No one is at all bothered by the idea of paradoxes resulting from the deaths of butterflies, grandfathers, or Hitlers
Continue reading...Quantum Leaps or Quantum Entanglement? (Unstuck in Time)
Eliot BorensteinCircle Games (Unstuck in Time)
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Voting Putin back into the presidency made the equation between past and future more literal
Continue reading...Time Out of Joint (Unstuck in Time)
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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)
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Scheduling Conflicts (Unstuck in Time)
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New Book, New Blog: Unstuck in Time
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Unstuck in Time: On the Post-Soviet Uncanny, will begin serialization on Thursday
Continue reading...Brother 2: Son of Brother (Russia’s Alien Nations)
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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)
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The Poet and the Crowd (Russia’s Alien Nations)
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The Fandom Menace (Russia’s Alien Nations
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A Song of Orcs and Trolls (Russia’s Alien Nations)
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Salting the Earth (Russia’s Alien Nations)
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Orknash: Supporting the Home Team (Russia’s Alien Nations)
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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)
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Off the Reservation (Russia’s Alien Nations)
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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)
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Orcs Online (Russia’s Alien Nations)
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Or(c)ientalism (Russia’s Alien Nations)
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If the appeal to literary fantasy might seem to cheapen ideological discourse, then this is a job well done.
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