Subsuming my Elektrichkaland Project Into an Automythopsychgeobiography
I haven't written anything on this blog mainly because after my previous post my time in Russian ended, provoked by the countries invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022. Leaving the town of Balashikha in late March, I also left behind much of the material (books, printed articles, and other collected materials) which I had collected in order to write on the subject. I also intended for psychogeographical walks to be a major part of my project. However, this project occasionally returns in my mind - it is an impossible project and yet I can not quite bury it. It looks for other outlets. I try to imagine a Ligurian elektrichka land from Sarzana to Ventimiglia (given that I am based here). Yet, there appears no way of subsuming such a project. And yet there is something about the project which I can not leave altogether. In recent days I have been musing over/recalling other places and encounters that were important to me before I move...