S. Biareishyk
@sbiar.bsky.social
Spinoza and Marx; German Romanticism; Soviet culture; Formalism and Morphology. I teach stuff at UPenn.
Your Excellencies, Your Worships, Your Honors, and Citizens, the Emperor and Autocrat of All the States, Ruler of Washington and Mar-o-Logo, the Chairman of Culture and Education, is cutting the beards!
September 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Your Excellencies, Your Worships, Your Honors, and Citizens, the Emperor and Autocrat of All the States, Ruler of Washington and Mar-o-Logo, the Chairman of Culture and Education, is cutting the beards!
Wait, is cheering for St Pauli illegal in the US? Or can get you fired? … asking for a friend.
September 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Wait, is cheering for St Pauli illegal in the US? Or can get you fired? … asking for a friend.
Is anyone translating this?
June 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Is anyone translating this?
straight to the gulag
June 14, 2025 at 8:48 PM
straight to the gulag
As Spring semester is wrapping up, this is what my Fall semesters looks like:
April 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
As Spring semester is wrapping up, this is what my Fall semesters looks like:
Timoshenko (in Ivan the Terrible) as Foucault
February 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Timoshenko (in Ivan the Terrible) as Foucault
Tried to explain to the kiddos how "literature" works, the formalist edition
February 8, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Tried to explain to the kiddos how "literature" works, the formalist edition
Climate catastrophe, genocide, inflation.
The Democratic Party:
The Democratic Party:
January 17, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Climate catastrophe, genocide, inflation.
The Democratic Party:
The Democratic Party:
My Emotional Support Dead Famous Guy does in fact say a lot about me —
January 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
My Emotional Support Dead Famous Guy does in fact say a lot about me —
Anthropocene vs. Capitalocene
November 25, 2024 at 2:06 AM
Anthropocene vs. Capitalocene
Althusser sent Ilyenkov signed copies of Reading Capital and For Marx. All Ilyenkov did is answer with a critique of Althusser's argument on historicism in Marx.
November 12, 2024 at 7:10 PM
Althusser sent Ilyenkov signed copies of Reading Capital and For Marx. All Ilyenkov did is answer with a critique of Althusser's argument on historicism in Marx.
What my semester looks like, for better or for worse.
January 13, 2024 at 1:23 AM
What my semester looks like, for better or for worse.
Did this a year ago on other site, but it would be a fun exercise with new friends here: What are the recurring book covers, in series or publishers, that arouse for you involuntary chill/excitement? For me, UofMinnesota "Theory and History of Literature" is still somewhere at the top of the list.
October 5, 2023 at 5:20 PM
Did this a year ago on other site, but it would be a fun exercise with new friends here: What are the recurring book covers, in series or publishers, that arouse for you involuntary chill/excitement? For me, UofMinnesota "Theory and History of Literature" is still somewhere at the top of the list.
Post a meme made by you
October 1, 2023 at 1:55 PM
Post a meme made by you
Had a whole field of wood blewits in front of me. Thought suspicious, only to return home to find out they’re edible. Blew it.
October 1, 2023 at 2:48 AM
Had a whole field of wood blewits in front of me. Thought suspicious, only to return home to find out they’re edible. Blew it.
Suggesting to the press that this should be the cover image of my book.
September 28, 2023 at 4:18 PM
Suggesting to the press that this should be the cover image of my book.
The other site proved completely useless. Any Transformers experts on here?
September 24, 2023 at 1:37 PM
The other site proved completely useless. Any Transformers experts on here?
I've been intensely craving chanterelles (tis the season, and I'm in the wrong part of the world). I went to the mushroom dealer at the local farmer's market, and he gave me theses ("they are from the same family") -- anyone know what they are? what to do with them? is this some northeast thing?
September 10, 2023 at 1:51 AM
I've been intensely craving chanterelles (tis the season, and I'm in the wrong part of the world). I went to the mushroom dealer at the local farmer's market, and he gave me theses ("they are from the same family") -- anyone know what they are? what to do with them? is this some northeast thing?
When the semester starts in less than a week but you are still trying to finish your writing projects.
August 25, 2023 at 10:30 PM
When the semester starts in less than a week but you are still trying to finish your writing projects.
The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.
August 23, 2023 at 1:18 AM
The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.
Teaching my course on Marx again, and thinking of recycling a poster from a few years back. Passable? Or is it cringe? Memes too stale?
August 18, 2023 at 2:22 PM
Teaching my course on Marx again, and thinking of recycling a poster from a few years back. Passable? Or is it cringe? Memes too stale?
What we need to know is how they don’t end up in spam when mass emailing like that, for propaganda purposes.
August 10, 2023 at 12:16 AM
What we need to know is how they don’t end up in spam when mass emailing like that, for propaganda purposes.
State of the discipline
August 4, 2023 at 7:42 PM
State of the discipline
Italians put their footnotes after the quotation mark, BEFORE the punctuation, IN THE MIDDLE OF A SENTENCE--psychotic.
July 26, 2023 at 12:09 AM
Italians put their footnotes after the quotation mark, BEFORE the punctuation, IN THE MIDDLE OF A SENTENCE--psychotic.