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The Future Is Not Yet Written (Unstuck in Time)

Eliot Borenstein Tuesday, June 29th, 2021



I’m making up the introduction as I’m going along

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The Future is Feudal (Unstuck in Time)

Eliot Borenstein Thursday, June 24th, 2021



The medieval future, far from being always dystopian, might not even be that bad.

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Quantum Leaps or Quantum Entanglement? (Unstuck in Time)

Eliot Borenstein Thursday, June 17th, 2021



No one is at all bothered by the idea of paradoxes resulting from the deaths of butterflies, grandfathers, or Hitlers

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Circle Games (Unstuck in Time)

Eliot Borenstein Tuesday, June 15th, 2021



Voting Putin back into the presidency made the equation between past and future more literal

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Time Out of Joint (Unstuck in Time)

Eliot Borenstein Thursday, June 10th, 2021



The manipulation of Russian historical precedent for present-day political gain is rather clear-cut

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Time of Troubles; or, The Trouble with Time (Unstuck in Time)

Eliot Borenstein Tuesday, June 8th, 2021



The outcome of a Time of Troubles is a foregone conclusion

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Scheduling Conflicts (Unstuck in Time)

Eliot Borenstein Thursday, June 3rd, 2021



On or about December 1991, the normal course of time in Russia stopped.

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New Book, New Blog: Unstuck in Time

Eliot Borenstein Tuesday, June 1st, 2021



Unstuck in Time: On the Post-Soviet Uncanny, will begin serialization on Thursday

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Brother 2: Son of Brother (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Thursday, October 24th, 2019



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

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Brothers and Keepers (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019



Danila is a dangerous mixed metaphor: an empty vessel and a hired gun. 

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The Poet and the Crowd (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Monday, October 14th, 2019



These identities belong to the world of urban folklore

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The Fandom Menace (Russia’s Alien Nations

Eliot Borenstein Friday, October 11th, 2019



Nationalism as fandom

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A Song of Orcs and Trolls (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Monday, October 7th, 2019



Americans who are paranoid about Russian trolls are trolling themselves.

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Salting the Earth (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Friday, October 4th, 2019



This is still fantasy, but it is neither that of Tolkien nor Warcraft.

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Orknash: Supporting the Home Team (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Monday, September 30th, 2019



The Orc identity imagines rejection by the West, only to turn the Orc into an imaginary weapon against the West.

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The Tank Driver of Mordor (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Tuesday, September 24th, 2019



Meet the Jeffrey Epstein of Middle Earth

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Off the Reservation (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Friday, September 20th, 2019



The “Orc question” becomes much more provocative when seen in terms of internal cultural dynamics.

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The Orc-Song of Mikhail Y. Elizarov (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Monday, September 16th, 2019



The song is an implicit call for the renewal of Orc pride.

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Orcs Online (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Friday, September 13th, 2019



The Orc is the Sovok weaponized.

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Or(c)ientalism (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Monday, September 9th, 2019



If the appeal to literary fantasy might seem to cheapen ideological discourse, then this is a job well done.

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