Philosophy and Humanities
In-depth reflections on fundamental problems
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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
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?
Society and Politics
Slavoj Žižek on the problem of inactivity
Why can’t we transform all the knowledge about the ongoing crisis into a real action?
Philosophy and Humanities
A Fantasy on the Gaechka, the Divination Tool of Post-Soviet New Age Sorcery
The text explores the political and economic realities of the imaginary universe where the use of the gaechka (nut bolt fastener), a popular magical tool in Russia, becomes widespread
Philosophy and Humanities
Hegel’s Enlightenment and the Dialectics of the Vulva
On superstition, Enlightenment, infection and feminism by Oxana Timofeeva
Posle.Media
Agon Hamza. The aggressor always needs peace, the oppressed always need liberation
An interview with Marxist political philosopher and former advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo about parallels between the war in Ukraine and conflicts in the former Yugoslavia
Society and Politics
A Short Note on Governmentality and New Media, Based on the Russian Case Study
A short note on Foucault’s concept in the realities of new forms of media
Posle.Media
Ilya Budraitskis. The Birth and Death of the “Russian World”: a History of the Concept
Political theorist Ilya Budraitskis analyzes the genealogy of the key elements of Putin’s official ideology, which served to justify the military invasion in Ukraine
Philosophy and Humanities
The Role of the Past in “Interface”: Nostalgia in the Discourse of Cultural Change
An examination of the phenomenon of nostalgia on the example of the Internet cartoon “Interface”
Music and Sound
Future Belongs to Outsiders
Two manifestos of outsider art and its significance for the arts and economics of future
Arts of the Working Class
Elena Vogman and Joshua Simon. The World is Round and People Meet in the Corners
A constellation of observations of the relationships between avant-garde and history, liberating energy of artistic expression and Lenin’s idea on decolonizing the Russian Empire
CHANGES
Staging Gaia. Theatre, Climate and a Shift in Awareness
Bruno Latour and Frédérique Aït-Touati in conversation with Thomas Oberender. On their performance “Moving Earth”, Brecht’s “Life of Galileo”, Gaia as a character, immersion and new theater
PlusX
Friend Zone. On Archipelagic Writing and Slippery Institutions
On writing-with friends by Donna Schons, Jan Kunkel and Sebastjan Brank
Philosophy and Humanities
Keti Chukhrov. Epistemological Gaps between the Former Soviet East and the “Democratic” West
What impact had the political economy of socialist de-privatisation on the emergence of the new epistemes and ontologies of the Soviet?
Philosophy and Humanities
Building a Discourse of the Medial without Differentiating the Spheres of the Technological, the Natural, and the Human
Anastasia Zhilina explores possibilities of constructing a discourse of the medial that involves no essential distinction between the spheres of the technical, the natural, and the human