TacticalMediaRoom/Signal-Publications, Essays, Presentations & Reports

Back to Signal Main Page

War, Crimes and Human Rights Violations

• The cycle of escalations, spy antics, j'accuse, meatwaves, waves of misinformation, disinformation, and too much information are definite fearmongering. Folks have the option to sober up and regain confidence. https://youtu.be/DQN6zgYFfRo?si=e6_hu3FF-PbMO-wJ
• 20 Days in Mariopol may be found on PBS.org. You'll need to set your VPN to the States to view the film itself (sans Youtube): https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/20-days-in-mariupol/
• ‘It felt like the beginning of the third world war … It still does’ – Mstyslav Chernov on 20 Days in Mariupol

The Pulitzer prize-winning journalist at the heart of the Oscar-tipped documentary describes the weeks he and his team spent in the besieged city – and why they were willing to take the risk https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/sep/29/20-days-in-mariupol -

• Our Enemies Will Vanish - A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian people in their resistance by Yaroslav Trofimov, out now https://yarotrof.com/
• https://culture.pl/en/article/the-executed-renaissance-the-book-that-saved-ukrainian-literature-from-soviet-oblivion
• https://youtu.be/7xYPGVFhrvk Some heroes survived, some were killed. "The Long Day" is a document written in the voices of Ukrainians. It is a unique testimony to the tragic events and crimes of russia, through the eyes of Ukrainians that the whole world must see and feel.
• BULLET HOLES | An investigation into Russia’s systemic killings of Ukrainian children https://youtu.be/E-coT5t70Tg?si=-NF6dL9UgTg17DiB
• UPROOTED | An investigation into Russia’s abduction of Ukrainian children https://youtu.be/cq2gEMhuDps?si=XM1oRxnYkUlIDrCv

Media outlets and communication channels

• public internet activist Ian Forrester from BBC R&D started a reading list on public internet: https://bookwyrm.social/list/2981/s/inspiring-books-for-a-publicservice-interenet
• https://sustainablepeacemanifesto.org/
• https://www.peterlang.com/document/1311889 "Media and the War in Ukraine" - published by Peter Lang. Edited by Mette Mortensen and Mervi Pantti, this timely volume gathers the work from diverse scholars on the pivotal role digital media and communication play in influencing and shaping the narrative of the war in Ukraine.

Politics and Economy

• Where state capitalism meets the transnational capitalist state: The ties between Gazprom and Amsterdam’s offshore financial center https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373612117_Where_state_capitalism_meets_the_transnational_capitalist_state_The_ties_between_Gazprom_and_Amsterdam's_offshore_financial_center
• Quite an interesting article, focusing on European apathy in front of Putin. It shows quite well how in the past 10 years Putin the possibility to escalate. I hope this European reflection will deepen, to take a stance against the biggest criminal of the 21st century. https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/08/18/poetin-viel-oekraine-binnen-in-2014-maar-toen-bleef-het-westen-dagdromen-over-dialoog-en-deescalatie-a4172235

Technology and Cybersecurity

• Walking Through the Fog of Cyberwarfare https://blokmagazine.com/walking-through-the-fog-of-cyberwarfare/

Academia

"PhD Position in Infrastructural Ideologies in the EU, Russia, and China" https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-Position-in-Infrastructural-Ideologies-in-the-EU%2C-Russia%2C-and-China/792176802/

Other

• Where art is born. In memoriam of Artur Snitkus - by Karyna Lazaruk https://networkcultures.org/tactical-media-room/2024/07/11/where-art-is-born-in-memoriam-artur-snitkus/
• Ksenyia of UKRAiNATV wrote her first essay on the war and her visit to Kyiv: https://networkcultures.org/tactical-media-room/2024/07/12/echoes-of-war/
• #Shevchenko was nicknamed Kobzar, the Bard, keeper of the people's memory. And his instructions to his descendants became extremely relevant to the world in the last two years, during #russia's full-scale invasion of #Europe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wu3ENVLhj0

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl4W6cxVVMY Internet? /// polyphonyproject.com

• Europe After the Death of Peace of Mind By Vasyl Cherepanyn, Eurozine, 28 August 2023 https://www.eurozine.com/europe-after-the-death-of-peace-of-mind/

