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Lydia Zvyagintseva
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Jun 15

The Tiger Menace

The 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, who was one year at the time and part Boxer herself. He came into my life like a bullet and lodged himself right above…

Dogs

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Dogs

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Jun 9

The Good Times Are Killing Me: Glass Bookshop Review

The Good Times Are Killing Me: Glass Bookshop Review Glass Bookshop — located at 9553 76 Avenue NW — is an independent bookstore in Edmonton specializing in writing by women, Black, Indigenous, queer, racialized, and local authors. The store is open 11 am — 7 pm on weekdays and 10…

Edmonton

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The Good Times Are Killing Me: Glass Bookshop Review
The Good Times Are Killing Me: Glass Bookshop Review
Edmonton

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Jun 3

Lawrence Avenue East

Lawrence 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, one of the city’s five districts, less than four years in total, it might as well be a lifetime. If not my formative years…

Toronto

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Lawrence Avenue East
Lawrence Avenue East
Toronto

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Mar 5, 2021

On refusal and the challenge of thinking collectively.

“I’ve always rejected being understood. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I’m not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect.” — Fernando Pessoa, Book of Disquiet I first learned about journal clubs (or scholarly reading groups) by reading Sarah J. Coysh, William Denton, and Lisa Sloniowski’s…

University

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On refusal and the challenge of thinking collectively.
On refusal and the challenge of thinking collectively.
University

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Jan 9, 2021

On Violence: Rupture and Saturation of the contemporary experience

On Violence: Rupture and Saturation of the Contemporary Experience “But I have tamed myself, I have stomped on the throat of my own song.” — Mayakovsky One day, while working at the service desk of a local public library, a man came up and said something which lent several chuckles…

Violence

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On Violence: Rupture and Saturation of the contemporary experience
On Violence: Rupture and Saturation of the contemporary experience
Violence

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Dec 30, 2020

On Death, Part 1.

“More life, more everything” — Drake, “Free Smoke” What does capitalism want? Thinkers like Jason W. Moore have said that it wants to eat the world, locked in a perpetual cycle of accumulation, gathering into itself all that is living: soil, forests, minerals, living beings, energy reserves. …

Death

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On Death, Part 1.
On Death, Part 1.
Death

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Oct 2, 2020

New Materialism and a commitment to philosophy

What is the use of philosophy today? The only thing more embarrassing than declaring oneself a philosopher these days is perhaps to come out as a poet. Few things are as indulgent and impractical as philosophizing in the ever-productive world of contemporary late capitalism. And anyway, is anyone who theorizes…

Philosophy

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New Materialism and a commitment to philosophy
New Materialism and a commitment to philosophy
Philosophy

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Sep 18, 2020

How shall we live? Job vs. Work in the Academy

“as if they were unalive, as if They were ideas” — e.e.cummings During a weekly huddle in a small unit in which I worked in my “professional youth”, a colleague who was new to the organization and figuring out the scope of their job said something that I remember regularly…

Labour

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How shall we live? Job vs. Work in the Academy
How shall we live? Job vs. Work in the Academy
Labour

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Lydia Zvyagintseva

Lydia Zvyagintseva

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Speculative librarianship, labour, power, technology. I am interested in land education.

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