Urban Lament: Collective Expressions of Pain, Rage, and Affection together leading Russian literary thinker Valery

leading Russian literary thinker Valery Podoroga shows how profoundly the Soviet experiment overturned the traditional expectations of fiction and poetry

descriptions of writers’ homes

which at the beginning of the twentieth century abolished the opposition between free and mechanical people

so publishing their process in making a single kite seemed like a natural expression of their affection towards these wonderful objects

Urban Lament: Collective Expressions of Pain, Rage, and Affection together leading Russian literary thinker ValeryLamentation practices can empower the potentiality to defy patriarchal orders ruling everyday life. Always a collective process, lamentation inscribes loss and vulnerability by tending bridges towards the world of the dead and the more than human. Gestures such as singing or breathing, gathering, and performances that exceed rationality can inspire a renewed approach to life and death, rural and urban. After all, amidst ongoing processes of