Papers by Serhii Tereshchenko
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Natalka Vorozhbyt’s "Bad Roads" (2020) is a film about Donetsk, the biggest city in Eas... more Natalka Vorozhbyt’s "Bad Roads" (2020) is a film about Donetsk, the biggest city in Eastern Ukraine, six-seven years after its occupation.
This is my MA thesis, in which I describe a district that was built to create a new type of citiz... more This is my MA thesis, in which I describe a district that was built to create a new type of citizens, people who were able to work in a control room, a particular type of architecture that required visual training. Rusanivka was one of such projects, a space which creates and organizes a community for multitasking and collaborative work.
In contemporary criticism, interpretation gained a safe position because it was almost free of ju... more In contemporary criticism, interpretation gained a safe position because it was almost free of judgment. With writers like Daniil Kharms, this became a significant issue. Some scholars saw his absurd stories as defensive, irrational, or political. According to Henri Bergson, the main source of inspiration for Kharms, comic effect is a psychological reaction to an idea that the recipient cannot process at the time. As I will argue, Kharms’s method is not to dismiss human ratio but to test the limits of perception. Absurd is not irrational but rather a-logical, so to say, analogical. Therefore, absurd disguises and transcends logic that must be recovered before the critic interprets the text. I am challenging critics with Kharms’s short story “Black Water” (“Chernaya Voda”). By applying Jean Piaget’s approach from Experiments in Contradiction, I am going to prove that any interpretation goes through the following stages: brain-storming when a critic tries to make sense of the content; then, creating of a binary opposition and broadening it to explain the hardest contradictions; and, finally, making exceptions and defending the hypothesis despite any remaining incongruence. Therefore, this paper has two goals: first, to show the latent capacity of the absurd to behold and encrypt defined meanings; second, to position interpretation as the process of creating knowledge within which fallacies can be consciously addressed.
This is an essay about pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian bookstores fighting a cultural war. I invest... more This is an essay about pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian bookstores fighting a cultural war. I investigate the strategies they use.
Book Reviews by Serhii Tereshchenko
Pelevin’s central question is hard to ignore: “Why can’t we build an ideal world?” As the story u... more Pelevin’s central question is hard to ignore: “Why can’t we build an ideal world?” As the story unfolds, he explores how simulacra have changed human life.
Drafts by Serhii Tereshchenko
The limitations of Freud's psychoanalysis in the interpretation of day and night dreaming
Thesis Chapters by Serhii Tereshchenko
Dissertation, 2023
This dissertation examines Soviet and Polish science fiction of the 1960s-1980 as a political gen... more This dissertation examines Soviet and Polish science fiction of the 1960s-1980 as a political genre focused on the issues of power and societal organization. It argues that the main political effect of this literature was associated with the introduction of multiple tropes and concepts of alterity, such as aliens and alien civilizations, artificial intelligence, anisotropic universe, the unknown and the non-human. Along these lines, the dissertation also discusses such idiosyncratic science-fictional concepts as the bull and progressor serving as metaphors for intelligentsia and its positioning vis-à-vis power in the given society.
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