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Slavoj Žižek on the problem of inactivity

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Why can’t we transform all the knowledge about the ongoing crisis into a real action?
Slavoj Žižek on the problem of inactivity
Philosophy and Humanities

Gap between Image and Reality. P. l.

Lena Sholokhova
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”
Gap between Image and Reality. P. l.
Society and Politics

The Mission of Anarchism in the Modern World

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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”
The Mission of Anarchism in the Modern World
Art

Learning to Hear Memories that Talk in Whispers

Olga Bubich
Dedicated to my grandparents: Olga and Vasily Bubich, Maria and Stanislaw Kozel, Illiya Golikov
Learning to Hear Memories 
that Talk in Whispers
Транслокальные диалоги / Translocal Dialogues

A conversation that can happen at any moment (with you as well)

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Conversation between Ruthia Jenrbekova and Galina Rymbu about nomadism, broken ties, and the work of the imagination during the war
A conversation that can happen at any moment (with you as well)
Technology and Science

The Butlerian Jihad: Gatekeepers of Digital Consumption

Boris Bezdar
Machines themselves aren’t the problem—hierarchies are. Therefore, our pitchforks and sledgehammers should be used to dismantle hierarchies and not destroy machines
The Butlerian Jihad: Gatekeepers of Digital Consumption
Music and Sound

How to present — and memorialize — a massacre through music

Mark Shulman
It’s a tough ask to write music describing one single, traumatic event. Dmitri Shostakovich managed to do so in one fell swoop
How to present — and memorialize — a massacre through music
Society and Politics

This is a war of extermination and genocide

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The political regime in Russia: resentment, expansion, and militarism as foundations of ideology
This is a war of extermination and genocide
Art

Nowhere Romantic Automatism

Arseny Zhilyaev1
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
Nowhere Romantic Automatism
Cinema and Video

Andrey Shental. To Perform amidst the Ruins of the Empire

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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
Andrey Shental. To Perform amidst the Ruins of the Empire
Philosophy and Humanities

About asking questions

Evgeny Konoplev
List of possible questions by regimes of philosophical discourse according Deleuzo-Guattarian meta-philosophy
About asking questions
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Speechlessness: Conversation with Pavel Arsenev about russian anti-war poetry

Павел Арсеньев
addressing the lack of words with which the political opposition can position itself in the framework of this cultural and political catastrophe
Speechlessness: Conversation with Pavel Arsenev about russian anti-war poetry
Art

Imperiya Refusenik

Nikolay Smirnov
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
Imperiya Refusenik
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At the end of conformism, on the edge of a hole

Глеб Напреенко🔥
Psychoanalytical notes from Russia during Ukraine war by Gleb Napreenko
At the end of conformism, on the edge of a hole
Cinema and Video

Lethe Runs over the Screen. Sid Iandovka and Anya Tsyrlina at Rialto6, Lisbon

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By Toni Hildebrandt and Katharina Hölzl
Lethe Runs over the Screen. Sid Iandovka and Anya Tsyrlina at Rialto6, Lisbon
Art

Under the sign of emptiness

Karen Karnak
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
Under the sign of emptiness
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

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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
How does the Russian military-industrial complex circumvent sanctions? A detailed breakdown of the UAV and X-101 into Western components and supply chains