Belgrade Student Protests: Liberated Cultural Spaces as Epicentres of Systemic Change

By Petra Parčetić, April 17, 2025

When I talk to my international friends and colleagues about the current protests in Serbia, they (completely legitimately) ask me about the structure and the goals of the protests. Among a couple of other clear demands established from the blockades’ start, students also demand that the Student Cultural Centre (SKC) in Belgrade to be reinstated [...]

Gen Z on Turkish Streets: “They Thought We Were Slaves to a Disgraced Future”

By Dersu Doğan, March 29, 2025

Türkiye is going through an intense period of inter-generational political communication. Until now, there were discussions inside certain ideological groups that faced generation gaps. Although this is still one of the discussions of this wave of protests, we witness the coming together of large groups that we would otherwise be surprised to be seen together. [...]

Unfolding Affects in the Serbian Protests

By Petra Parčetić, March 19, 2025

I wanted to find a perfect three-word English phrasing for what we are witnessing, but the truth is that each option would fall short of the reality of the last four months. As philosopher Boris Buden stated “Europe is not able to translate the events taking place is Serbia in the language of its decadent [...]

JOIN THE 24-HOUR LIVE STREAM OF UKRAINATV, FEBRUARY 24, 2025

By Geert Lovink, February 23, 2025

LET|S REMEMBER THE THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF THE RUSSIAN FULL-SCALE INVASION OF UKRAINE IN HYBRID TOGETHERNESS JOIN THE 24-HOUR LIVE STREAM OF UKRAINATV, LIVE FROM KRAKOW AND ITS STREAM ART NETWORK PARTNERS START: FEBRUARY 23, 2025 23.00 CET – FEBRUARY 24, 2025, 23.00 CET 24.F3B.25 3RD ANNIV3RSARY OF FULL-SCAL3 WAR IN UKRAIN3 Organized by the Stream [...]

The Origins of UKRAiNATV: Interview with Roman Dziadkiewicz

By Geert Lovink, January 9, 2025

There are few email interviews I conducted that have been worth waiting for as much as this one. Here is my dialogue with the Polish artist, teacher, organizer and founder of UKRAiNATV, Roman Dziadkiewicz. Soon after we discovered this stream art channel on YouTube in the spring of 2022, I contacted Rom. We met soon [...]

GRWM – in an Attempt to Deoligarchise Georgia

By Salome Berdzenishvili, December 4, 2024

28th October, 2024 2 days after Georgian parliamentary elections How to steal the elections: Georgian edition My naivety did not let me fully believe the game would be so rigged. The data consists of 2,749,674 eligible voters and, somehow, 3,508,294 ballots are claimed by the Election Administration of Georgia to have been cast. From [...]

An In-Humanist Analysis of Contemporary Palestine

By Donatella Della Ratta, October 9, 2024

“To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric,” Theodor Adorno famously declared in a widely cited passage from his Cultural Criticism and Society 1955 essay. This powerful statement by the prominent philosopher, who had to flee Nazi Germany, encapsulates the deep ethical paradox of representing atrocities, even through art. Artistic depictions of pain, as he writes, [...]

In Defense of Algorithmic Bias: The Palestinian Struggle and the Deception of “Neutral” Tech

By August Kaasa Sundgaard, September 30, 2024

I found myself staring at a computer screen, my face blurred and tracked by a green rectangle that followed me everywhere I moved. Behind the screen, a pre-recorded video showed similar rectangles over other people’s faces, next to the bold caption: “SHOCKING FOOTAGE OF A 25-YEAR-OLD BEING KIDNAPPED FROM A MUSIC FESTIVAL IN ISRAEL.” This [...]

Gray Zone of Images

By Lesia Kulchynska, August 28, 2024

“There are rarely good reasons for showing us the images of mutilated victims” Harun Farocki[1] “Those of you who, despite the flood of death images, choose not to bear witness but instead act as mere spectators, beware that you are passing through our bodies, walking over our bodies, and standing on our bodies,”[2] wrote Lebanese [...]

Echoes of War: A Personal Narrative of Conflict and Community Support

By Kseniya Mirharodskaya, July 12, 2024

How does it feel to live in a country while a literal War is going on? I have been asking myself that question since the first day of the full-scale invasion in Ukraine. I was asking that question for the first time when back in 2014 my distant relatives from Donetsk came to stay with [...]