How to shame readers who can't read the book in the original language...

Discovered to my great shock students not only have no knowledge of the plot of Oedipus, they don’t know who that is at all… Like drawing a complete blank!

Been there, done that (2014)

Getting closer to this awesome opening next week... www.denverartmuseum.org/en/exhibitio...

Denver

Лондон - колыбель революции...

Zohran Mamdani Refuses To Share Plan For Making Rich Richer

Storming this unseemly castle later in the day…

New reads

John Singer Sargent, Miss Beatrice Townsend (1882)

Situation

Personal story time: I’m actually an antifa member masquerading as a man…

Psychoanalysis Express

Finished The Mill on the Floss - enjoyed it but ending it too abrupt and entirely "this will solve all of my narrative knots and deadends, yay!"

New Agriculture is excellent open.spotify.com/album/4HxzA7...

Trump Audibly Counting Non-White Generals

Downtown life

Mood

Happy Saturday

Self-portrait in front of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra, 1912, Uffizi

Reading the new @lrb.co.uk, nice piece on Sargent in there...

Mood

Oh la la

Running shoes goals…

The "I don't come to class" to "I do poorly on the exams" pipeline is real... #grading

Mood

To get rid of occasional bouts of imposter syndrome I simply get up from my desk, get any books from my shelves and read a few pages. Works like magic…

New tunes out today...

Back to the basics…

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

Mood

Next volume in Bogdanov Library ready for 2026 publication... brill.com/display/titl...

‘In the age of Trump, the anti-liberals seem to have regained the initiative as prime movers of denunciation; liberals, accordingly, have remembered that they have objections in principle.’ Sheila Fitzpatrick on the politics of snitching in Russia and America: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

“There are campuses where professors are being fired for statements made in classes. And there’s this sense of am I being recorded? Are people signing up for classes simply to antagonize? And all of that does feel even more amplified now, especially in the aftermath of this killing.”

Seoul, 2017

Happy Wednesday

Layers of campus architecture

Normalize super-long descriptive subtitles...

Accidentally discovered that a) there are seventeen (17) translations of Turgenev's Отцы и дети into English and b) there's a real power struggle between FATHERS AND CHILDREN [literal translation of the Russian title) and FATHERS AND SONS title translations...

Right wing media searching for who has promoted such violence and intolerance in politics

"Arundhati Roy reading her own audiobook" mood...

Looking forward to the days when my children eat something other than mac-n-cheese…