Weaponized OSINT: The New Kremlin-Sponsored Participatory Propaganda

By Marc Tuters and 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 [...]

Why The West Should Support Russian Opposition: Isolating Critical Russian Civil Society in Exile Will Only Strengthen Putin’s Game Inside The Country

By Roman Iutsis, July 15, 2022

Countries are people. In democracies, these people determine the politics of the countries. In autocracy they don’t, they exclusively work for the economy of their country. Vladimir Putin doesn’t care about people. He doesn’t care about Russians and Ukrainians, or any other people. He doesn’t care about the global food crisis that happens because the [...]

Keep Ukraine Connected: Interview with the Campaigners

By Geert Lovink, July 15, 2022

(interview conducted for the Tactical Media Room, INC Theory on Demand #44) Mariupol went offline the minute the last 5G transmitter was destroyed. As soon as I heard about the Keep Ukraine Connected initiative, I became curious about their activities. How do internet techies initiate a campaign to support Ukrainian internet service providers with hardware? [...]

The Privacy of War

By Kateryna Iakovlenko, July 11, 2022

Photo: Dmytro Shutaiev, (17 March 2021), with Roman Ratushny. For several months I have been monitoring social media feeds looking for views from the war-zone. Not coincidentally, many current soldiers are intellectuals, artists, photographers, music promoters, and cultural activists—people who would never take up arms under other circumstances today are lying in a trench, and [...]

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 11

By Svitlana Matviyenko, July 9, 2022

May 30 – June 20, 2022 Salt disappeared. At the end of May, the shelf at the Silpo supermarket, where it is usually sitting – local or imported – is empty. Tired of answering the same questions, sellers at the market put their hand-made signs upfront: there is no salt – cолі немає. Online, the [...]