siarhei biareishyk

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I teach things at UPenn, for the time being.

Materialism - Marx via Spinoza, all things Soviet, Germanistik - Romanticism, Idealism etc

Since Covid, I've been using Slack for seminars. I love chatting with students in real time, DM-ing, making assignment changes last minute, sharing random content/jokes etc, organizing informal events. Slack changed its policy and now locks content. Any alternatives? Suggestions?

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."

I've been doing this for years, and I still don't know whether an application is due at 11:59pm on Nov 14th or 15th, when it says "apply by Nov 15" or "review will begin on Nov 15."

"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.