Notes Toward a Schizoanalysis of Russian Literature
This paper is an introduction to Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s theory of schizoanalysis through the use of Russian literature, particularly Lev Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina and Andrey Platonov’s Dzhan. The process of schizoanalysis is detailed in a notoriously obfuscating style in Deleuze and Guattari’s…
The Crime of Re-Africanizing Candomble
A Look at the State of Brazil’s Culture-Defining Religion by Malcolm McCannon In the heart of Brazil is a religion that keeps the country’s blood pumping. From 1570 to 1888, the culture of slavery dominated the country, asphyxiating Brazil’s social development. To feel like…
Beat American Eternity Boiler
An exposition on eternity, love, separate halves becoming united, growth, and progress based on the words of members of distinct groups in famous American literary circles culminating in the Beats, preceded by the Transcendentalists and Lost Generation, and followed by those that can most…