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Artyom Tonoyan

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A gentleman and a scholar. South Caucasus

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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.

Read and subscribe to my Substack. open.substack.com/pub/artyom/p...

30.10.2025 00:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Houellebecq's Annihilation A Review

Read a book. Wrote a review. Subscribe to my Substack open.substack.com/pub/artyom/p...

24.10.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

22.10.2025 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

09.10.2025 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

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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...

09.10.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Simple as

15.07.2025 01:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Are you a specialist in gender studies or Soviet history interested in women’s roles in the USSR? East View’s Soviet Woman Digital Archive (1945–1991) showcases this illustrated magazine promoting Soviet women’s achievements to global audiences. For more information www.eastview.com/resources/jo...

06.06.2025 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œThis indispensable collection of articles, documents, and interviews from the Soviet and Russian press brings alive the events and emotions of one of the most tragic conflicts that brought down the USSR.” Ronald Grigor Suny, University of Michigan. Read more www.eastviewpress.com/resources/bo...

06.06.2025 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

24.05.2025 23:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And you may say even before the start of the war

24.05.2025 23:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

22.04.2025 12:28 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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

22.04.2025 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mostly venal

22.04.2025 11:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

04.04.2025 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3225    πŸ” 1175    πŸ’¬ 71    πŸ“Œ 64

Damn. Sorry to hear this Nate

31.03.2025 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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The real winners in all of this - the Amish

30.03.2025 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We basically need a NATO but for eggs. Forget the nuclear umbrella, we need a mother hen!

22.03.2025 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

13.02.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

29.01.2025 04:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What is this hell?

24.01.2025 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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).

03.01.2025 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

23.12.2024 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A real missed opportunity there by The Chronicle of Higher Education. A more thoughtful title would be "Her Thesis on the β€˜Politics of Smell’ Raised a Stink. Here’s What She Thinks About It." You are welcome

06.12.2024 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

05.12.2024 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That was super helpful :)

05.12.2024 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

05.12.2024 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A riot of inconsistencies :)

05.12.2024 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations Hrag!

05.12.2024 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

South Korea. Why?

03.12.2024 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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