I’m making up the introduction as I’m going along
Continue reading...The Future is Feudal (Unstuck in Time)
Eliot Borenstein
The medieval future, far from being always dystopian, might not even be that bad.
Continue reading...Quantum Leaps or Quantum Entanglement? (Unstuck in Time)
Eliot Borenstein
No one is at all bothered by the idea of paradoxes resulting from the deaths of butterflies, grandfathers, or Hitlers
Continue reading...Circle Games (Unstuck in Time)
Eliot Borenstein
Voting Putin back into the presidency made the equation between past and future more literal
Continue reading...Time Out of Joint (Unstuck in Time)
Eliot Borenstein
The manipulation of Russian historical precedent for present-day political gain is rather clear-cut
Continue reading...Time of Troubles; or, The Trouble with Time (Unstuck in Time)
Eliot Borenstein
Scheduling Conflicts (Unstuck in Time)
Eliot Borenstein
New Book, New Blog: Unstuck in Time
Eliot Borenstein
Unstuck in Time: On the Post-Soviet Uncanny, will begin serialization on Thursday
Continue reading...Brother 2: Son of Brother (Russia’s Alien Nations)
Eliot Borenstein
If we say (and show) enough times that there are no more questions that need to be asked about the nature and future of Russia, it will become true
Continue reading...Brothers and Keepers (Russia’s Alien Nations)
Eliot Borenstein
The Poet and the Crowd (Russia’s Alien Nations)
Eliot Borenstein
The Fandom Menace (Russia’s Alien Nations
Eliot Borenstein
A Song of Orcs and Trolls (Russia’s Alien Nations)
Eliot Borenstein
Salting the Earth (Russia’s Alien Nations)
Eliot Borenstein
Orknash: Supporting the Home Team (Russia’s Alien Nations)
Eliot Borenstein
The Orc identity imagines rejection by the West, only to turn the Orc into an imaginary weapon against the West.
Continue reading...The Tank Driver of Mordor (Russia’s Alien Nations)
Eliot Borenstein
Off the Reservation (Russia’s Alien Nations)
Eliot Borenstein
The “Orc question” becomes much more provocative when seen in terms of internal cultural dynamics.
Continue reading...The Orc-Song of Mikhail Y. Elizarov (Russia’s Alien Nations)
Eliot Borenstein
Orcs Online (Russia’s Alien Nations)
Eliot Borenstein
Or(c)ientalism (Russia’s Alien Nations)
Eliot Borenstein
If the appeal to literary fantasy might seem to cheapen ideological discourse, then this is a job well done.
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