This essay distinguishes flight as a salient trope throughout multiple Pelevin texts: Omon Ra (1992), Chapaev and the Void (1996), Generation P (1999), Empire V (2006), Love for Three Zuckerbrins (2014). It examines through aesthetics of sublime—classical, (post)-Soviet, postmodern. The “aerial sublime” focuses on motifs flight, elevation, their reversal such descent going underground. Through ...

This article makes the case that sublime plays a more important part in poetry of Ovid, and its reception, than is generally acknowledged. It surveys Ovid's use word sublimis, from early amatory to exilic poetry, argues it often connotes sublimity as an aesthetic ideological category. Within Metamorphoses particular attention given Phaethon episode (whose well recognized) storm Ceyx Alcyone (wh...

The past century has witnessed the emergence of expressive musical forms that originate in appropriated technologies and practices. In most cases, this appropriation is performed without protest— but not always. Carefully negotiating a space for sound as an objective, scientific medium, the field of sonification has cautiously guarded the term from subjective and affective endeavors. This paper...