About
In addition to blogging here, Anatoly Karlin also runs Arctic Progress.
You can also read his articles at Inosmi (на русском) and Al Jazeera.
Book Project
[progpress title="A History of the 21st Century" goal="100000" current="8216" previous="6724" label="words" separator=" of "]@facebook
Blogroll
- Blogroll (1)
- Collapse & Apocalypse (14)
- Da Russophile (Best Russia Sites) (29)
- A Good Treaty
- Austere Insomniac
- Demoscope Journal (Ru.)
- Expert Russia Discussion Group
- Johnson's Russia List
- Kremlin Stooge
- Levada Polls (Ru.)
- Mark Adomanis
- poemless, the blog
- Power Vertical
- Robert Amsterdam
- Rosstat (Ru.)
- Russia Monitor
- Russia Watchers
- Russia Watchers
- Russia: Other Points of View
- Sean's Russia Blog
- Siberian Light
- Streetwise Professor
- Sublime Oblivion @ InoSMI
- Truth and Beauty
- Economics (25)
- Energy & Environment (18)
- Friends of AK (12)
- humor (4)
- News & Analysis (11)
- russia (24)
- Russia Blogs (67)
- 3000 Versts of Loneliness
- A Good Treaty
- GUS News (De.)
- Ivanov Report
- Johnson's Russia List
- Kremlin Stooge
- Mark Adomanis
- Mat Rodina
- Mike Averko
- Misha's Russia Blog
- Moscow Tory
- Nicolai Petro
- Peter Lavelle
- poemless, the blog
- Power Vertical
- Robert Amsterdam
- RUSOURCE
- Russia Blog
- Russia Economy Watch
- Russia in the Media
- Russia Monitor
- Russia Watchers
- Russia Watchers
- Russia's Nuclear Forces
- Russia: Other Points of View
- Russian Victories
- Sean's Russia Blog
- Siberian Light
- Sublime Oblivion (Ru.)
- Sublime Oblivion @ InoSMI
- Truth and Beauty
- Vilhelm Konnander
- Stats (21)
- Sublime Links (51)
- A Fistful of Euros
- A Good Treaty
- Archdruid Report
- Austere Insomniac
- China Brief
- Climate Progress
- Cost of Energy
- Danger Room (Wired)
- Demoscope Journal (Ru.)
- Eurasia Daily Monitor
- eXiled online
- Expert Russia Discussion Group
- Fabius Maximus
- Kurzweil AI
- Levada Polls (Ru.)
- Mark Adomanis
- Oil Drum
- poemless, the blog
- Power Vertical
- Real Clear World
- Robert Amsterdam
- Rosstat (Ru.)
- Russia: Other Points of View
- Scholar's Stage
- Sean's Russia Blog
- Siberian Light
- Strategy Page
- STRATFOR
- Streetwise Professor
- Truth and Beauty
- Sublime Oblivion Links (32)
- There Will Be War! (8)
- Towards Singularity (11)
- Blogroll (1)
Tag Archives: philosophy
Green Communism
Thesis. The current capitalist-industrial System is incapable of surmounting the limits to growth on planet Earth because markets and technology, today’s salvation gospel, are no deus ex machina to the energy-and-pollution predicament of industrial civilization. Nor is this System in principle … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged chaos, collapse, communism, cuba, culture, economy, energy, environment, finance, human rights, imperialism, life, marxism, matrix, morale, philosophy, politics, rant, singularity, technology, vision
13 Comments
Interview @ Siberian Light
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged collapse, core article, human rights, imperialism, interview, liberasty, life, me, morale, philosophy, politics, putin, rant, resource depletion, russia, russians, russophobes, singularity, soviet union, usa, western hypocrisy, western media
Comments Off
Zizek’s Metapolitics
Slavoj Žižek is one of today’s most brilliant philosophers. There’s no disputing that he sounds rambling and incoherent, but far from being off-putting, it forces one to consider (decipher?) his words all the more carefully. Indeed, the material and ideas … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged authoritarianism, communism, crime, culture, history, human rights, imperialism, marxism, matrix, philosophy, politics, singularity, soviet union, stalin, vision, western hypocrisy
3 Comments
Defending the Loop
Following my posting of Russia’s Sisyphean Loop, the influential East-Central Europe expert, Vlad Sobell, wrote up an interesting critique at the Untimely Thoughts Russia Discussion Group. It addresses what may be considered some weak, or at least not thoroughly explained, … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged authoritarianism, climate change, collapse, energy, guest, history, philosophy, russia, vision
4 Comments
Philosophical Musings #1
1. Long Live Death! Why is everyone so afraid of death? Granted, it is directly opposed to our instinct of self-preservation; but in reality, our intellect should recognize it as the road to the ultimate freedom – a world free … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged authoritarianism, copies, matrix, philosophy
8 Comments
Diasporas and Barbarians
During one conversation at Sean’s Russia Blog, the commentator Evgeny referred me to a work by Russian political analyst & nationalist Konstantin Krylov, Поведение (“Behavior”). In it he tries to classify the world’s civilizations into four ethical systems (South – … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged chaos, collapse, history, israel, jews, liberasty, life, morale, philosophy, russians
8 Comments
The Struggle between Europe and Mankind
Though Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890-1938) remains more famous for his contributions to the field of linguistics, his other great achievement was as one of the founding fathers of the Eurasian movement. Riding on the dark wave of disillusionment sweeping the world in … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged communism, corruption, culture, germany, human rights, imperialism, international relations, japan, liberasty, marxism, morale, philosophy, putin, russians, russophobes, vision, western hypocrisy
13 Comments
The Belief Matrix
Consequent to my post Categorizing the Russia Debate and the lively debate it spawned, it occurred to me that much of Russia’s tortured and intriguing history could be rationalized as a self-reinforcing loop within a belief matrix. This can even … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged chaos, climate change, collapse, geopolitics, history, human rights, islam, matrix, morale, peak oil, philosophy, resource depletion, science, usa, vision
12 Comments
Categorizing the Russia Debate
Here I will try to categorize all the major Russia-watching schools along two axes: 1) a Russophobe – Russophile axis and 2) a values spectrum on attitudes towards the West as a universal mental matrix. Along these lines I created … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged blogging, core article, liberasty, morale, philosophy, rant, russians, russophobes, science, vision
80 Comments
Translation: The Case of the “Stalinist” Textbook
NOTE: This article TRANSLATION: A. Filippov on ‘Debates about Stalin’s Role’ in A New History of Russia 1945-2006 is available in pdf format. Ever since the publication of Filippov’s (in)famous textbook A History of Russia 1945-2006 in 2007, the state … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Translations
Tagged baltics, communism, culture, education, history, human rights, liberasty, philosophy, politics, russians, russophobes, ukraine, western hypocrisy, western media
52 Comments