Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 12

By Svitlana Matviyenko, September 29, 2022

June 26 – August 30, 2022 I have been resisting to return to writing this dispatch for more than two months. Notes – yes, constantly. Writing – occasionally, but not so much. When the tenth dispatch was published in June, I suffered from a two-week-long depression, dark enough I confessed to our School’s Director that [...]

Sandro Mezzadra & Toni Negri: Join the Global Fight against the Regime of War

By Geert Lovink, August 9, 2022

(Authorized translation by INC. The Italian original, Lottare contro il regime di guerra a livello globale, was published August 7, 2022 on the Euronomade website: http://www.euronomade.info/?p=15117) As the Italian election campaign gets underway during the hottest August on record, it is not only climate change that is essentially ignored in the political debate. Silence also seems [...]

Endangered Profession

By Elmaz Asan, July 28, 2022

This is the transcript of the speech Elmaz Asan gave during the Tactical Media Room Meetup at Spui25 on the 30th of June, 2022. Read the report on the debates here. Good evening, dear participants and journalists of such an important event. I am honored to be among you. Until 2014, as a journalist, I [...]

Fighting Disinformation: We’re Solving The Wrong Problems

By Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak, July 26, 2022

Tackling disinformation and misinformation is a problem that is important, timely, hard… and, in no way new. Throughout history, different forms of propaganda, manipulation, and biased reporting have been present and deployed — consciously or not; maliciously or not — to steer political discourse and to goad public outrage. The issue has admittedly become more [...]

Weaponized OSINT: The New Kremlin-Sponsored Participatory Propaganda

By Karyna Lazaruk, July 22, 2022

Image credit: Karyna Lazaruk. ‘Warfakes’ (“Война с фейками”) is the name of a popular Russian Telegram channel at the centre of an entire network of related channels that emerged in the opening days of the current Russian invasion of Ukraine. Along with its English language website Waronfakes. com, these channels present themselves as a network [...]

Time Is Dead and Meaning Has No Meaning

By Sophia Kornienko, July 21, 2022

This party never stops, time is dead and meaning has no meaning. Existence is upside down and I reign supreme. My daughter loves reciting whole dialogues from Disney’s animated series Gravity Falls, but this particular quote, by the show’s demonic antagonist, has really stuck with me as a prophetic description of our post-postmodern time: “This [...]

Tactical Media Meetup #3: Debate on Internet Blockade of Propagandist Media

By Maria Plichta, July 20, 2022

In July 2022, INC published a new 44th edition of Theory on Demand, called Dispatches from Ukraine: Tactical Media Reflections and Responses, which includes the following report on the debates that happened on June 30th. Order a physical copy or download the whole publication free of charge here. At the beginning of 2022, fake news still [...]

Presenting UNE (The University of New Europe) & Its Mentor Programme

By Ellen Rutten, July 18, 2022

In July, INC has published a new 44th edition of Theory on Demand, called Dispatches from Ukraine: Tactical Media Reflections and Responses, which includes the following piece. Order a physical copy or download the whole publication free of charge here. In this text I introduce two initiatives by a collective of scholars and activists from across Europe in [...]

Interview with Svitlana Matviyenko on her Diary and Online Education

By Geert Lovink, July 18, 2022

“You may not be interested in cyberwar, but cyberwar is interested in you.” Interview with Svitlana Matviyenko by Geert Lovink It’s July 2022. Four months into her diary project Svitlana writes me: “The sirens are here again. Since 3 am, they say we can’t ignore sirens any more, since Russia changed the tactics and is [...]

Dispatches from Ukraine: Tactical Media Reflections and Responses

By Tommaso Campagna, July 15, 2022

Theory on Demand #44 Dispatches from Ukraine: Tactical Media Reflections and Responses edited by Maria van der Togt and 11111 &23%#719 This publication marks the first results of the Tactical Media Room Ukraine project, launched in February 2022 in Amsterdam after the shocking Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Tactical Media Room is a network [...]