзгливое
Thursday, 30 May 2024
Chad Daybell: guilty on all charges (En)
Wednesday, 29 May 2024
Tuesday, 28 May 2024
Is all that politics now offers the circulation of elites? If so, the differences between those elites are less pronounced than they once were. The Labour Party’s purpose was never to put actual workers in parliament: after all, a miner could not do a shift at the coal face then turn up at Westminster of an evening, as a London barrister could. Rather, it was created to put the products of elementary schools, of apprenticeships, into parliament. It was thus the party not of the working class, but of the organized working class: it put trade union officials into parliament, alongside some political activists. And until the 1940s, though most of its voters were working-class, it barely attracted half of the working-class vote. ©
Monday, 27 May 2024
Sunday, 26 May 2024
Рабочее-текущее
24 закончился дедлайн по приему заявок на Армитадж: получилось много, плюс на следующий день пришло еще два абстракта, которые я решила принять (интересные темы и постоянные участники). Следующий этап — тематика секций (работаю над этим) и распределение по ним заявок. Плюс завтра нужно будет написать рецензию на магистерский диссер (моя обычная занятость в конце мая). В общем, на следующей неделе работы предстоит много, и это хорошо: некогда унывать и испытывать экзистенциальные ужасы.
Saturday, 25 May 2024
Friday, 24 May 2024
Nothings and triviality
Thursday, 23 May 2024
Wednesday, 22 May 2024
Election Day: soon
Tuesday, 21 May 2024
“Sequestered Places, Having Seas: The Life & Works of M.R. James”: Part 4 (En), a Keynote Talk
Monday, 20 May 2024
Маме 75
Sunday, 19 May 2024
Saturday, 18 May 2024
Nothings and triviality (En)
Friday, 17 May 2024
“Sequestered Places, Having Seas: The Life & Works of M.R. James”: Part 3 (En) Panel 1 “Uncanny Innovations”
Thursday, 16 May 2024
Malabou is a careful interpreter, but also a swashbuckling one, with no time for reverence. Needling Derrida, the deconstructionist who supervised her dissertation, she asks in a parody of his tone: “Is deconstruction reformist? Yes and no. Anarchist? Yes and no”. Then she quotes the man himself (from his essay “Force of law”): “Is that what deconstruction is? Is it a general strike or a strategy of rupture? Yes and no”. Malabou herself wields the deconstructive technique with aplomb, even where where she is showing that Derrida’s ideas tend to devour or refute themselves, and where she is evidently accusing him of intellectual cowardice. ©
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Nothing had been discussed, I just assumed I would be naked. I got undressed and asked him what he would like me to do. He said it was up to me. I lay on the sofa, but I didn’t want to look obedient in my portrait, I didn’t feel obedient. I wanted my father to paint me but not like the others – there was some kind of battle going on, unacknowledged but expressed in the muscles of my bent leg – I was alert, prepared to spring up at any moment.I asked him not to paint in my hairy legs. He said it was not like that. We talked about make-up. He didn’t like to paint it, but I was not going to take off my mascara. In the end he decided it was part of me. That was a small victory. ©
Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Эрлю 77
На море парус плещет из-под ветра.На палубе виднеется суровый капитан.В трубу подзорную ворону наблюдая,он видит: на расстоянии около десяти метровнесет она в когтях оптический обман,да и на вид она — еще довольно молодая.«Когда б она была Даная,когда б она была Даная!» —вздыхает молчаливый капитани мчится — дальше в океан. ©
Monday, 13 May 2024
Saturday, 11 May 2024
К 100-летию Б. Окуджавы
Friday, 10 May 2024
Thursday, 9 May 2024
Wednesday, 8 May 2024
Вчера исполнилось два года, как ушел Пикол, и все меньше хочется писать о своих чувствах в соцсетях. Ощущение боли того дня заглушается переключением на обыденные вещи и работу, но стоит начать вспоминать обо всем в подробностях, как мгновенно накрывает, и этим уж точно делиться не хочется, как и профессионально аутсорсить свои воспоминания и эмоции, превращаясь в трудолюбивого плакальщика.
Tuesday, 7 May 2024
“Why everyone is a novelist” (The TLS archive: September 16, 1988)
A self is also an abstract object, a theorist’s fiction. The theory is not particle physics but what we might call a branch of people-physics; it is more soberly known as a phenomenology or hermeneutics, or soul-science (Geisteswissenschaft). The physicist does an interpretation, if you like, of the chair and its behaviour, and comes up with the theoretical abstraction of a centre of gravity, which is then very useful in characterizing the behaviour of the chair in the future, under a wide variety of conditions. The hermeneuticist or phenomenologist – or anthropologist – sees some rather more complicated things moving about in the world (human beings and animals) and is faced with a similar problem of interpretation. It turns out to be theoretically perspicuous to organize the interpretation around a central abstraction: each person has a self (in addition to a centre of gravity). In fact we have to posit selves for ourselves as well. The theoretical problem of self-interpretation is at least as difficult and important as the problem of other-interpretation. ©
Sunday, 5 May 2024
Пасха-2024
Христос воскресе из мертвых, смертию смерть поправ, и сущим во гробех живот даровав!
Christ is Risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing life!
Saturday, 4 May 2024
Великая Суббота и новость о кончине отца Рафаила
Накануне Светлого Христова Воскресенья узнала, что отошел ко Господу отец Рафаил Армор, настоятель нашего кембриджского прихода Свт. Ефрема Сирина. Умер он, оказывается, еще в прошлом году, 23 июля, а узнала я только сегодня. Никогда не забуду его любовь и отеческую поддержку и заботу: вспомнила, как он, уже тяжело больной, отслужил панихиду по папе в марте прошлого года... Царствие ему Небесное, вечный покой. +
Friday, 3 May 2024
Eastern Orthodox Good Friday (En)
Thursday, 2 May 2024
“Sequestered Places, Having Seas: The Life & Works of M.R. James”: Part 2 (En)
Done my talk “Jamesian Unheimlich: the evolution of the ghost story.” Hope it wasn’t boring!