{"id":7332,"date":"2014-02-21T10:14:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T15:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=7332"},"modified":"2014-02-21T10:14:14","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T15:14:14","slug":"apocalypstickle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2014\/02\/21\/apocalypstickle\/","title":{"rendered":"Apocalypstickle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2014\/02\/140219_kendzior_kyiv_ap.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-7333\" alt=\"Ukraine Protests\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2014\/02\/140219_kendzior_kyiv_ap.jpg?resize=275%2C149\" width=\"275\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2014\/02\/140219_kendzior_kyiv_ap.jpg?resize=275%2C149&amp;ssl=1 275w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2014\/02\/140219_kendzior_kyiv_ap.jpg?resize=300%2C162&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2014\/02\/140219_kendzior_kyiv_ap.jpg?resize=400%2C216&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2014\/02\/140219_kendzior_kyiv_ap.jpg?w=1160&amp;ssl=1 1160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2014\/02\/140219_kendzior_kyiv_ap.jpg?w=1000 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just as environmental media have a penchant for the spectacle of &#8220;disaster porn,&#8221; so does political media reveal a strong attraction to what Politico&#8217;s Sarah Kendzior, in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2014\/02\/kyiv-ukraine-protests-disaster-porn-103721.html#.Uwdn8UJdXi0\">The Day We Pretended to Care About Ukraine<\/a>,&#8221; calls the &#8220;apocalypstickle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An ugly word for political observers&#8217; weird fascination with apocalyptic imagery. Brueghel, Bosch . . . and heightened internet traffic.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->With my interest in revolution and in Ukraine, I have to admit feeling attracted to those images, too, even as their truth-value repulses me. I continue to explore that truth-value <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/\">at UKR-TAZ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I find videos like this both reassuring and extremely poignant:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7oEs1YViGOs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Those radiant scenes of nonviolent revolution took place just four days before the explosion of machine guns being fired into crowds, dead and bloodied bodies, and horrors <a style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.5em\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/-irp4Y_Kd4Q\">like this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as environmental media have a penchant for the spectacle of &#8220;disaster porn,&#8221; so does political media reveal a strong attraction to what Politico&#8217;s Sarah Kendzior, in &#8220;The Day We Pretended to Care About Ukraine,&#8221; calls the &#8220;apocalypstickle.&#8221; An ugly word for political observers&#8217; weird fascination with apocalyptic imagery. Brueghel, Bosch . . . and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[691215,689354],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics_postpolitics","category-image_nation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-1Ug","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10288,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2019\/12\/02\/the-epistemically-challenged-states-of-america\/","url_meta":{"origin":7332,"position":0},"title":"The Epistemically Challenged States of America","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"December 2, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"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? 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