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Cinema and Video
The Transgression of Dictatorship in Lucio Rojas’s Trauma
Trauma does not offer a theory of dictatorship’s transgression. It performs one
Self-Organization
Vertical predation: Political economy dimension of municipal reform in Russia
Text is about internal processes inside Russian society, which are sources of discontentt — extant and potential, and basis for future revolution
Art
The Coexistence of Physical and Digital in Art Presentation (The Case of Thomas Ruff)
The author examines how digitalization blurs the distinction between physical and virtual art, using Thomas Ruff’s jpeg series as a case study
Cinema and Video
The Ontology of the Unreal: Faux-Snuff as a Window onto the Real
This image is not a philosophical argument but an aesthetic experience, a felt encounter with the inhuman
Poetry
Elena Stashkova: An Incredible Adventure in Search of a Symbol to Save the World (ENG) / Елена Сташкова: Невероятные приключения в поисках символа для спасения мира (RUS)
Play / Пьеса
Art
Alla prima meditations on Aziza Kadyri’s "Play Nice" (London, January 2026)
Some thoughts on Aziza Kadyri’s Somerset House exhibition, pondering also Worldbuilding and Quantum Histories.
Philosophy and Humanities
Why Russian?
stepp_over1.5K🔥
An attempt to unmask and dismantle violent language policies: the case of Russian
Art
Selected Sentences on Landscape
Gleb Simonov731
From a series of fragmented writing on the onthology of land
Philosophy and Humanities
On Women’s Non-/Ordination in the Orthodox Church
Igor Manannikov1.7K🔥
Women in the Orthodox Priesthood: Untangling the Controversy
The Israeli–Palestinian Conflict
Leon Ospald. Thoughts on Gaza
Leon Ospald3.2K🔥
Personal reflection on Germany’s historical responsibility and its response to the current war
Society and Politics
Fanon, Foucault, and the Moral Bankruptcy of Western Intellectuals in the Face of the Khomeini Regime
artur.sumarokov2.3K🔥
The ghosts of Fanon and Foucault hover over contemporary debates about populism, Islamism, and decolonization.
Technology and Science
Russian bureaucratic apparatus as a stalker
A routine request from the Russian state reminded me that even after leaving, the bureaucratic apparatus still knows my name and can make fear resurface in ways that feel irrational but very real
Society and Politics
Statement by Russian Human Rights Defenders and Civic Activists on the Situation in Iran
Dmitrii Zair-Bek1.6K🔥
Russian human rights defenders and civic activists invite you to join their statement on the situation in Iran
Society and Politics
Lost in the Middle: Whatever Happened to Class?
How are our lives bound together through systems of labor, value, and dispossession?
партия мёртвых
on the queerness of the dead (necromeditation)
Maxim Evstropov1.8K🔥
text of a necromeditation delivered at ‘the queer takeover’ soli party in berlin on december 6, 2025
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
Сноска
Коллекция учебных пособий, методичек и справочников, которые делают недоступное знание доступным
Atlas
The project mapping out complex systems of power, translocal entanglements, and tacit networks of solidarity
Tashkent-Tbilisi
A research archive of the history and contemporary culture of Central Eurasia
