Crisis 22
Table of Contents
Crisis 22 is a literary look at the crisis surrounding the Ukraine War.
A Literary Premise
~ approaches & arguments ~
🟢 Preface: Nine Novels ~ a general overview - From Moscow to Jakarta - Pushkin’s Brethren - The Global South - War: Poems & Novels
🍏 Introduction: Rivers & Apples ~ on the arguments in each section - 1. A Literary Premise - 2. Waking Up - 3. Cunning Plans - 4. Puppet Masters - 5. Fearless Leaders - 6. Coda
🍎 The Road to Damascus ~ on ▸ my personal view of the crisis and ▸ the dangerous game played by both Russia & the U.S. - Who’s to Blame? - Apples of Discord - Changing Course
☕️ Politics and the Language of Literature ~ on ▸ my view of political literature and ▸ my brief travels in Russia - The Bitten Apple - Coffee in St. Pete’s
🌗 With Open Eyes ~ on sections 1 & 2 - 1. A Literary Premise - 2. Waking Up
🌘 Gogol & Co. ~ on section 3 - Plans & Puppets - 3. Cunning Plans
🌒 Down South ~ on sections 4, 5, & 6 - 4. Puppet Masters - Rushdie - 5. Fearless Leaders - 6. Coda
🗝 The Time is Out of Joint ~ on vicarious experience in Gogol & Shakespeare - At the Tea Table - The Play’s the Thing
📺 Vicarious Experience ~ on literature & empathy in Hamlet, Russian resistance, and The Year of Living Dangerously - In a Dream of Passion - Pianoman - Cameraman
🪞 Mirrors ~ on depth of perception in poetry and drama - Poetry - Tragedy & Comedy - Achilles & Arjuna
📚 4 Types of Narrative ~ on depth & complexity in novels - Nine Novels - Four Types
💥 Exceptional Violence ~ on the present mess - Chiaroscuro - Chiaro - Scuro - The Present Score: August 19, 2024
🟢 Fog & Shadow ~ on the difficulty of knowing - August 20, 2024
🌏 The Global South ~ on rethinking the world
2. Waking Up
~ the shock of war ~
⏳ The Ghost of Crises Past ~ on the old fears - Two Sonnets - The 1980s - Lines - Chaos
✈️ Dream Vacation 2005 ~ on a Russia that might have been - St. Petersburg, Moscow, Vladímir, & Suzdal
⛱ Rip Van Winkle ~ on the long sleep before the storm - Mojitos & a Cigar - El Profesor - Blissful Ignorance - Reveille
🥕 The Carrot ~ on political inactivism - La Carotte - To MSF and All the Others - Court & Commons - Black Florentine - La Vie en Rose - Nightmares of the Iraq War Variety
❤️ Caritas ~ on dipping the toe in political water - Caritas - Avenida de los Presidentes, 2014 - The Hotel Nacional - Makoko - Guilt on an Oversized Sofa - Currents
🌉 Jovanka on the Bridge ~ on blessing bombs - Jovanka (July 22, 2023) - Q & A (October 8, 2023)
☯️ Both In and Out of the Game ~ on getting critical distance - Options - Ostrichism - Ukraine 101 - Realism - Whitman
❄️ Political Modes of Being ~ on opting in & out - Connections - Keats - Eliot - Aurelius - Pseudaurelius - Eyes - Religion - Violence
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. Coda
~ “This is the end, / beautiful friend” ~
🎸 The Algorithmics ~ on the dangers of following your bliss & anger - Dec. 10, 2023 - Marilyn - Bubbles - Algo Something
🦋 The Tao of Putin (April, 2022) ~ on mysticism vs. violence
🍒 Macaron, Not Macron ~ on luxury amid the carnage
⏳ AD / BC (July, 2022) ~ on the worst possible outcome
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