Monthly Archives: March 2022

UKRA))i((NATV streaming on Twitch from Krakow

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, March 30, 2022

UKRA))i((NATV is an information platform, internet tv and centre for intercultural integration created by a group of Ukrainian, Polish and all-language people, organisations and institutions. They are embedded in the cultural and media environment of Krakow, and have equipment, a studio and a small dynamic team that has been working intensively since the beginning of [...]

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 7

By Svitlana Matviyenko, March 29, 2022

March 21-29, 2022 On the 33rd day of the Russia-Ukraine war, I continued receiving media and speaking requests to address a so-called “crisis in Ukraine.” It is almost surprising, or maybe not at all, that Russian propaganda is so pervasive that it imposes a false caution on someone who’d think that despite the ongoing full-scale [...]

Response to Western Leftists from the Ukrainian Battlefield

By Svitlana Matviyenko, March 23, 2022

I am an Assistant Professor of critical media analysis at Simon Fraser University in Canada where I teach political economy of information. I am a co-author of Cyberwar and Revolution: Digital Subterfuge of Global Capitalism, which is a Marxist theory of cyber warfare and militarism. I am in Ukraine currently, in the midst of the [...]

Adventurous Writing at the Domein voor Kunstkritiek Lab Days

By Laurence Scherz, March 22, 2022

This spring, Domein voor Kunstkritiek and De Nieuwe Garde are organizing an adventurous lab on digital art criticism and essays, in which they will dive into online publication forms together. A lab for Dutch and Flemish cultural journalists, essayists, and makers with a passion for experimentation who want to look (far) beyond the linear text. [...]

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 6

By Svitlana Matviyenko, March 21, 2022

March 12 –20, 2022 The air raid siren is a complex event. At night, when the streets under the curfew regime are empty of cars and random night wanderers, all subtle sounds compose a balanced but vibrant sonic texture like a rustle or whisper. Suddenly – and it is always suddenly, no matter whether you [...]

It’s a Military Coup-Political Reflections from St. Petersburg

By Anonymous, March 20, 2022

Everything that I write is unacceptable for Ukrainians now, our problems are not commensurate with the victims of bombings and blockades. But we in Russia must develop resistance tactics, as well as mentally and socially survive. The war was a shock for us, as it was for many. The blackmail and repression over the past [...]

The Ukraine War and the Costs of the Metaverse by PJ Gamez Cersosimo

By Geert Lovink, March 17, 2022

More than ever, our lives are spent, immersed, in a disruptive, confusingly feudal, liquid, and at the same time energetically unsustainable online world. Above all, the technological advances of the last decade invited humanity to a consensual, universally accepted displacement. Now, we are trying to understand the consequences of this digital displacement. In fact, it [...]

Collaborative Link Filtering: Contexts of the Invasion of Ukraine

By Geert Lovink, March 16, 2022

Send text messages from your phones directly to randomly selected Russians https://1920.in/  ISP Hardware Solidarity: Keep Ukraine Connected https://keepukraineconnected.org Drones for Ukraine (via Jo) https://eyesonukraine.eu/ Via INURA (thanks to Patrice): https://urbanpolitical.podigee.io/49-ukrainian_cities_at_war Contacts for Ukrainians (via Janos Sugar) https://www.contactsforukrainians.art/ Tools for communicating offline and in difficult circumstance (via Maja van der Velden) https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10356-tools-for-communicating-offline-and-in-difficult-circumstances Donation campaign for [...]

Ben Peters: Ukrainian Reflections from Tulsa, Oklahoma

By Geert Lovink, March 14, 2022

I have not been directly affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, although I am in touch with dozens of my colleagues, friends, and contacts in the region, where I have lived for about three years and have studied for about twenty. As such, my comments here will bear far less of the immediate unbearable [...]

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 5

By Svitlana Matviyenko, March 12, 2022

March 11, 2022 At 11pm, I go to bed with the intent to spend a couple of hours on writing. I am staring at the blank page for quite some time; the siren goes off and then, as if by following its call to tune in, I start writing. A reporter from the Canadian Press [...]