Office Hours - Is Tolstoy still relevant?
Major themes: Raskolnikov the rap god, The future of art, Tricking PBS
The UnSimple by Taras Prokhasko
Major themes: We can never escape Benedict Anderson, Bai-narrative, Quasi-history
Office Hours - Why don't straight men read novels?
Major themes: A.I. bait, straight men and novels, TikTok killed the author-star
Strike! (1925) by Sergei Eisenstein
Major themes: Cow slaughter, Influencing the audience, Everything is montage
The Tears & Smiles of Things by Sodomora (w/ translators Dr. Roman Ivashkiv and Sabrina Jaszi)
Major themes: Reading antiquity, Tears and smiles, Translating translators
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
Major themes: Torturing matter, Doomed eroticism, Unfinished modernity