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Society and Politics
The Soviet Colonial Myth of “Friendship of Peoples”
imperial ideology under the cover of an “emancipatory” smoke screen
Art
New Tunnels in the Piles of Garbage
Reflections by Alex Buldakov on the all-terrain nature of humanity, through the lens of Anastasia Ryabova’s project Star Road (2013 — ongoing)
Society and Politics
Convergent Apologists: Hasan Piker, Tucker Carlson and the Shared Rhetoric That Rationalizes Russian aggression against Ukraine
artur.sumarokov1.6K🔥
Understanding that convergence is essential for anyone who wants to defend factual discourse, democratic sovereignty and the principle that borders cannot be changed by force
THE RED OCTOPUS
How communist, leftist movements justify the seizure of territories and the destabilization of power in the EECCNA region by the contemporary, putinist russia. Maria Dmitrieva
Art
Fragile as hell
rotaenko762
Essay. Written by Anna Rotaenko, editing and commentary by Aleksandar Kuzmanov. 2026
Music and Sound
The Appropriation Artist: Madonna and the Art of Cultural Consumption
Madonna’s career represents the apotheosis of cultural appropriation as an artistic strategy.
Music and Sound
The Concrete
Autistic trance as the method for artistic cognition. On the creative foundation of Solaire by Lux Solaire.
Cinema and Video
The Transgression of Dictatorship in Lucio Rojas’s Trauma
Trauma does not offer a theory of dictatorship’s transgression. It performs one
Self-Organization
Vertical predation: Political economy dimension of municipal reform in Russia
Text is about internal processes inside Russian society, which are sources of discontentt — extant and potential, and basis for future revolution
Art
The Coexistence of Physical and Digital in Art Presentation (The Case of Thomas Ruff)
Alina Budnikova1.4K🔥
The author examines how digitalization blurs the distinction between physical and virtual art, using Thomas Ruff’s jpeg series as a case study
Cinema and Video
The Ontology of the Unreal: Faux-Snuff as a Window onto the Real
artur.sumarokov1.4K🔥
This image is not a philosophical argument but an aesthetic experience, a felt encounter with the inhuman
Poetry
Elena Stashkova: An Incredible Adventure in Search of a Symbol to Save the World (ENG) / Елена Сташкова: Невероятные приключения в поисках символа для спасения мира (RUS)
Play / Пьеса
Art
Alla prima meditations on Aziza Kadyri’s "Play Nice" (London, January 2026)
Some thoughts on Aziza Kadyri’s Somerset House exhibition, pondering also Worldbuilding and Quantum Histories.
Philosophy and Humanities
Why Russian?
stepp_over2.7K🔥
An attempt to unmask and dismantle violent language policies: the case of Russian
Art
Selected Sentences on Landscape
Gleb Simonov1.3K🔥
From a series of fragmented writing on the onthology of land
Philosophy and Humanities
On Women’s Non-/Ordination in the Orthodox Church
Igor Manannikov3.1K🔥
Women in the Orthodox Priesthood: Untangling the Controversy
Special projects
Collections of texts, multimedia materials and special events prepared by the editorial board together with the syg.ma community or our institutional partners
Сноска
Коллекция учебных пособий, методичек и справочников, которые делают недоступное знание доступным
Atlas
The project mapping out complex systems of power, translocal entanglements, and tacit networks of solidarity
Tashkent-Tbilisi
A research archive of the history and contemporary culture of Central Eurasia
