Debating propaganda
We talked a lot at this conference about propaganda and the ongoing information war. The amount of material being pushed and promoted not only in Russia but also in the West is vast and many times...
View ArticleWhat if the conference took place on Maidan?
Coffee machines in Sotnia’s tent to the right. A translators’ tent and equipment to the left. A stage and video monitors would already be there; space open and accessible. Only the weather would be an...
View ArticleThe elephant not in the room
In its Soviet heyday, the town of Lysychansk, Luhansk oblast, had close to fifty working factories. Today, there are four or five – locals argue over the exact figure –, and of these two are teetering...
View ArticleRebuilding the fundaments of the European project
Apart from annexing Crimea and destabilizing the Ukrainian state, one of the biggest successes of Vladimir Putin’s during the past few months have been revealing the weakness of European identity’s...
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Public lectures on video
Parallel to the main panel discussions at the Kyiv conference, some participants also gave public lectures directed to young Kyivan students. In rooms just as cramped as the big hall of the NaUKMA...
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Britain flouts the European Court of Justice
When the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) repealed the EU’s 2009 Data Retention Directive in April, it was generally acknowledged to have been a reasonable response to a poorly conceived...
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Cultures of the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene is very much in the air at the moment. Last week, The Anthropocene Project: A Report opened at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, with a programme that includes three...
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Law and Border – House Search in Fortress Europe: Further resources
Eurozine’s 2014 conference, entitled “Law and Border – House Search in Fortress Europe”, was organized by the European network of cultural journals, Eurozine, in cooperation with La Fondazione Giuseppe...
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A master of the daily grind
On Sunday 30 November, Turkish publisher Osman Deniztekin died in a hospital in Istanbul, just a few weeks after having been diagnosed with leukemia. He was 65. Osman was co-publisher and manager of...
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EZ Gallery / TIME magazine’s top ten photos of 2014
TIME magazine has announced its top ten photos of 2014, which include an aerial shot of a boat containing at least 500 people attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea and reach Europe. The image was...
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Greek bailout referendum, Euro Summit, Germope
Victor Tsilonis of Intellectum (Greece) comments on the latest developments in the Greek crisis: the short-lived euphoria of the 5 July referendum, Alexis Tsipras’s subsequent “mental waterboarding”,...
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In memoriam: Aleš Debeljak (1961–2016)
On 28 January 2016, Aleš Debeljak died in a car crash in Slovenia. He will be much missed as an agile and compelling essayist, a formidable public speaker and a charming personality. The Slovene...
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