Irregular Ukraine Linklist

By Geert Lovink, April 2, 2022

Alexander Isavnin: The Russian Sovereign Internet and Number Resources https://labs.ripe.net/author/alexander-isavnin/the-russian-sovereign-internet-and-number-resources/ Witnessing U: Testimonials from the front line https://toneelmakerij.nl/en/voorstellingen/witnessing-u/ The Last Days Of Mariupol’s Internet https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2022/03/31/the-last-days-of-mariupols-internet/ Drones for Ukraine https://eyesonukraine.eu/ Meet the Secretive US Company Building an ‘Unbreakable’ Internet Inside Russia https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3n5e9/russian-internet-lantern UKRA))i((NATV to platforma informacyjna, telewizja internetowa https://zbieram.pl/ukrainatv Elena Kostyuchenko’s reports on the war in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Notes of Lev Manovich, February 24/March 6, 2022

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 [...]

On Small and Big History, Reflections from a Sleepless Night by Yuliya Yurchuk

By Geert Lovink, March 1, 2022

The third sleepless night. I badly want to check on my father, but what if he is peacefully sleeping and I will just rob him of this ultimate joy – sleep? I am taking notes instead. Yesterday night, last time I spoke with my father, it was totally dark on my telephone’s screen. He could [...]

Dmytro Chepurnyi: Letter from Ukraine (February 22, 2022)

By Geert Lovink, February 25, 2022

(This is an email, posted on the nettime list by Janos Sugar and published here with the consent of the author Dmytro Chepurnyi. Keep in mind: this was written before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. On Twitter Ileana Nachescu @Ileana_voix remarked:  “In hours and hours of coverage by the BBC, and hours [...]

Open Call – Amplifying Voices from Inside the Ukrainian War Zone

By Anonymous, February 24, 2022

The Institute of Network Cultures is in solidarity with those affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. We are open to any form of reflections, tactical tools, notes, witness material, and reports from or connected to the war zone. INC wants to amplify the artistic, activist, academic, and critical voices of all those influenced by [...]