Lydia ZvyagintsevaThe Tiger MenaceThe Kijiji seller claimed the puppy was a Boxer-Labrador cross. I was looking for a Boxer as a silly, playful mate for my first dog Nula…5 min read·Jun 15, 2023----
Lydia ZvyagintsevaThe Good Times Are Killing Me: Glass Bookshop ReviewGlass Bookshop — located at 9553 76 Avenue NW — is an independent bookstore in Edmonton specializing in writing by women, Black…5 min read·Jun 9, 2023----
Lydia ZvyagintsevaLawrence Avenue EastLawrence Avenue is a major street running through Toronto, but I think of it as the river of my youth. Though I have lived in Scarborough…5 min read·Jun 3, 2023----
Lydia ZvyagintsevaThe Ghosts of MariupolThe inhuman power of capital’s drive for death.3 min read·Aug 20, 2022----
Lydia ZvyagintsevaTrading Space for TimeNo one gives a shit about Donbas. If they have heard of this place at all — if they have conceptualized it not as a province, but rather a…4 min read·Jul 5, 2022----
Lydia ZvyagintsevaThe SwitchThe trill of the tundra swans carries down from 20,000 feet, but you won’t need it where you are going.4 min read·Jun 8, 2022----
Lydia ZvyagintsevaOn refusal and the challenge of thinking collectively.Reading “Refusing Research” to interrogate the kind of knowledge made possible, and why we revert to individual conceptions of action.7 min read·Mar 5, 2021----
Lydia ZvyagintsevaOn Violence: Rupture and Saturation of the contemporary experienceExamining positive and negative violence through Byung-Chul Han’s theory.7 min read·Jan 9, 2021----
Lydia ZvyagintsevaOn Death, Part 1.“More life, more everything” — Drake, “Free Smoke”6 min read·Dec 30, 2020----
Lydia ZvyagintsevaNew Materialism and a commitment to philosophyWhat is the use of philosophy today? The only thing more embarrassing than declaring oneself a philosopher these days is perhaps to come…7 min read·Oct 2, 2020----