This is being cross-posted (in modified form) from UKR-TAZ, where it is part of a series examining the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The invasion of Ukraine continues to horrify, with casualties mounting and humanitarian corridors failing to materialize. But one of its more interesting dimensions, from the perspective of media and cultural theory, is the […]
Posts Tagged ‘Putin’
Info war & peace, theories turning to ashes
Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged Bellingcat, cyber warfare, cyberwar, disinformation, information warfare, infowar, media warfare, Putin, Russia, Svitlana Matviyenko, Ukraine, Zelenskiy, Zelensky, Zelenskyy on March 11, 2022 | Leave a Comment »
Invasion of Ukraine
Posted in Politics, tagged fascism, global politics, hyper-events, peace, Putin, Putinism, Russia, Ukraine, war on February 26, 2022 | Leave a Comment »
Readers of this blog may know that I have longstanding research as well as personal/family connections in Ukraine and that I have sometimes run a parallel blog on issues related to that country. (Called “UKR-TAZ: A Ukrainian Temporary Autonomous Zone,” the blog is found here.) I recently began posting to that blog more regularly with […]
The event of Chɵrnobyl (resonance renewed)
Posted in Anthropocene, tagged 1986 Chernobyl accident, Chernobyl, Chornobyl, Chɵrnobyl, Cold War, nuclear power, Putin, Russia, Ukraine, USSR on February 25, 2022 | Leave a Comment »
My recent 2022 Mohyla Lecture at the University of Saskatchewan, “The Chɵrnobyl Event: Ecology, Media, and the Anthropocene,” is now available to be watched online. (That “ɵ” in “Chɵrnobyl” is intentional; I discuss it in the talk.) In addition to updating some of my work on the Chɵrnobyl “hyper-event” and its multiple impacts, the talk […]