Crisis 22
Contents
Crisis 22 is a literary look at the crisis surrounding the Ukraine War.
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🍏 Preface ~ Aim & Method - Nine Novels - Six Sections - Literature & Politics - Apples of Discord - Changing Course - Politics & Literature - Coffee in St. Pete’s
A Literary Premise
~ approaches & arguments ~
🌗 With Open Eyes ~ A Literary Premise - Waking Up
🌘 Gogol & Co. ~ Plans & Puppets - Cunning Plans
🌒 Down South ~ Puppet Masters - Rushdie - Fearless Leaders - Coda
🗝 The Time is Out of Joint ~ In the Drawing Room - The Play’s the Thing
📺 Vicarious Experience ~ In a Dream of Passion - Pianoman - Cameraman
🪞 Mirrors ~ Poetry - Tragedy & Comedy - Achilles & Arjuna
📚 4 Types of Narrative ~ Nine Novels - Four Types
💥 Exceptional Violence ~ Chiaroscuro - Chiaro - Scuro - The Present Score: August 19, 2024
🟢 Fog & Shadow ~ August 20, 2024
Waking Up
~ the shock of war ~
⏳ The Ghost of Crises Past ~ Two Sonnets - The 1980s - Lines - Chaos
✈️ Dream Vacation 2005 ~ St. Petersburg, Moscow, Vladímir, & Suzdal
⛱ Rip Van Winkle ~ Mojitos & a Cigar - El Profesor - Blissful Ignorance - Reveille
🌉 Jovanka on the Bridge ~ Jovanka (July 22, 2023) - Q & A (October 8, 2023)
☯️ Both In and Out of the Game ~ Options - Ostrichism - Ukraine 101 - Realism - Whitman
❄️ Political Modes of Being ~ Connections - Keats - Eliot - Aurelius - Pseudaurelius - Eyes - Religion - Violence
Cunning Plans
~ Gogol, Dostoevsky, & Bulgakov ~
🧥 Two Novels and an Overcoat ~ Dead Souls & Year - Gogol’s Overcoat
😵💫 Russian Souls ~ A Cunning Plan - The Russian Soul - Belinsky
✒️ Literature & Subversion ~ The Integrated Threat - Exceptionalism - Gogol & Bulgakov
💰 Selling the Scheme — not yet online
🧛🏻♂️ The Immoralities of Marmeladov and Raskolnikov
🚓 Crimes and Punishments
Puppet Masters
~ postcolonialism: a multipolarity that already was ~
🎭 Behind the Scenes ~ Five Points - The Wayang Kulit
☯️ Unified Sensibilities ~ The Political Uses of Literature - The Fractured Mirror - T.S. Eliot - Koch’s Year
⚔️ The Dangerous Years ~ Years - Puppetry - James Bond - Daughter of Darkness - Spoiler Alert
🌪 The Eye of the Storm ~ The State of Things - What Then Must We Do?
✨ The Dark Which Has No End ~ Strata Casting: Akasha & Accumulation - From Lamp to Lamp
🎙️ Words of Folly and Wisdom — not yet online
⚔️ Battle of the Puppets
🇮🇳 India & the Many-Headed Monsters
🇵🇰 Pakistan & the Fall of the Poet
Fearless Leaders
~ war & rhetoric ~
✊ Fearless Leader of the Global South ~ Overview - The New Bung Karno - Les Humiliés - Global Sing-Along
🇺🇦 Golden Bridges (July, 2022) ~ Past & Present - Blame - The Past - Solution - Sanctions - Action - Coda - Anthem
🇺🇸 / 🇷🇺 Exceptionalism (Dec. 2, 2022) ~ The Mad Cartographer (Aug. 2024) - Dec. 2022 - The Unmentioned History
🗽 Our Lady of the Harbour ~ Arms Race to the Grave (2023) - Questions - Setting Sail - Our Boys (2003)
☮︎ War: A Brief Playlist of Songs & Poems
Coda
~ “This is the end, / beautiful friend” ~
🦋 The Tao of Putin (April, 2022)
⏳ AD / BC (July, 2022)
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