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Meeting Schedule

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Autumn 2023

 

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10 October 2023: Late Soviet Boredom

Keti Chukhrov, Practicing the Good: Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism (Minnesota UP, 2022), Chapter 3 (pp. 90-117) & Chapter 9 (pp. 200-219)

Additional Reading:

Keti Chukhrov, ‘Instead of an Introduction’ (pp. 14-23)

Martin Heidegger, Excerpts on Boredom, in The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude (Indiana UP, 1995) (pp. 78-175)

 

31 October 2023: Bakhtin’s Chronotope

Mikhail Bakhtin, ‘Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel: Notes Towards a Historical Poetics’, in Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays, translated by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981), pp. 84-258.

 

21 November 2023: Indigenous Temporalities

Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov, ‘Evenki Shamanistic Practices in Soviet Present and Ethnographic Present Perfect,’ Anthropology of Consciousness 12:1 (2001): 1-18.

Anna Sokolova, ‘Invading the void: social time production as a developmental tool in the late Soviet periphery,’ Canadian Slavonic Papers, 65:1 (2023), 52-71.

Curated by Zinaida Vasilyeva

 

12 December 2023: Northern Time

Geidar Dzhemal, Orientation-North (Orientatsiia-Sever)

Maria Engström, ‘Orientation-North: Geidar Dzhemal’s Metaphysics of Politics’: https://therussiaprogram.org/onlinepaper_7

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Spring 2023

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21 February 2023: Alexandre Kojève on Time and the End of History

‘Note on Eternity, Time, and the Concept: Complete Text of the Eighth Lecture of the Academic Year 1938–1939’ (pp. 130–149), including two schemes.

Two footnotes on the End of History, appended to the ‘Complete Text of the Twelfth Lecture of the Academic Year 1938–1939’ in 1946/1948 (pp. 158–162).

 

7 March 2023: Vladimir Kobrin’s ‘Present Continuous’

Vladimir Kobrin, ‘Present Continuous’ (1989): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRqJqVnfJyI

 

28 March 2023: Mircea Eliade on the Eternal Return

‘Vozvrashchenie sviashchennogo. Poiski absoliuta. Beseda s Mirche Eliade’ [The Return of the Sacred. In Search of the Absolute. Conversation with Mircea Eliade], 37, no. 20, pp. 98-110: https://samizdatcollections.library.utoronto.ca/islandora/object/samizdat%3A4270

Mircea Eliade, ‘The Regeneration of Time’ in Cosmos and History: The Myth of Eternal Return (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1959), pp. 49-73.

 

18 April 2023: Evald llyenkov’s ‘Cosmology of the Spirit’

Evald llyenkov, ‘Cosmology of the Spirit’: https://stasisjournal.net/index.php/journal/article/view/19/22

 

9 May 2023: Views on Late Soviet Temporalities from Outside

Chantal Akerman, D’Est (1993)

 

22 May 2023: The Iuzhinskii Circle I

Evgenii Golovin, Mythomania. Translated by Charlie Smith.

Additional Reading: Maria Engström, ‘Late-Soviet Occulture: Evgenii Golovin and the Iuzhinskii Circle’, in Mark Lipovetsky, and others (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture (online edn, Oxford Academic, 14 July 2021), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197508213.013.25

 

13 June 2023: The Iuzhinskii Circle II

Yuri Mamleev, The Fate of Being. Translated by Charlie Smith.

Additional Reading: Charlie Smith, ‘Yuri Mamleev Considered as an Autarchic Metaphysicist’.

 

27 June 2023: Necorealist Aesthetics

Selection of shorts by Evgeny Yufit, Evgeny “Debil” Kondratiev and Claus Loser.

1. Werewolf-Orderlies” (Санитары-оборотни), 1984, 3:32 min: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCfSevZqZ5c
2. “Woodcutter” (Лесоруб), 1985, 8:14 min: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIJPsJ1GcWc
3. “Spring” (Весна), 1987, 9:56 min: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JYFKt4Au-o
4. “Dreams” (Грезы), 1988, 11:54 min: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10Y8rZmXTO4
5. “Necrology” (Nekrolog), 1985, 6:12 min: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NK5BfPeysc

Additional Reading: Anzhelika Artyukh, ‘Is There Eros in the World of Thanatos? Discovering Evgeny Yufit’s Late Photography (2013-14)’, East European Film Bulletin 109 (November 2020).

 

11 July 2023: Valentin Silvestrov

Richard Gillies, Interview with Valentin Silvestrov

Additional Readings:

Richard Gillies, Singing Soviet Stagnation: Vocal Cycles from the USSR 1964-1985 (Routledge, 2022).

Peter Schmelz, ‘Valentin Silvestrov and the Echoes of Music History,’ The Journal of Musicology, Vol. 31, Issue 2 (2014), pp. 231–271.

 

25 July 2023: Comrades of Time

Boris Groys, ‘Comrades of Time’, e-flux journal, no. 11 (December 2009).

 

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