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I am wondering: does anybody pay anthropological attention to the lines in the post-covid landscape?

I recollected how I once in the post-Perestroika Russia stood in line somewhere and spotted a friend of mine behind me. I invited her to…

Mar 25, 2021

I am wondering: does anybody pay anthropological attention to the lines in the post-covid landscape?

Mar 25, 2021

One of my girlfriends liked her lava lamp, but it was in Russia.

It is safe to say that the prominence of the lava lamps in the American culture—the floor is lava—did not occur to me before. But now with…

Mar 8, 2021

One of my girlfriends liked her lava lamp, but it was in Russia.

Mar 8, 2021

On Biden-Harris’s Inauguration Day

I am delighted the people in America delivered a crushing blow to Trumpism. Until a certain point, I found it difficult to believe that it…

Jan 20, 2021

Jan 20, 2021

The Flimsy Foundation of the American Democracy

The United States of America or what was once known by this name is still trying to put together what happened and make sense out of…

Jan 10, 2021

The Flimsy Foundation of the American Democracy

Jan 10, 2021

The Failure of the American Project

1/6/2021 was a 9/11 of this generation; Americans simply may not have grown into the realization of it yet.

Jan 8, 2021

The Failure of the American Project

Jan 8, 2021

Having a fireplace video with timber cracking loudly probably on repeat (but long enough so that I…

My parents house has a fireplace, and I had a fireplace in Anosovo. Wouldn’t it be strange to imagine that I will have videos with cracking…

Jan 2, 2021

Having a fireplace video with timber cracking loudly probably on repeat (but long enough so that I…

Jan 2, 2021

Missing Masses

Affect theory is an attempt to understand the elusive poetics of French philosophy by an Anglo-Saxon brain, which produces hilarious…

Jan 1, 2021

Missing Masses

Jan 1, 2021

Grappling with the Post-Sovietness of the World

“Post-Sovietness” typically encompasses the condition of contemporary life in Russia (Pop-Eleches, Tucker, 2017). From Tsiolkovsky to…

Nov 16, 2019

Grappling with the Post-Sovietness of the World

Nov 16, 2019

Russian Cyber Terrorists and Bears

“The President and Senate Majority Leader are willing to spend $2.5 billion to build a wall to keep Latin American asylum seekers from…

Sep 1, 2019

Sep 1, 2019

Married to Mother-in-Law (Fieldwork Encounters)

Her first mother-in-law was a third-tier party boss. Stately, tall, with grand breasts — Alla showed on herself how great her breasts were…

Aug 5, 2019

Married to Mother-in-Law (Fieldwork Encounters)

Aug 5, 2019

Vasilina Orlova

Vasilina Orlova

Writer, Anthropologist, Philosopher www.vasilinaorlova.com; www.patreon.com/orlova; https://www.amazon.com/Vasilina-Orlova/e/B001I0OUKC/

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