Fyodor Dostoevsky in happier times
This morning.
Milan, Italy.
The University of Milano-Bicocca has reversed a decision to postpone a course by writer Paolo Nori about the work of Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky following a backlash.
Via Newsweek:
Last night, the university released a statement on its social media accounts confirming the course would go ahead.
“The University of Milano-Bicocca is a university open to dialogue and listening even in this very difficult period that sees us dismayed at the escalation of the conflict,” the statement said.
“The course of the writer Paolo Nori is part of the writing course aimed at students and citizens who aim to develop transversal skills through forms of writing. The university confirms that this course will take place in the established groups and will deal with the contents already agreed with the writer. In addition, the rector of the university will meet Paolo Nori next week for a moment of reflection,” it said.
College Backtracks on Banning Teaching Dostoevsky Because He’s Russian (Newsweek)
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Cancel culture extending to entire countries now…
FFS when will people learn?
People are not their country, especially a man who died nearly 150 years ago FFS.
Putin is not Russia, Russia is not Putin.
Give it a bloody rest.
Ban these classics
What next the music ballet
Some of the greatest literature music dance is Russian
War and peace one of the greatest anti war masterpieces
To be replaced by what river dance and the beano
Indeed and I know a fair few Russians and the maddest thing is how they are like, almost the exact same as anyone else. Actually, I think they pretty much are the same as anyone else.
No horns, no forked tail or fangs. Just ordinary people, who knew?
Takes a special type of muppet to want to cancel stuff like this, will claim to be liberals, and still have no understanding of what they are asking for.
There is such a thing as the Covid mindset. It became a form of authoritarian “pensée unique” from which no deviation was tolerated.
It seems to have become well-entrenched, and to my mind this would be a perfect example of the lengths to which some or those people will go in their arrogance.
In the name of Democracy, of course.
This is a perfect example of that where… nothing happened? An obscure Italian college nobody has ever heard of before thought about doing it, everybody pointed out how stupid it was, and they quickly decided not to. What an authoritarian intolerance of deviation that turned out to be.
That’s right, Nigel, none of us has heard how your woke friends in the US have been “decolonising” curriculums, accusing entire sciences of being racist simply because Afro-Americans don’t do well in them & all the rest of their neo-fascist drivel. Shhhhh!
This is racist, fascist, lying drivel. It’s the reactionary right who are cleansing libraries and schools af anything that suggests there ever was or is racism in the US, criminalising abortion and trans people, and the rest of LGTBQ people won’t be far behind, but that’s ok, they’re using Puttin’s Russia as their model for the future of US democracy.
It was there long before Covid, even before Long Covid (snigger!). It’s called a few different things, Progressivism, Woke, Social Justice Warriors, but it amounts to the lunatics taking over the asylum, using Orwell & Huxley as instruction manuals, rather than prescient warnings.
Small-minded, ignorant, prescriptive, neo-fascists, controlled by Corporate Interests, it’s the Youth Wing of Globalism, though none of them seem to be aware of this fact or much else for that matter & instead see themselves as Revolutionaries, even though they’re entirely Reactionary supporters of the status quo.
You need a fairly low IQ to fall for their nonsense but, truth be told, the Irish have the lowest average IQs in Europe.
Are you sure you’re not just singlehandedly dragging the average down?
The Idiots!
This is a crime and there must be punishment.
Those poor folk are letting the daemons get the better of them… idiots
…come back Brothers…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/03/russia-cat-ban-ukraine-war/ it gets better.
This is ridiculous.
Genius headline. Up there with the Loo Trek one,
I’m in awe of the portrait above regardless of subject; I don’t want to use the internet to find out but I have Goya or Veláquez in mind – were it more religious I’d have considered El Greco.
… 1872 on closer inspection, Matisse?
Steph, a Russian (boo! hiss) gent called Perov: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Perov
Gosh, this turns me on to see such talent; so, Perov did a near *perfect* portrait of Dostoevsky, and Kramskoi did a near *perfect* portrait of Perov…
Sublime.
… but, there’s a date, name in the bottom right corner and I can’t find an enlarged image. The initial letters are Mat…
Obviously it wasn’t Matisse, my mistake; however, another near *perfect* portrait of Kramskoi was painted by Repin.
It’s a nice life being commissioned to paint men in any medium one chooses – I’d do it for free tbh, there’s nothing a few oil based brushstrokes can’t rectify.