War teaches us nothing. War always goes against the logic of life. It sends us to the very bottom of existence: food, sleep, purity, short-lived love, clearly rhyming with death. War takes home and a sense of security on an ontological level. Convenience and measuredness, a learned positive attitude is impossible. Optimism is apophatic.
Natalia Fedorova Ph.D. in Literary Theory (Herzen University), Postdocs (University of Bergen and MIT); former faculty member of Smolny MA in Curatorial […]