• Passivity-Between Resignation and Pacifism by Alexandra Tryanova, Pascal Gielen (OK short booklet in NL and ENG): https://valiz.nl/en/publications/passivity - ‘A pacifist is a rare beast in a bomb shelter.’ The war in Ukraine challenged our idea of pacifism. Should Europe take up arms or not? Can it ease its conscience only with humanitarian aid? Isn’t Europe's attitude towards the war mainly driven by economic motives? In Passivity, Ukrainian art curator Alexandra Tryanova and Belgian sociologist Pascal Gielen engage in a dialogue about this. In doing so, they not only talk about the current political situation, but also look at themselves; at their own fears and privileges. What is passivity in our own daily doings? When does pacifism turn into resignation? How do our surrounding media and culture contribute to such an attitude? Passivity does not provide unifying answers to these questions. Rather, it looks for ways to find peace with our own mixed feelings.
• Symposium for Documentation and Archiving Initiatives https://www.iwm.at/news/the-most-documented-war-symposium-for-documentation-and-archiving-initiatives
• How Russia is waging a crypto war in Ukraine...and losing (video & report) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5jQr8nHy7U https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/russia-ukraine-war-cryptocurrency-one-year/
• The video recording of this year’s McLuhan Lecture by Svitlana Matviyenko and moderated by Nabil Ahmed on Nuclear Cyberwar: Speeds and Vectors of Energy Terrorism is now available to watch on our website and on transmediale’s Youtube channel https://2023.transmediale.de/en/event/marshall-mcluhan-lecture-2023
• Svitlana Matviyenko's new essay, based on her Transmediale Marshall McLuhan lecture, here: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/134/525421/speeds-and-vectors-of-energy-terrorism/
• in German: the Habermas debate, in response to his proposal to start negotiations between Ukraine and Russia https://www.perlentaucher.de/9punkt/2023-02-16.html?nle_id=10847
• UkrainaTV program - https://soundcloud.com/microfreeq
• The one hour contribution of VOID/INC/HvA in Amsterdam to the 24 hour 'February 24' live stream of UkrainaTV, working out of the art academy in Krakow, including an interview I did with Svitlana Matviyenko: https://vimeo.com/showcase/9620223
• At University of Siegen (D) we’ve organised a lecture series in response to the Russian war in Ukraine in solidarity with the protests in Iran. We’ve opened it up for researchers from various war and conflict zones. Its not only media studies, but perhaps of interest to some of you or your networks. We start today at 6 pm via zoom with Svitlana Matviyenko and the media practices and everyday politics of collecting evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine. Best wishes, Tatjana Seitz https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/de/veranstaltungen/lecture-series-research-at-risk-svitlana-matviyenko/
• https://www.wereldbrand.nl/2022/04/08/redacteuren-doxa-hangt-gevangenisstraf-boven-het-hoofd/
• http://bit.ly/3KYomFe “Cryptography has failed to address the needs of the disenfranchised. But we can fix that! https://shiftprint.writeas.com/ru-v-net
• The Free Press Show Hoe ziet de toekomst van de journalistiek eruit? In veel landen staat de onafhankelijke journalistiek onder druk. Toch tonen veel journalisten zich strijdvaardig. Ze gebruiken data mining en hackersmethoden of zetten nieuwe netwerken en internationale samenwerkingen op. Hoe zullen de journalisten van de toekomst omgaan met dictators en kan nieuwe technologie hen daarbij helpen? Mediawetenschapper Mark Deuze geeft aan de hand van zijn beeldarchief een blik op de oorlog, die niet alleen op het slagveld maar ook in de media wordt uitgevochten. https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/tegenlicht/kijk/afleveringen/2022-2023/the-free-press-show.html/
• Lviv – Kyiv: An Unintelligible Trip in an Unintelligible War Antonis Vradis https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1351
• From a Ukrainian colleague, a recommendation: "Some twitter accounts to follow: @DmytroKuleba (Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, I saw this account being prised for efficient communication, could be interesting from professional point of view as well), @Kyivindependent, @ukraine_world (news in English), @andersostlund (a Swedish journalist reporting from Kyiv), @nolanwpeterson (war reporter based in Ukraine since 2014).
• Taking on Putin through porn: how Russians are finding out the truth about Ukraine | Jemimah Steinfeld Little moderation, huge audiences and biddable owners make porn and gambling sites a safe haven from censors, says Jemimah Steinfeld, editor-in-chief of Index on Censorship https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/02/putin-porn-russians-truth-ukraine-gambling-sites
• Novaya Gazeta Europe will cover what is happening in Russia in several languages. It will cover international and Russian news for people who read in Russian and who share European values.https://novayagazeta.eu/
• https://www.hva.nl/content/nieuws/nieuwsberichten/2022/03/lector-geert-lovink-blogt-met-oekraiense-collegas-over-de-oorlog.html
• The Last Days Of Mariupol’s Internet - Engineers who kept Ukraine’s port city online have gone missing or died in the carnage inflicted by Russia’s siege. Hope remains that Ukrainian cities knocked off the internet map will come back online fast—once the shelling ends.
  https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2022/03/31/the-last-days-of-mariupols-internet/?sh=514f41a45962
• A Wikipedia author has been arrested in Belarus. Wikipedia advises all editors in Belarus and Russia to hide their personal data, and to write/complete articles about war only from secret accounts.Question: If they write under a pseudonym, is their IP address untraceable, or are they masked by Wikipedia?
• MFFR komt met statement uit om Russische en Belarussische jourhttps://verblijfblog.nl/tijdelijke-bescherming-van-oekrainers-in-nederland/ more info: https://ovd.news/news/2022/03/02/russian-protests-against-war-ukraine-chronicle-events
• File:FPU leaflet ONE MONTH OF INVASION.pdf
• Platform Geopolitics in 2022: Russian Invasion of Ukraine – an incomplete overview https://isoc.nl/nieuws/platform-geopolitics-in-2022-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-an-incomplete-overview
• Reimagining the aftermath of war, now https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/wps/2022/05/10/reimagining-the-aftermath-of-war-now/
• Russian soldiers fighting for Ukraine against the Russian Army driving through the Poltava region. https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1520472404987990018
• How do wars end? HCSS director of research Tim Sweijs and assistant analyst Mattia Bertolini consider what we can learn from past war terminations: how long they last, how they end and factors that

