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The Israeli–Palestinian Conflict
Leon Ospald. Thoughts on Gaza
Leon Ospald2.8K🔥
Personal reflection on Germany’s historical responsibility and its response to the current war
Technology and Science
Russian bureaucratic apparatus as a stalker
A routine request from the Russian state reminded me that even after leaving, the bureaucratic apparatus still knows my name and can make fear resurface in ways that feel irrational but very real.
Society and Politics
Lost in the Middle: Whatever Happened to Class?
How are our lives bound together through systems of labor, value, and dispossession?
партия мёртвых
on the queerness of the dead (necromeditation)
text of a necromeditation delivered at ‘the queer takeover’ soli party in berlin on december 6, 2025
Art
Istanbul Biennial 18 - between imperatives
k_tschern564
“A three-legged Cat” show as balancing between political pressure and the constraints of institutional framework
Cinema and Video
The Production of Emptiness
lizakin514
On Harun Farocki, Ho Tzu Nyen, and the Migratory Image
Cinema and Video
Dariuss: Spectral Beings and the Eternal Echoes of Loss in Guerrilla Metropolitana's Experimental Horror
artur.sumarokov1.6K🔥
Dariuss masterfully entwines ontology’s thrown being with hauntology’s spectral calls, rendering grief a machinery where existence is ghostly prosthesis
Art
Forgotten Voices
de_colonialanguage2.5K🔥
Tatar prisoners of war in the imperial strategies and colonial tactics of German and Russian Empires
Society and Politics
Statement from Russian-speaking anarchists to Western anarchist initiatives: listen to the Ukrainian comrades!
Антиджоб1.5K🔥
This text is a collective statement of Russian-speaking anarchist collectives (see the list of signatories below)
Self-Organization
Sandinista! To Our Friends, 20 Years Later
Remembering Timur Kacharava, an anti-fascist and musician who was killed 20 years ago, his comrades try to interpret their own “experience of loss and defeat as a collective promise charged with hope”...
Society and Politics
PSL, For the Common Good of all
As a response to Galina Rymbu’s text “Nothing in Common”
Art
In-between Spaces. Repairing and Motion
de_colonialanguage1.8K🔥
spotting and inhabiting cracks for living in hostile environments: a few practical tips for those in need
Cinema and Video
Where are you, Megan?
“Megan Is Missing” isn’t just a film; it’s a fracture in the facade, a call to rebuild before the next chat pings with doom.
Philosophy and Humanities
Strange Embrace: Paradoxes of Homosexual Desire in the Third Reich
This essay examines how Nazism simultaneously suppressed and sexualized male-to-male relationships—a paradox of authoritarian masculinity that continues to shape contemporary politics
The occupied territories of Sakartvelo: the infrastructure of Russian military bases and the kidnapping of people along the occupation line
An overview of Russian military bases along the occupation line. Sakartvelo’s policy. Creeping occupation
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
и-флакс
Обновляемая подборка переводов на русский текстов журнала о современном искусстве, культуре и теории e-flux
Tashkent-Tbilisi
A research archive of the history and contemporary culture of Central Eurasia
Atlas
The project mapping out complex systems of power, translocal entanglements, and tacit networks of solidarity
