Katya Danziger
@katyadanziger.bsky.social
Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University
Founding editor of ДОЖДЬ @zygaro.bsky.social Columbia University: “the Ukrainian war is a war about the ‘I’ vs. the ‘we’ of Soviet culture, trying to draft the younger generation back to the Soviet traditionalist conception of Russian culture”
January 28, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Founding editor of ДОЖДЬ @zygaro.bsky.social Columbia University: “the Ukrainian war is a war about the ‘I’ vs. the ‘we’ of Soviet culture, trying to draft the younger generation back to the Soviet traditionalist conception of Russian culture”
Attended New York Philharmonic concert this weekend. I went to see Bronfman play Schumann, as concert was advertised- did not notice Tchaikovsky imperialist 2nd Symphony on prog. I was horrified to see the program notes. How is this tone deaf imperialist Russian chauvinism possible in 2026?!?
January 21, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Attended New York Philharmonic concert this weekend. I went to see Bronfman play Schumann, as concert was advertised- did not notice Tchaikovsky imperialist 2nd Symphony on prog. I was horrified to see the program notes. How is this tone deaf imperialist Russian chauvinism possible in 2026?!?
Reposted by Katya Danziger
"Mask of Sorrow" sculpted by Ernst Niezvestny, dedicated to the memory of prisoners of the Gulag
Magadan, Russia
Magadan, Russia
February 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
"Mask of Sorrow" sculpted by Ernst Niezvestny, dedicated to the memory of prisoners of the Gulag
Magadan, Russia
Magadan, Russia
'Images cannot be ideas but they can play the part of signs, or, to be more precise, coexist with ideas in signs and, if ideas are not yet present, they can keep their future place open for them and make its contours apparent negatively' (John Berger on Ernst Niezvestny's work)
January 18, 2026 at 6:03 AM
'Images cannot be ideas but they can play the part of signs, or, to be more precise, coexist with ideas in signs and, if ideas are not yet present, they can keep their future place open for them and make its contours apparent negatively' (John Berger on Ernst Niezvestny's work)
“We should be looking to the sadness… We should be looking to the people who produced something beautiful when they didn’t have to.”
Gluttons for Punishment
Justin McDaniel has developed a cult following for getting his students to read — as long as they follow his rules.
www.vulture.com
January 8, 2026 at 1:14 PM
“We should be looking to the sadness… We should be looking to the people who produced something beautiful when they didn’t have to.”
Reposted by Katya Danziger
Leonard Cohen by Eric Mulet 1995 🖤
December 27, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Leonard Cohen by Eric Mulet 1995 🖤
Reposted by Katya Danziger
⚡️ Russia outlaws protest band Pussy Riot, labels it 'extremist.'
Nadya Tolokonnikova, a co-founder of the group, said the verdict aims "to erase Pussy Riot's very existence from the Russian consciousness."
Nadya Tolokonnikova, a co-founder of the group, said the verdict aims "to erase Pussy Riot's very existence from the Russian consciousness."
Russia outlaws protest band Pussy Riot, labels it 'extremist organization'
Nadya Tolokonnikova, a co-founder of the group, said the verdict aims "to erase Pussy Riot's very existence from the Russian consciousness."
kyivindependent.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
⚡️ Russia outlaws protest band Pussy Riot, labels it 'extremist.'
Nadya Tolokonnikova, a co-founder of the group, said the verdict aims "to erase Pussy Riot's very existence from the Russian consciousness."
Nadya Tolokonnikova, a co-founder of the group, said the verdict aims "to erase Pussy Riot's very existence from the Russian consciousness."
Where once we'd have to justify an unconventional production with a newspaper article, now it seems we must justify (even apologize for) a conventional/traditional one...
Via @nytimes.com
Via @nytimes.com
At the Met, Toasting With Traditional Puritans on New Year’s Eve
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Where once we'd have to justify an unconventional production with a newspaper article, now it seems we must justify (even apologize for) a conventional/traditional one...
