Vasilina OrlovaI 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…1 min read·Mar 25, 2021----
Vasilina OrlovaOne 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…1 min read·Mar 8, 2021----
Vasilina OrlovaOn Biden-Harris’s Inauguration DayI am delighted the people in America delivered a crushing blow to Trumpism. Until a certain point, I found it difficult to believe that it…1 min read·Jan 20, 2021----
Vasilina OrlovaThe Flimsy Foundation of the American DemocracyThe 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…7 min read·Jan 10, 2021----
Vasilina OrlovaThe Failure of the American Project1/6/2021 was a 9/11 of this generation; Americans simply may not have grown into the realization of it yet.5 min read·Jan 8, 2021----
Vasilina OrlovaHaving 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…1 min read·Jan 2, 2021----
Vasilina OrlovaMissing MassesAffect theory is an attempt to understand the elusive poetics of French philosophy by an Anglo-Saxon brain, which produces hilarious…2 min read·Jan 1, 2021----
Vasilina OrlovaGrappling 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…2 min read·Nov 16, 2019----
Vasilina OrlovaRussian 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…2 min read·Sep 1, 2019----
Vasilina OrlovaMarried 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…4 min read·Aug 5, 2019----