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Society and Politics

Keti Chukhrov. Aberrations in Anti-Capitalist Critique: Desiring Alienation

syg.ma team1.9K🔥
A research on divergences within emancipatory theories and the anti-capitalist philosophical narratives of continental thought
Keti Chukhrov. Aberrations in Anti-Capitalist Critique: Desiring Alienation
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
de_colonialanguage: Languages Speaks by Us, We See It and Can Make It Visible
Philosophy and Humanities

On Memory Landscapes

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?
On Memory Landscapes
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 ≫
Death hype: when mourning became newsworthy
Tashkent-Tbilisi

Tashkent(-Tbilisi). Grieving, drifting, healing

A few lines on how Tashkent’s unfamiliar streets helped me to mourn the loss of my lover
Tashkent(-Tbilisi). Grieving, drifting, healing
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?
Lenin abstract machine, and the Bolshevik collective assemblage
Society and Politics

Not a Single Story* or Why Decoloniality Matters and How We Can Make It Visible

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
Not a Single Story* or Why Decoloniality Matters and How We Can Make It Visible
Society and Politics

The Otherness. They are always speaking. Who listens?

Denis Esakov1.2K🔥
colonial ways of dehumanization and the helplessness of psychoanalysis
The Otherness. They are always speaking. Who listens?
Balkans Left Shelf

Emma Goldman. Tragedija ženske emancipacije.

Scan of a fanzine with a small feminist article by anarchist Emma Goldman.
Emma Goldman.  Tragedija ženske emancipacije.
Cinema and Video

Encapsulating internal agony: Trauma in modern experimental horror movies

Valentine G.1.6K🔥
Defining a subgenre in modern horror movies that explores traumatic experiences and provokes catharsis of the audience — how do they work structurally and why do we enjoy A24 so much?
Encapsulating internal agony: Trauma in modern experimental horror movies
Atlas

Max Sher. Internal Colonization

Part of an ongoing research project that examines the internal colonization that took place in Europe
Max Sher. Internal Colonization
Music and Sound

Women who changed the World with Sound: a brief look at experimental composers of the 20th century

Women pioneers of huge changes in 20th-century recording and visionaries of new technologies.
Women who changed the World with Sound: a brief look at experimental composers of the 20th century
Society and Politics

Irina Zherebkina. What Kind of Victory Do We Need?

syg.ma team2.4K🔥
Towards a future that transcends ethnonationalism and champions principles of hospitality and inclusion
Irina Zherebkina. What Kind of Victory Do We Need?
Music and Sound

Books about Sound: a brief review of 15 books from iconic authors in the field of sound studies

Landmark books that expand the knowledge of Sound, Noise, Deep Listening, and current issues in Sound Studies
Books about Sound: a brief review of 15 books from iconic authors in the field of sound studies
Music and Sound

Silent Nature in a Boisterous Culture

Die Angewandte’s Transformation School students explore how industrialized sounds and commodification of nature kill the resonance experiences
Silent Nature in a Boisterous Culture
Music and Sound

Movies about sound: a brief review of 10 outstanding films

Oksana Rudko1.1K🔥
Iconic Movies of different years, where the main roles were given to Sound.
Movies about sound: a brief review of 10 outstanding films
Art

The Sea Murmurs by Voices Rising under the Decaying Blanket

On traps of generalization on the case of the Berlin exhibition with decolonial intension
The Sea Murmurs by Voices Rising under the Decaying Blanket