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Syg.ma is a community-run multilingual media platform and translocal archive.
Since 2014, researchers, artists, collectives, and cultural institutions have been publishing their work here
Pinned posts
Arts of the Working Class
War Is Here, We Are Not
Notes on the phone-mediated presence by Valentin Golev and Lesia Prokopenko
Art
Nowhere Romantic Automatism
Temporal Eternal Boris Groys speaks on the relationship between “copy” and “original”, digital immortality, the role of art during the war, the possibilities of reactualization of conceptualism today
Cinema and Video
Andrey Shental. To Perform amidst the Ruins of the Empire
Review of Keti Chukhrov’s video play “Undead” on the split between spirit and matter in the life of the inhabitants of the former USSR’s periphery
Philosophy and Humanities
About asking questions
List of possible questions by regimes of philosophical discourse according Deleuzo-Guattarian meta-philosophy
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Speechlessness: Conversation with Pavel Arsenev about russian anti-war poetry
addressing the lack of words with which the political opposition can position itself in the framework of this cultural and political catastrophe
Art
Imperiya Refusenik
An essay on the 1st Korkut Biennial of New Music and decolonial aesthesis (Almaty, Kazakhstan) through the experience of relocation from Russia to Central Asia
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At the end of conformism, on the edge of a hole
Psychoanalytical notes from Russia during Ukraine war by Gleb Napreenko
Cinema and Video
Lethe Runs over the Screen. Sid Iandovka and Anya Tsyrlina at Rialto6, Lisbon
By Toni Hildebrandt and Katharina Hölzl
Art
Under the sign of emptiness
On January 21, a new cycle of events will start in the Vershy space (Minsk), allowing to set up communication between art and the viewer, artist and collector
Society and Politics
How does the Russian military-industrial complex circumvent sanctions? A detailed breakdown of the UAV and X-101 into Western components and supply chains
Analysis of recently published reports on imported components and dual-use goods used by the Russian Federation in the production of unmanned aerial vehicles and in the assembly of cruise missiles
Art
an office compendium of methods and tools
An attempt to describe and reflect on the methods and tools that we tried out with our trajectory as an office, by some referred to as a collective and by others as a group
radio.syg.ma
Σ3
Σ3 compilation released via our radio platform is a 16 track album by international artists aimed to gather funds for at-risk Ukrainians
Карта/Map
Why Patriotic Games do not Depend on Ideology
Maria Gavrilova on the of military-patriotic education in Russian schools
Карта/Map
How Russian Teenagers Get Engaged in Politics
Svetlana Erpyleva on how political maturity is forged in modern Russia
Art
Obscurity: conversation with Belarusian contemporary artist Ilya Padalko
About his method of artwork creation, philosophy and his attitude to contemporary art
Society and Politics
THE GLOBAL CRIMINAL REVOLUTION AND HOW MUCH WILL PHYSIOLOGICAL IMMORTALITY COST (a cyberpunk essay)
Anonymization of elites and new normality, world favela and criminal vertical, UBI and state plan, AI and occultism, supercomputer on the Moon and immortality, posthuman and homo melius
Philosophy and Humanities
Linguistic Identity: Existential Crisis of Polylingual People
How to determine your essence when you live in several linguistic realities? How does it affects your perception and why is that so important to understand who you are?
