Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

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And I think this this episode is actually going to largely consist of me reading a Jorge Luis Borges short story titled Tlon Akbar Orbis Tertius.

So I want to make that available to people and I'm putting it in the RSS feed and in the podcast so that people can listen to it.

Uh, in an audio only version, if they don't want to, uh, watch it on YouTube or listen to it on YouTube.

Uh, so library of Babel, you know, it's a Borges story.

It's a good one.

Um, but this one, Talon, Uckbar, Orbis Tertius, I think is, is, um, one of my favorites, um, And yeah, like I said, I want to make the reading available to people to listen to.

So whatever platform you're on, if you would like to, I don't know, leave a comment somewhere.

Well, another article, very interesting one, is by Sebuha Arslanyan.

It's called Tlon Okbar Ganzasar Notes on the Imaginary Land Called Caucasian Albania.

And using Borges' imagined world of Tlon as a lens, Sebuha examines Azerbaijan's decades-long reinvention of Caucasian Albania, arguing that a fabricated historical narrative has been deployed to appropriate Armenian heritage, erase the region's Armenian past, and reshape the South Caucasus in the present.

Basically, he's saying that these imaginary worlds that he's created, the author has created, have become real at one point.

And this is exactly what's happening with this Azerbaijani strategy where kind of the imagination as this narrative is being reinforced in reality somehow.