My recent E-Flux article, “Russia, Decolonization, and the Capitalism-Democracy Muddle,” raised the question of Russia’s potential “decolonization” — what it means (and doesn’t), and how the debate over it, and over decolonization in general, needs some political updating. The article seems no less relevant after the abortive mutiny led last week by the Wagner Group’s […]
Posts Tagged ‘Ukraine’
Russia, the climate crisis, & ecocide
Posted in Climate change, Politics, tagged Anthropocene, capitalocene, climate crisis, colonial-capitalocene, colonialism, coloniality, decolonialism, Decolonization, ecocide, environmental consequences of war, postcolonialism, Russia, Russo-Ukrainian war, Ukraine, war on June 29, 2023 | Leave a Comment »
A year of full-scale war in Ukraine
Posted in Politics, tagged climate wars, Putin, Russian invasion, Ukraine, war, war ecology on February 24, 2023 | 2 Comments »
My reflections on a year of full-scale war in Ukraine can be read here. Among them: Like Ukrainians in general, whose resistance to the Russian onslaught has been remarkable, President Volodymyr Zelensky has done wonders in so many ways. But one thing neither he nor his western supporters have succeeded at — as this New York Times analysis […]
A look at Ukrainian experimental music
Posted in Music & soundscape, tagged autobiography, EXperimental music, Kadaitcha, Radio, Russian invasion of Ukraine, Stalagmite Under a Naked Sky, The Moglass, Ukraine, Ukrainian music, Vapniaks, Vapniaky, Zavoloka on April 15, 2022 | 1 Comment »
I was interviewed last week by UC Santa Barbara music professor and KCSB DJ David Novak on his show Selectric Davyland. The hour-long interview offers a highly personal take on Ukrainian music since the 1980s; David called it a “Personal and Political History (and a Playlist) of Ukrainian Experimental Music.” It features an adventurous mix […]
“This is a fossil fuel war”
Posted in Climate change, tagged climate politics, energy transition, fossil fuel dependency, Russia, Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine on March 27, 2022 | 1 Comment »
The invasion of Ukraine has shifted media attention away from many other things, Covid and climate among them. But the climate implications of the war have not gone unnoticed. To start with the obvious: Russia is a petrostate. As Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air analyst Lauri Myllyvirta writes, More than a third […]
Ukraine, the “migrant crisis,” & the future
Posted in Cultural politics, Politics, tagged borders, critical zones, cultural politics, ecotopia, futurism, green politics, liberalism, migrant crisis, migration, Putinism, refugee crisis, refugees, Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine, xenophobia on March 14, 2022 | Leave a Comment »
Here are some thoughts on the humanitarian, historical, moral, and environmental implications of the crisis of refugees fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine. They were prompted by questions asked of me by a public radio interviewer. I’m still working on the answers (and the interview has not aired, as far as I can tell). Comments […]
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 »
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 […]
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 […]
Through an Anthropo(s)cenic Glass, Darkly
Posted in Anthropocene, Cinema, Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, tagged 1 Corinthians 13, Anthropocene, climate trauma, Congress of Culture, deep time, Earth's deep past, eco-trauma, geology, geophilosophy, Holocene, IPCC, Late Holocene, Lviv, Peter Brannen, Solaris, Tarkovsky, Through a Glass Darkly, Ukraine, Vermont Humanities Conference, Zizek, Конгрес культури on August 11, 2021 | 1 Comment »
My thinking about the Anthropocenic predicament continues to be informed, even haunted, by Andrei Tarkovsky’s films Solaris and Stalker, along with their literary predecessor novels by (Lviv-born) Stanisław Lem and the Strugatsky brothers, respectively. Two keynote talks I’ve been invited to give this October — one for Ukraine’s Congress of Culture, to take place in […]
The “what does it have to do with me?” defense
Posted in Cultural politics, Politics, tagged colonialism, coloniality, Decolonization, genocide, George Floyd protests, Mignolo, modernity, racism, slavery, Ukraine, United States, US history, white privilege, whiteness, xenophilia, xenophobia on June 11, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
A casual comment on a minor article in a provincial newspaper in a faraway country (Ukraine) got me going on a response to what is, essentially, the white world’s default position on all things racial. (Social media comments, as a rule, aren’t indicative of anything, but this one is so symptomatic it’s worth examining.) The […]
Earth Day dream, with St. Leonard of Westmount
Posted in Manifestos & auguries, tagged communal apartments, Earth Day, Irving Layton, Kiev, Kyiv, Leonard Cohen, Pope Francis, Radio Moscow, Radio Moskva, St. Leonard of Westmount, Ukraine, Vydubychi monastery on April 22, 2020 | 1 Comment »
I dreamt that Leonard Cohen appeared by my bedside. He smiled and reassured me that things will be alright: “They will all have been beautiful in the end.” I wanted to ask him something, but wasn’t sure what. Then he was gone. The radio (it was Radio Moskva, from back when I spent a fall […]
The Epistemically Challenged States of America
Posted in Cultural politics, Politics, tagged Algoricene, algorithmic transparency, cultural policy, digital culture, epistemology, fake news, global media literacy, global media studies, information war, media ecology, media hygiene, media literacy, media policy, media theory, political polarization, Russia, Ukraine, Ukrainianization on December 2, 2019 | 7 Comments »
Or, Why Ukraine- and Russia- literacy should now be mandatory studies for every voting American One could start with another question: Why are both the politics of climate change and politics in general so polarized these days? Political polarization, after all, remains the main complaint of Americans, and it has made it impossible to make […]
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