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Syg.ma is a community-run multilingual media platform and translocal archive.
Since 2014, researchers, artists, collectives, and cultural institutions have been publishing their work here
Pinned posts
Society and Politics
Slavoj Žižek on the problem of inactivity
Why can’t we transform all the knowledge about the ongoing crisis into a real action?
Philosophy and Humanities
Gap between Image and Reality. P. l.
A text describing artistic practice that combines performative and ideomotor actions aimed at comprehending and revealing the problems of the concept “Gap between Image and Reality”
Society and Politics
The Mission of Anarchism in the Modern World
On April 19, 2023, Dmitry Petrov, anti-fascist and anarchist, was killed in a battle near Bakhmut. In memory of Dmitry, we are publishing his text “The Mission of Anarchism in the Modern World”
Art
Learning to Hear Memories that Talk in Whispers
Dedicated to my grandparents: Olga and Vasily Bubich, Maria and Stanislaw Kozel, Illiya Golikov
Транслокальные диалоги / Translocal Dialogues
A conversation that can happen at any moment (with you as well)
Conversation between Ruthia Jenrbekova and Galina Rymbu about nomadism, broken ties, and the work of the imagination during the war
Technology and Science
The Butlerian Jihad: Gatekeepers of Digital Consumption
Machines themselves aren’t the problem—hierarchies are. Therefore, our pitchforks and sledgehammers should be used to dismantle hierarchies and not destroy machines
Music and Sound
How to present — and memorialize — a massacre through music
It’s a tough ask to write music describing one single, traumatic event. Dmitri Shostakovich managed to do so in one fell swoop
Society and Politics
This is a war of extermination and genocide
The political regime in Russia: resentment, expansion, and militarism as foundations of ideology
Art
Nowhere Romantic Automatism
Temporal Eternal Boris Groys speaks on the relationship between “copy” and “original”, digital immortality, the role of art during the war, the possibilities of reactualization of conceptualism today
Cinema and Video
Andrey Shental. To Perform amidst the Ruins of the Empire
Review of Keti Chukhrov’s video play “Undead” on the split between spirit and matter in the life of the inhabitants of the former USSR’s periphery
Philosophy and Humanities
About asking questions
List of possible questions by regimes of philosophical discourse according Deleuzo-Guattarian meta-philosophy
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Speechlessness: Conversation with Pavel Arsenev about russian anti-war poetry
addressing the lack of words with which the political opposition can position itself in the framework of this cultural and political catastrophe
Art
Imperiya Refusenik
An essay on the 1st Korkut Biennial of New Music and decolonial aesthesis (Almaty, Kazakhstan) through the experience of relocation from Russia to Central Asia
и-флакс
At the end of conformism, on the edge of a hole
Psychoanalytical notes from Russia during Ukraine war by Gleb Napreenko
Cinema and Video
Lethe Runs over the Screen. Sid Iandovka and Anya Tsyrlina at Rialto6, Lisbon
By Toni Hildebrandt and Katharina Hölzl
Art
Under the sign of emptiness
On January 21, a new cycle of events will start in the Vershy space (Minsk), allowing to set up communication between art and the viewer, artist and collector
Society and Politics
How does the Russian military-industrial complex circumvent sanctions? A detailed breakdown of the UAV and X-101 into Western components and supply chains
Analysis of recently published reports on imported components and dual-use goods used by the Russian Federation in the production of unmanned aerial vehicles and in the assembly of cruise missiles
