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Fugitive radioactivity

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on November 12, 2017 | 18 Comments »

The Washington Post reports that “Ruthenium-106, named after Russia” has been wafting all across Europe. Two quick observations here.

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The groundlessness of revolution

Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged , , , , , on December 12, 2013 | 3 Comments »

Every violent suppression of dissent is violence against the humanity that is being born. The world to come is at stake in these encounters. That’s what I tweeted last night while watching what looked like the squashing of a revolution, when riot police appeared by the thousands and began moving in on the territory held […]

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The human cost of neoliberalism

Posted in Politics, tagged , on December 17, 2012 | 1 Comment »

A new study in The Lancet has determined that mass privatization in former Communist Eastern Europe — what was once called “shock therapy,” but is more usefully considered a form of “shock neoliberalization” — resulted in an excess of about a million deaths in that part of the world. A few quotes from the Oxford […]

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Post-Soviet riot grrls

Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged , , , , , on August 20, 2012 | 6 Comments »

While this doesn’t have much to do with the usual themes of this blog, it is an interesting case study of media culture and political protest (and one that my Ukrainian studies background qualifies me to comment on). It’s the case of Pussy Riot supporter Inna Shevchenko, an activist with the Ukrainian feminist protest group […]

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authoritarian body politics

Posted in Cinema, Politics, tagged , , , , on February 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »

(This post has been sitting in my Drafts folder for several days, but since it mentions The White Ribbon, which I just named 2009’s best film, I thought I might as well share it.) I just got around to reading Timothy Snyder’s brilliantly lucid article Holocaust: The ignored reality, fittingly after recently seeing Michael Haneke’s […]

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