Artyom Tonoyan

I was today days old when I found out that Darth Vader in French is called Dark Vador 🙂

Pity they don’t illustrate books like this anymore. This 1961 edition of the Armenian national epic Sasuntsʻi Davitʻ (David of Sasun) pub. in Soviet Armenia is a case in point.

Zugzwang

Of style. And substance Exercises in Style, by Raymond Queneau (trans.

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Of burned books In the winter of 1988, an earthquake struck my hometown of Leninakan, destroying pretty much the entirety of the city and surrounding villages and towns, and killing 25,000 people.

Of that time in my life when I burned books. open.substack.com/pub/artyom/p...

thank you!

Of burned books In the winter of 1988, an earthquake struck my hometown of Leninakan, destroying pretty much the entirety of the city and surrounding villages and towns, and killing 25,000 people.

Of that time in my life when I burned books. open.substack.com/pub/artyom/p...

Bourdieu Freaks Le fou de Bourdieu by Fabrice Pliskin: A Review

Wherein I review Fabrice Pliskin's new novel Le fou de bourdieu (Bourdieu's Madman).

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The start of Uzbek dissident writer Hamid Ismailov’s newly translated book We Computers. I already like the book

Herald of a Restless World by Emily Herring A Review

Wherein I review Emily Herring's new biography of Henri Bergson, Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People.

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Houellebecq's Annihilation A Review

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Hubris Syndrome I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work.

Woody Allan once quipped "I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying." Some politicians think otherwise. open.substack.com/pub/artyom/p...

I meant to say "It was fun trying to track down..." Just noticed the incoherent verbiage :)

It was trying to track down some of the source material. Had no idea about this whole thing until not too long ago

Chino's Gun One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.

Wherein I write about the staging of the West Side Story in Soviet Armenia in 1963 open.substack.com/pub/artyom/p...

Simple as

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That’s a terrible latte art. I can do a seminar but my membership has lapsed

And you may say even before the start of the war

1) Don’t think I’ve seen Georgia as an origin country for transnational repression before

2) Definitely have never seen Iceland as a host country

A plane of highly polished stainless steel in the shape of a pooling water and a 22 year old him gazing into it with a coup de coeur amazement. A recreation of the myth of Narcissus

Mostly venal

This feels like the defining image from this year’s Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting.

The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.

Damn. Sorry to hear this Nate

The real winners in all of this - the Amish

We basically need a NATO but for eggs. Forget the nuclear umbrella, we need a mother hen!

Name is Sadanand. Should change it to Madanand to match his ideas

Seeing what’s happening with the latest moves by the Trump administration is like someone brought back Yegor Gaidar from the dead and gave him an office in the West Wing

What is this hell?