Artyom Tonoyan

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?

Man, Chat GPT is absolutely bonkers about religion in the Soviet Union. Presents Fr. Alexander Men as a KGB agent (he most certainly was not) and that The Flying Spaghetti Monster was created in the 1980s Soviet underground, (It wasn't).

Nothing like an article by the former ambassador of Albania to Azerbaijan about the ancient kingdom of Caucasian Albania in the newspaper Modern Ghana. Two Albanias are unrelated. Or are related much the same way suntan oil and water are

A real missed opportunity there by The Chronicle of Higher Education. A more thoughtful title would be "Her Thesis on the ‘Politics of Smell’ Raised a Stink. Here’s What She Thinks About It." You are welcome

Well I’ll be darned. You weren’t kidding :)

That was super helpful :)

I like the hoodie btw. Where can I buy one?

A riot of inconsistencies :)

Congratulations Hrag!

South Korea. Why?