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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
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
Olga Bubich409
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
mathildema392
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?
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
Society and Politics
The Otherness. They are always speaking. Who listens?
Denis Esakov1.2K🔥
colonial ways of dehumanization and the helplessness of psychoanalysis
Balkans Left Shelf
Emma Goldman. Tragedija ženske emancipacije.
Nikita Demin415
Scan of a fanzine with a small feminist article by anarchist Emma Goldman.
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?
Atlas
Max Sher. Internal Colonization
syg.ma team2K🔥
Part of an ongoing research project that examines the internal colonization that took place in Europe
Music and Sound
Women who changed the World with Sound: a brief look at experimental composers of the 20th century
Oksana Rudko768
Women pioneers of huge changes in 20th-century recording and visionaries of new technologies.
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
Music and Sound
Books about Sound: a brief review of 15 books from iconic authors in the field of sound studies
Oksana Rudko975
Landmark books that expand the knowledge of Sound, Noise, Deep Listening, and current issues in 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
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.
Art
The Sea Murmurs by Voices Rising under the Decaying Blanket
Denis Esakov744
On traps of generalization on the case of the Berlin exhibition with decolonial intension
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