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Syg.ma is a community-run multilingual media platform and translocal archive.
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Society and Politics
Not a Single Story* or Why Decoloniality Matters and How We Can Make It Visible
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why the largest square in Berlin is honoring russian imperialism in one of its most active periods and how we can rename it by art actions
Self-Organization
of BUILDING RELATIONS and FINDING a VOICES
imaginary monopolies on language and their pidginization, poeticization, politicization and precipitation
Music and Sound
radio.syg.ma gets lost or death and the rave
bad person going to a good music festival
FAQ. New Editor
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Image galleries, line-by-line footnotes, standout links, and a convenient table of contents—read how to use the new editor
Society and Politics
MEMORYLETTER
The latest history of Russia described in two photos and a few court cases
Art
Cracks on the Façade
if binarity is a power regime, then non-binary spaces are a schism and way out into other power relations
Art
Aptitude of exilic experience: Translatability of migrating images by Lea Lublin (Blanco Sobre Blanco, 1969)
How can a representation of an artwork enact the exilic experience? What does it mean for an image to be ‘translated’ into different cultural and political contexts?
Poetry
ʒиN 9: Room for Translations
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exercises of moving beyond monolinguistic habits to an open encounter with Polyvoiceness
Art
Hello, dear country! – the Marukis in the USSR and Russia
The history of popularity and oblivion of Japanese artists
Atlas
Multiperspective: the New Pact on Migration and Asylum of the EU
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Migration Researcher, Yan Matusevich, discusses the influence of the pact on contemporary human rights and migration policy trends
Notes
They That Were There / Те, кто были там
Стихотворение в прозе о призраках, которых жаждешь увидеть
Self-Organization
de_colonialanguage: Languages Speaks by Us, We See It and Can Make It Visible
transfrontier art collective, operating by critical language studies, seeks decoloniality and radical solidarity
Philosophy and Humanities
On Memory Landscapes
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In which way does memory work? Who (or what) possesses the ability of forming and storing recollections? If nature can remember, what is it that we, humans, can learn from and about it?
Psychology and Psychoanalysis
Death hype: when mourning became newsworthy
Translation of my reflection text on how people have learnt to skim the cream off death and turn mourning into a newsbreak.
In the wake of the attack in the Crocus City Hall 22-23.03.2024 ≫
Tashkent-Tbilisi
Tashkent(-Tbilisi). Grieving, drifting, healing
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A few lines on how Tashkent’s unfamiliar streets helped me to mourn the loss of my lover
Philosophy and Humanities
Lenin abstract machine, and the Bolshevik collective assemblage
How we can to understand Lenin’s figure in deleuzian materialist and anti-humanist prospect?
Special projects
Collections of texts, multimedia materials and special events prepared by the editorial board together with the syg.ma community or our institutional partners
и-флакс
Обновляемая подборка переводов на русский текстов журнала о современном искусстве, культуре и теории e-flux
Tashkent-Tbilisi
A research archive of the history and contemporary culture of Central Eurasia
Atlas
The project mapping out complex systems of power, translocal entanglements, and tacit networks of solidarity
