Bunk Debunkers: Warfakes as Russian War Participatory Propaganda

By Karyna Lazaruk, April 5, 2022

Project by: Karyna Lazaruk and Marc Tuters (project leaders), with Borka Balogh, Marta Ceccarelli, Emillie de Keulenaar, Kiara Khorram, Devin Mitter, Son Nguyen, Stijn Peeters, Emilie Schwantzer, Cemal Tahir and Alexander Teggin. Warfakes is a popular Russian language telegram channel that, along with its English language website Waronfakes.com, emerged in the first few days of [...]

Open Letter of Dmitry Pilikin, Russian Artist, Curator, Art Historian

By Geert Lovink, April 4, 2022

Open Letter Dear friends and colleagues, I want to write important thoughts for me. It is very difficult for me to talk about culture and art at a time when war is going on. The official Russian authorities call what is happening in Ukraine “a special military operation by Russian servicemen to protect Ukraine from [...]

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 [...]

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 7

By Svitlana Matviyenko, March 29, 2022

March 21-29, 2022 On the 33rd day of the Russia-Ukraine war, I continued receiving media and speaking requests to address a so-called “crisis in Ukraine.” It is almost surprising, or maybe not at all, that Russian propaganda is so pervasive that it imposes a false caution on someone who’d think that despite the ongoing full-scale [...]

Response to Western Leftists from the Ukrainian Battlefield

By Svitlana Matviyenko, March 23, 2022

I am an Assistant Professor of critical media analysis at Simon Fraser University in Canada where I teach political economy of information. I am a co-author of Cyberwar and Revolution: Digital Subterfuge of Global Capitalism, which is a Marxist theory of cyber warfare and militarism. I am in Ukraine currently, in the midst of the [...]

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 6

By Svitlana Matviyenko, March 21, 2022

March 12 –20, 2022 The air raid siren is a complex event. At night, when the streets under the curfew regime are empty of cars and random night wanderers, all subtle sounds compose a balanced but vibrant sonic texture like a rustle or whisper. Suddenly – and it is always suddenly, no matter whether you [...]

It’s a Military Coup-Political Reflections from St. Petersburg

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 [...]

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 [...]