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2005. discursive visions and pipe dreams: the Sublime in Post-Soviet Conceptualism of Dmitri Prigov: prigov's 2003 swiss installation exhibition used to investigate the potency of the sublime in current moscovite conceptual art scene rooted in postmodern visual-textual tension.

2003. higher and higher: 1930’s Aviation Photography at the Service of Soviet Nationalism: cult of the worker and promotion of early Soviet culture through photography.

2002. How to Write Occult Metal Lyrics Without Sounding Like an Idiot OR a Look at Absu and Babylon Whores: self-explanatory, don't you think? A less stylistically restrictive metal article. Guess how long THIS one is! (:-O

 

  


2002. Early Soviet Poster Design: this excruciatingly long, well-illustrated essay served as one of my graphic design undergraduate thesis projects. It is a historic overview of late 19th-early 20th c. Russian art, social realism, poster design, and the history of totalitarianism. Are you metal enough to read it?

2000. The persistence of Viking traditions in Odin-related art throughout the Christianization process: I must've succumbed to one too many black metal albums when I wrote this one.