I teach things at UPenn, for the time being.
Materialism - Marx via Spinoza, all things Soviet, Germanistik - Romanticism, Idealism etc
I teach things at UPenn, for the time being.
Materialism - Marx via Spinoza, all things Soviet, Germanistik - Romanticism, Idealism etc
Conversation between two toddlers:
The kid of a toxicologist, proud: "My mama is a doctor!"
The kid of a humanities PhD, unfazed: "Yeah? But my papa is a doctor of ideas!"
Shukshin's 'village prose' - notes from a different world:
"Novaya was not a large village, and so when K.I. actually came rolling up in a taxi, the whole village knew immediately: Agafya's son had come with his family, the rich one the scholar. He himself was a PhD, his wife was a PhD, too.They'd brought Agafya an electric samovar."
"In terms of material, Disney's pictures are pure ecstasy - the immersion of self in nature and animals.
Ecstasy is a sensing and experiencing of the primal omnipotence--the element of coming into being. Fire is an image of coming into being, revealed in a process."
Eisenstein
Pure gibberish, unless you actually watch Disney.