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The fossil-fuel shakedown of Ukraine

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , on March 9, 2025 | Leave a Comment »

I highly recommend Antonia Juhasz’s Rolling Stone cover story “Is Trump’s ‘Minerals Deal’ a Fossil Fuel Shakedown?” In a Facebook post, Juhasz notes that Ukrainian president Zelensky “is on his way to Saudi Arabia next week, being forced into a corner by the unholy alliance of Putin and Trump and to sign an ‘extortionist’ ‘neocolonial […]

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End of the Interregnum, or just the beginning of its end?

Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on March 6, 2025 | Leave a Comment »

It’s looking increasingly likely that the last 35 years or so will come to be seen as an Interregnum between two world orders: the Cold War order, which emerged from the ashes of World War Two, and whatever it is that is beginning to envelop us now. The question is whether what is enveloping us […]

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Russia, the climate crisis, & ecocide

Posted in Climate change, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 29, 2023 | Leave a Comment »

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 […]

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A year of full-scale war in Ukraine

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , 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 […]

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A look at Ukrainian experimental music

Posted in Music & soundscape, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , 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 […]

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“This is a fossil fuel war”

Posted in Climate change, tagged , , , , , 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 […]

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Ukraine, the “migrant crisis,” & the future

Posted in Cultural politics, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 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 […]

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Info war & peace, theories turning to ashes

Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , 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 […]

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Invasion of Ukraine

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , 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 […]

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The event of Chɵrnobyl (resonance renewed)

Posted in Anthropocene, tagged , , , , , , , , , 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 […]

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Through an Anthropo(s)cenic Glass, Darkly

Posted in Anthropocene, Cinema, Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 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 […]

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The “what does it have to do with me?” defense

Posted in Cultural politics, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 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 […]

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