Via @nytimes.com
Via @nytimes.com
“Heidegger felt poetry was most appropriate for discussing truth, as the natural process of pulling information, analyzing it, and pushing it back out might best be achieved without potentially false forced ontology. Keats loved the “negative capability” of Shakespeare…”
@six18sfoundry.bsky.social
@six18sfoundry.bsky.social
The Finding and Making of “Saints & Symbols”
When I read Sebald or Nabokov I am seated in my apartment in New Hope or maybe walking in Norwich, or the Congo, or Ithaca, or Zembla — or Eden. Are
www.thesmartset.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:52 AM
“Heidegger felt poetry was most appropriate for discussing truth, as the natural process of pulling information, analyzing it, and pushing it back out might best be achieved without potentially false forced ontology. Keats loved the “negative capability” of Shakespeare…”
@six18sfoundry.bsky.social
@six18sfoundry.bsky.social
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What they were teaching in young Dielman’s school
December 31, 2025 at 1:22 AM
What they were teaching in young Dielman’s school
The Madhymaka Prasangikas couldn’t have said it any better themselves…
“What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin
—Ursula K. Le Guin
December 31, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The Madhymaka Prasangikas couldn’t have said it any better themselves…
Ursula Le Guin on the subtle impermanence of phenomena:
"What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives."
#BuddhistPhilosophy #MiddleWay
"What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives."
#BuddhistPhilosophy #MiddleWay
December 31, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Ursula Le Guin on the subtle impermanence of phenomena:
"What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives."
#BuddhistPhilosophy #MiddleWay
"What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives."
#BuddhistPhilosophy #MiddleWay
Reposted by Katya Danziger
Your happy reminder that Marianne Faithfull was born on December 29, 1946; Patti Smith on the very next day. The universe speaking to us, through song.
December 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Your happy reminder that Marianne Faithfull was born on December 29, 1946; Patti Smith on the very next day. The universe speaking to us, through song.
Condolences to her entire family and all those who loved her… May her memory serve as a blessing…
Breaking News: Tatiana Schlossberg, an environmental journalist and child of Caroline Kennedy, died at 35. She recently wrote of her battle with leukemia in The New Yorker. nyti.ms/4pjDWiz
December 30, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Condolences to her entire family and all those who loved her… May her memory serve as a blessing…
RIP to a very brave soul and her young family. May her words serve as a reminder to never take this very precious human life for granted, even for a moment…
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:41 PM
RIP to a very brave soul and her young family. May her words serve as a reminder to never take this very precious human life for granted, even for a moment…
“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”
—Virginia Woolf, from The Letters of Virginia Woolf
—Virginia Woolf, from The Letters of Virginia Woolf
December 30, 2025 at 1:23 AM
“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”
—Virginia Woolf, from The Letters of Virginia Woolf
—Virginia Woolf, from The Letters of Virginia Woolf
Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
–Margaret Atwood
–Margaret Atwood
December 26, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
–Margaret Atwood
–Margaret Atwood
If that’s the world’s smartest man, God help us.
– Richard Feynman’s mother, Lucille Feynman, after Omni magazine named him the world’s smartest man.
– Richard Feynman’s mother, Lucille Feynman, after Omni magazine named him the world’s smartest man.
December 26, 2025 at 4:16 AM
If that’s the world’s smartest man, God help us.
– Richard Feynman’s mother, Lucille Feynman, after Omni magazine named him the world’s smartest man.
– Richard Feynman’s mother, Lucille Feynman, after Omni magazine named him the world’s smartest man.
Boris Johnson: "Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious"
December 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Boris Johnson: "Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious"
A piece that made me grateful for my NYTimes subscription… preserving the history of a certain late 20th century literary world that we likely won't see again. I mourn this loss every day as a Gen Z-er.
A Writer Who Dazzled on the Page but Lived for the Margins
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:33 AM
A piece that made me grateful for my NYTimes subscription… preserving the history of a certain late 20th century literary world that we likely won't see again. I mourn this loss every day as a Gen Z-er.
The right is making inroads with demographic groups typically associated with the Left (capital L): urbanites, artists, writers and Gen Z. Important piece to study as an example of how social scenes materialize into political realities.
Nick Allen, the founder of the event space Sovereign House, “is in this weird role where he’s kind of like an embassy in New York for us,” a young Trump official said. Read about the man behind the popular gathering spot for right-wing Zoomers. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/cguYAF
The Party Politics of Sovereign House
Nick Allen’s venue in Dimes Square was a popular gathering spot for right-wing Zoomers. Now he’s opening a new club called Reign, an attempt to build a lasting cultural institution.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
December 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The right is making inroads with demographic groups typically associated with the Left (capital L): urbanites, artists, writers and Gen Z. Important piece to study as an example of how social scenes materialize into political realities.