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Earth Day thoughts for a mediascaped planet…

Posted in Media ecology, tagged , , , , , on April 22, 2019 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been posting about the Ukrainian presidential runoff elections over at UKR-TAZ, the blog I established in the wake of the 2014 Maidan revolution. (See Four theses on Ukrainian politics and Politics as reality-FB.) The gist of my comments is relevant to the study of social media’s impacts on political and cultural change in general, […]

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Anthropo(s)cenic Chernobyl* in image & text

Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 15, 2018 | 6 Comments »

My Gund Institute research talk from a few months ago, on “Navigating Earth’s ‘Zone of Alienation’: Chernobyl and the Search for Adequate Images of the Anthropocene,” can now be viewed online (see link below). It consists mostly of out-takes from my book Shadowing the Anthropocene, forthcoming later this year from Punctum Books.

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Kyїv, Ukraine

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on October 17, 2016 | 2 Comments »

Since my review of urban geographer Roman Cybriwsky’s excellent book on Kyїv, Ukraine, has not been published yet by the journal I wrote it for, though a second edition has already come out, and since I’ll be visiting the city in a couple of days, I thought I might as well share that review, here. (I’ll […]

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30 Years (or 30,000): Spectral stories of Chernobyl

Posted in Anthropocene, tagged , , , , , , , , , on April 25, 2016 | 4 Comments »

I’ll be giving this talk at the University of Kansas on Thursday. It’ll be exactly two days after the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. And 16 days before the 30th anniversary of Mikhail Gorbachev’s speech about the accident. Pravda (Truth) first reported in any detail on the accident on May 6 and 7. The future of the Soviet […]

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Mission accomplished… not

Posted in Politics, tagged , , on February 23, 2014 | 2 Comments »

UKR-TAZ announces a new mission: The concept of the TAZ, or temporary autonomous zone, comes from “ontological anarchist” writer and poet Hakim Bey (Peter Lamborn Wilson). It is intended to indicate a space of liberation, a space which is at once physical and real, if temporary, and metaphysical — a space of consciousness outside of the […]

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Ukraine & the threat of direct democracy

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , on February 22, 2014 | 3 Comments »

“Power to the millions, not to the millionaires” (#Leftmaidan)   Three forms of democracy vie with each other in Ukraine today. The first of these is what we might call authoritarian democracy. This is a hybrid of democracy and authoritarian rule, in which partially developed democratic institutions can be relatively easily played off against each […]

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‘Country under reconstruction’: Ukraine & the society of the provocation

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , on February 7, 2014 | 14 Comments »

“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 […]

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Ukrainian update

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on January 25, 2014 | 3 Comments »

Regular readers will know of my interest in Ukraine, where I lived for a year as a Canada-USSR Scholar in 1989-90, and where I’ve visited at least ten times since, for varying lengths of time. I’ve been following events unfolding there from afar, and have begun a blog called UKR-TAZ: A Ukrainian Autonomous Zone, which […]

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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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Toronto talk: Ukraine’s anomalous Zone

Posted in Eco-culture, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 1, 2013 | 6 Comments »

My upcoming talk at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs comes from the East European strand of my research. The talk will be called “Becoming Tuteishyi: Peregrinations in the Zona of Ukraine, with Walter, Gloria, Andrei, Bruno, and Other Explorers.” The description reads as follows: Drawing on the author’s research and travels, […]

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Illienko’s poetic cinema

Posted in Cinema, Visual culture, tagged , , , on September 5, 2012 | 2 Comments »

The following is an article I originally wrote in 1989, or maybe 1988, after seeing three films by Ukrainian poetic cinema master Yuri Illienko (a.k.a.  Iurii/Yurij/Jurij Ilyenko/Ilienko/Illyenko/Il’yenko). Two of the films — A Well for the Thirsty and Eve of Kupalo Night, or St. John’s Eve — had languished unseen under Soviet censorship for some […]

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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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