net critique blog by Geert Lovink
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
By Svitlana Matviyenko, March 10, 2022
March 6-10, 2022 After a quiet day on Saturday, March 5th, there were six air raid sirens on March 6th, and I noticed that, unless the rockets hit the city, too many sirens per day can make you ignore them. If it’s two or three, your body is turned on and your mind responds by [...]
By Karyna Lazaruk, March 9, 2022
March 4th, day 9 of this shit. I’m on edge. I restlessly check my phone. Fuck, so agitating.. I go to the bathroom with my phone, I go to sleep with my phone, I wake up at night and check my phone. When I hear an air raid siren, the first thing I think about [...]
By Geert Lovink, March 6, 2022
February 24, 2022 In summer 2019 I spent a month in Kyiv. It is a most amazing city – a bit of Rome, Paris Rio de Janeiro, and Bangkok together – but with its own unique vitality, creativity, and energy (some of the most talented artists and other cultural figures of “Russian avant-garde” of 1910s-1920 [...]
By Svitlana Matviyenko, March 5, 2022
February 27, 2o22 – March 5, 2022 I thought it’s just me, but Asia says she is losing sense of what day it is. I feel the same, not all the time, but some moments, definitely. Writing stops, only fragmented notes are made, but I will now bring them together by reminding myself what I [...]
By Karyna Lazaruk, March 4, 2022
“I never thought I’ll be a refugee,” a colleague wrote in a Facebook group chat. Me neither. While the Ukrainian army and citizens bravely defend my homeland, I write this diary from Berlin. I check if my friends in Kyiv are fine by the green circle in the Facebook chat or through the “last seen” [...]
