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Philosophy and Humanities

Gap between Image and Reality. P. l.

Lena Sholokhova
A text describing artistic practice that combines performative and ideomotor actions aimed at comprehending and revealing the problems of the concept “Gap between Image and Reality”
Gap between Image and Reality. P. l.
Art

Anna Fedotova, photographer and co-author of the performance

turquoise ether magazine
Review
Anna Fedotova, photographer and co-author of the performance
Society and Politics

The Mission of Anarchism in the Modern World

syg.ma teamcomments1
On April 19, 2023, Dmitry Petrov, anti-fascist and anarchist, was killed in a battle near Bakhmut. In memory of Dmitry, we are publishing his text “The Mission of Anarchism in the Modern World”
The Mission of Anarchism in the Modern World
Art

Learning to Hear Memories that Talk in Whispers

Olga Bubich
Dedicated to my grandparents: Olga and Vasily Bubich, Maria and Stanislaw Kozel, Illiya Golikov
Learning to Hear Memories 
that Talk in Whispers
Транслокальные диалоги / Translocal Dialogues

A conversation that can happen at any moment (with you as well)

syg.ma team
Conversation between Ruthia Jenrbekova and Galina Rymbu about nomadism, broken ties, and the work of the imagination during the war
A conversation that can happen at any moment (with you as well)
Technology and Science

The Butlerian Jihad: Gatekeepers of Digital Consumption

Boris Bezdar
Machines themselves aren’t the problem—hierarchies are. Therefore, our pitchforks and sledgehammers should be used to dismantle hierarchies and not destroy machines
The Butlerian Jihad: Gatekeepers of Digital Consumption
Music and Sound

How to present — and memorialize — a massacre through music

Mark Shulman
It’s a tough ask to write music describing one single, traumatic event. Dmitri Shostakovich managed to do so in one fell swoop
How to present — and memorialize — a massacre through music
Art

Matt Stasyuk: Surfaces, polyoptics, post-anthropic humanism

turquoise ether magazine
Review
Matt Stasyuk: Surfaces, polyoptics, post-anthropic humanism
Architecture and Cities

Spens: The Iconic Multi-Purpose Venue in Novi Sad, Serbia

Iskra.lol
Spens is a well-known massive complex in Novi Sad, Serbia. It has been a popular destination for various events, sports competitions, concerts, and exhibitions ever since it was completed in 1981
Spens: 
The Iconic Multi-Purpose Venue in Novi Sad, Serbia
Society and Politics

This is a war of extermination and genocide

media resistance group
The political regime in Russia: resentment, expansion, and militarism as foundations of ideology
This is a war of extermination and genocide
Poetry

they sit on the slopes

kyo
a short poem about isolation, connection, and the natural world
they sit on the slopes
Art

Nowhere Romantic Automatism

Arseny Zhilyaevcomments1
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
Nowhere Romantic Automatism
Art

On the adge of another truth

Alexei Eroshenko
post-truth /ˌpəʊs (t)ˈtruːθ/ adjective 1. relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.“can...
On the adge of another truth
Philosophy and Humanities

About asking questions

Evgeny Konoplev
List of possible questions by regimes of philosophical discourse according Deleuzo-Guattarian meta-philosophy
About asking questions
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Speechlessness: Conversation with Pavel Arsenev about russian anti-war poetry

Павел Арсеньев
addressing the lack of words with which the political opposition can position itself in the framework of this cultural and political catastrophe
Speechlessness: Conversation with Pavel Arsenev about russian anti-war poetry
Art

Imperiya Refusenik

Nikolay Smirnov
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
Imperiya Refusenik