Evgeny Medvedev “Simple Pleasures,” 2019. Marker, pen, yellow Photoshop fill, printer paper. 15 x 15 cm. Framed. Private collection, Oryol.

On February 22, 2020, in Saint Petersburg, together with E. A. Lebedev, we held a 26-hour performance lecture “Ecological Poetry Writing”.

Topics

  • Was Saussure right?
  • Where is Kholshevnikov looking?
  • Tectonic plates of meter: Gasparov and fisheries.
  • Congruence between poem and author, author and reader, reader and megapolis resident.
  • The art of arriving late: visiting the Guermantes.
  • Immortality — what is it?
  • Dante is here too: is folk eloquence ecological, and why should we care?
  • From Bulgarin to Bespalov — a history of asphyxia.
  • From Odysseus to Ulysses. A boring voyage.
  • Class betrayal, or how to saddle the world-historical spirit.
  • Salvation. The anthropological factor.

Reading list

  • Max Weber, “Double-entry bookkeeping for everyone”.
  • Solange Marriot, “Rien du tout, ou la consequence”.
  • Philip Dick, “The Art of Being Prudent”.
  • Urban II, “Epiphany and Gods Volunteers.
  • K. Sotonin, Socrates. An Introduction to Cosmetics.
  • Antipericatamelanaparbeugedamphicribrationes merdicantium.
  • Jakobson, Zaum at Home.
  • Nietzsche, Guide to the Sanatorium.
  • Almanac New Sensibility, Vol. I: What Is Realism?.
  • Pessoa, Advertising for Beginners.
  • Luther, A New Way of Organization.
  • Calvin, Psychology of Acceptance.
  • Bergson, Confession of a Cloakroom Attendant.
  • Anonymous, Situational Realism: Satura or Rhizome? In Search of a New Ontology.
  • A. Sergeev, Analytics of Miracle in the Cinema of Eugène Green.

Address

Saint Petersburg, Vasileostrovskaya metro, Elena Bria Square, 8, creative cluster Entrance to the Void.