https://sonechka.bouvardia.blue/ my book reviews and blog. en-us Sun, 10 May 2026 20:30:00 EST betrayed my "small web" purity and started a substack. I'm too comfortable sending my writing to the void, it's more embarrassing to send writing to the void on social media but I will endure it to leave my comfort-zone and for the chance of attention. anything I post there will have already been posted on my website so the only reason to subscribe is for my pleasure -- that's a good reason in my opinion. https://substack.com/@princemysh Marta Sun, 10 May 2026 6:55:00 EST It has to be remembered that Nazism was not defeated by an internal rebellion -- one of the great shocks post-WW2 was that the masses could accept and even embrace their repression under Fascism, and would even be faster to accept Fascism than the revolutionary promises of Communism. https://sonechka.bouvardia.blue/blog/right-wing-women Marta Wed, 6 May 2026 7:20:00 EST what I've understood from my reading of Speculum of the other woman thus far: only men have access to identification, to recognizing sameness in the other and the laws that organize this sameness, to an "acting" that recognizes untruthfulness and truthfulness (the law again). https://sonechka.bouvardia.blue/blog/performative-women Marta Tue, 5 May 2026 11:55:00 EST picrel https://sonechka.bouvardia.blue/blog/annotations-library-foucault Marta Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:05:00 EST whenever I browse a webring it feels like 90% of the sites are no more than a home and an about page. it's ok if people are more interested in web design than writing but it's not my taste. wordy webwring is for sites that host a lot of writing, whatever the genre. please apply if that sounds like you! https://sonechka.bouvardia.blue/blog/wordy-webring Marta Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:15:00 EST I started a french blog for practice. I won't spam the feed with its updates, though, besides this one. https://sonechka.bouvardia.blue/fr/journal Marta Mon, 13 Apr 2026 9:35:00 EST I recently read Feminism or death by Francoise d'Eaubonne and I was underwhelmed. https://sonechka.bouvardia.blue/blog/be-a-useless-woman Marta Thu, 9 Apr 2026 19:10:00 EST in my last blog, I wrote about what Susan Sontag calls the defining genre in the western development of theater, the metaplay. https://sonechka.bouvardia.blue/blog/speculum-of-the-other-woman Marta Thu, 19 Mar 2026 8:20:00 EST The easiest and the laziest approach to art is to interpret its content psychologically or politically. https://sonechka.bouvardia.blue/blog/political-art-is-not-political Marta Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:00:00 EST What destined me to the infinite cycle of writing and reading was the evolution unit in eleventh grade biology. https://sonechka.bouvardia.blue/blog/evolution-and-me Marta Tue, 10 Mar 2026 8:00:00 EST "These desires for distance and distinction underwrite man's ancient investment in sight, and the evidence of his eyes." https://sonechka.bouvardia.blue/blog/2-quotes-on-eyes Marta Sun, 8 Mar 2026 14:05:00 EST my dad in yugoslavia was gifting flowers to the women in his life on the eighth of march. https://sonechka.bouvardia.blue/blog/march-8-womens-day Marta Fri, 20 feb 2026 6:40:00 EST me and my boyfriend made a house for my calico critters. https://sonechka.bouvardia.blue/blog/rabbit-dollhouse Marta Sat, 14 feb 2026 10:05:00 EST I downloaded obsidian only to see my blogs in its graph view. https://sonechka.bouvardia.blue/blog/indieweb-carnival-intersecting-interests Marta Thu, 12 feb 2026 17:10:00 EST Emily Dickinson, Bhartṛhari. https://sonechka.bouvardia.blue/blog/2-poems Marta Tue, 10 feb 2026 14:55:00 EST I talked about the folklore-inspired budenovka hat of the red army in my post about Viktor Vasnetsov. https://sonechka.bouvardia.blue/blog/3-ww2-posters Marta Mon, 2 feb 2026 19:30:00 EST A compilation of notes from the university french classes I took after completing Ontario's french immersion program. https://sonechka.bouvardia.blue/blog/french-notes Marta Wed, 28 jan 2026 19:00:00 EST Abstract art is attractive for its ideas, the ideas that Kazimir Malevich explained to be pure creation as opposed to art's typical imitation of nature. https://sonechka.bouvardia.blue/blog/graphs Marta Wed, 21 jan 2026 17:05:00 EST I have been reading Dead Souls by Gogol and I noticed his very liberal use of metaphors. https://sonechka.bouvardia.blue/blog/several-gogols Marta Sat, 17 jan 2026 12:00:00 EST Modern art seems to be simultaneously accused of being too serious and not serious enough. https://sonechka.bouvardia.blue/blog/modern-art-is-fun Marta Thu, 15 jan 2026 16:10:00 EST I came across "pip o" one way or another out of an interest in children's art. https://sonechka.bouvardia.blue/blog/several-animals Marta Tue, 6 jan 2026 13:15:00 EST in the bjork archives it was said that bjork was influenced by georges bataille's story of the eye. https://sonechka.bearblog.dev/the-solar-anus-and-before-sunrise/ Marta Tue, 30 dec 2025 19:05:00 EST last semester, I took a class on baroque art, though it was never an art movement I liked. https://sonechka.bearblog.dev/chekhov-and-genre-painting/ Marta Mon, 29 dec 2025 8:10:00 EST For Christmas, my boyfriend got me the "Bjork archives," a collection of writings on Bjork published for the MoMA Bjork exhibition. https://sonechka.bearblog.dev/bjork-archives-and-lacan/ Marta Sun, 28 dec 2025 8:30:00 EST I began this year exclusively watching movies from the soviet era to mostly falling for the novelty of 2025 release dates. https://sonechka.bouvardia.blue/blog/movies-2025 Marta Fri, 26 dec 2025 18:40:00 EST I read demons recently, and it reminded me of my favourite godard movie, la chinoise. https://sonechka.bearblog.dev/dostoevsky-fanart/ Marta