Thread. I realised I've written a good deal about Russia over the past few years, and it would be nice to put it all in one place.
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"Why Cosmism? Why Now?" in
@tankmagazine , on the recent revival of the ideas of Fedorov, Tsiolkovsky, et al., by the intellectual dabblers of of Silicon Valley.https://tankmagazine.com/issue-74/features/justin-eh-smith/ …1 reply 1 retweet 3 likesShow this thread -
"Onfim the Artist," Cabinet Magazine, No 64, on Novgorodian birch-bark manuscripts and one of their prepubescent illustrators. PDF to follow.
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"Cactus Life," Cabinet Magazine, No 55, on the education, and manipulation, of deaf-blind children in the Soviet Union. http://www.jehsmith.com/files/smithjeh_cactuslife_cabinet_55_2014.pdf …
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"It's All Dark," Cabinet Magazine, No 50, on, among other things, the Soviet Luna 3 program and the race to observe the so-called dark side of the moon. http://www.jehsmith.com/files/cabinet2013.pdf …
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"Notes on ъ," some historical-linguistic reflections on the soft sign and the a-breve in Russian and Bulgarian.http://www.jehsmith.com/1/2017/08/notes-on-yer.html …
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"A Theft," a free translation of a 15th-century Novgorodian birch-bark poem.http://www.jehsmith.com/1/2017/03/a-theft.html …
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