“COUNTRY UNDER RECONSTRUCTION. SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.” (from Ukrainian anarchist group Blackmaidan) “It is as if, for a moment, the ‘projection’ of the outside world has stopped working; as if we have been confronted momentarily with the formless grey emptiness of the screen itself…” (Slavoj Zizek, describing the scene outside a traveling couple’s window in Robert […]
Posts Tagged ‘post-Soviet’
‘Country under reconstruction’: Ukraine & the society of the provocation
Posted in Politics, tagged activism, post-Soviet, provocation, revolution, Russia, Ukraine on February 7, 2014 | 14 Comments »
The groundlessness of revolution
Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged Eastern Europe, Europe, Politics, post-Soviet, revolutions, Ukraine 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 […]