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Art
a Thousand Mother Tongues Tree
a discourse on logic of belonging between language of alienation and almost erased mother tongue
Philosophy and Humanities
On Meiu’s Ethno-Erotic Economies and Feminist Ethnographic Contexts
MaximBulanov151
A critical review of George Paul Meiu’s Ethno-Erotic Economies, exploring how sexuality, money, and belonging intersect within systems of power and postcolonial modernity
Philosophy and Humanities
The Concept of Free Orthodoxy
My goal is to attempt to find a perspective on the Orthodox Tradition that allows us to perceive, and perhaps to realize in practice, the liberating nature of the Orthodox faith and life
Poetry
Anna Podchashy. Deszczilód i snegodożd'
Translations from poet Anna Podchashy and a little preface about the new type of organizing contemporary Polish poetry by Lisa Kheresh
The Israeli–Palestinian Conflict
Leon Ospald. Thoughts on Gaza
Leon Ospald2K🔥
Personal reflection on Germany’s historical responsibility and its response to the current war
Society and Politics
fragmented abolitionist speech
a speech written for the rally “Prison Days” in Graz on 21.6.2025
Cinema and Video
Murder-Set-Pieces asap
artur.sumarokov1.7K🔥
“Murder-Set-Pieces” in its variations encapsulates the spectrum of horror—from tame entertainment to boundary-pushing art
Art
Outcast Garden
rotaenko1.5K🔥
I played the desperate female-migrant-artist, the owner of the place played the tyrant — that’s basically the story
Music and Sound
Voices Otherwise: Translocal Sounds
Circassian sound archives collected by ORED Recordings in the space of knowledge production
Music and Sound
Sponsored by Bleed Corp™
A soft-larping soul on a hero’s journey through the soft ruins and vibrating sounds of the Fourth or First World
Art
Soviet in Russian Culture: Obsession with the Past or Denial of the Future?
anna azens636
Yet contemporary Russian culture unmistakably exists in the shadow of the Soviet Union, often camouflaged under a glossy veneer
Society and Politics
Esej. Protest u dizajnu: iluzije i zaključci.
Nikita Demin443
Kratki esej o protestu u dizajnu — o tišini, odbijanju i otporu u svetu forme, stila i komercijalne estetike. Prevod članka sa ruskog jezika
Society and Politics
Voices Otherwise: Yalt
meditations on Three Suns and one Rain in Chuvash tradition
Society and Politics
Hard to Imagine. A Reflection on the Relationship Between Servants and Power
Leon Ospald1.8K🔥
Why would anyone want to become a professional butler?
The Israeli–Palestinian Conflict
The Curse of Silence: About Haim Sokol’s Underground Exhibition in Tel Aviv
Nelly Shulman1.4K🔥
The true artist, as opposed to the propagandist, serves as a chronicler—capturing desperate cries for help or the impenetrable wall of silence
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