https://hcss.nl/report/how-wars-end-russia-ukraine/

• Vladimir Putin sits atop a crumbling pyramid of power | Vladimir Sorokin https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/27/vladimir-putin-russia-ukraine-power

Tactical Media Room

• Radically Different Society: Ukrainian Art in the Light of Revolution, in the Shadow of War by Lesia Kulchynska https://networkcultures.org/tactical-media-room/2023/08/11/radically-different-society/
• Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 17 by Svitlana Matviyenko https://networkcultures.org/tactical-media-room/2023/05/03/dispatches-from-the-place-of-imminence-part-17/
• https://networkcultures.org/tactical-media-room/2022/08/09/sandro-mezzadra-toni-negri-join-the-global-fight-against-the-regime-of-war/
• https://networkcultures.org/tactical-media-room/2023/03/05/giulia-timis-reflections-on-ukrainatv-transmediale/
• Konrad Wojnowski: Broadcasting (and) Cleansing-Review of UKRAiNATV’s 24hr Live Stream https://networkcultures.org/tactical-media-room/2023/03/07/konrad-wojnowski-broadcasting-and-cleansing-review-of-ukrainatvs-24hr-live-stream/
• https://networkcultures.org/tactical-media-room/2023/04/10/dispatches-from-the-place-of-imminence-part-16/. Svitlana Matviyenko in the Netherlands April 12-18, speaking at the opening of the UvA critical infrastructures lab and then at STRP festival in Eindhoven. Dispatch #16 about her December visit to Kyiv.
• Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 9 https://networkcultures.org/blog/2022/05/10/dispatches-from-the-place-of-imminence-part-9/
• Investigative Fiction: Evidence and its Discontents by Anna Engelhardt https://networkcultures.org/void/?p=459&preview=1&_ppp=7a607c01a3
• Lesia Kulchynska: Dark Matter of Image https://networkcultures.org/tactical-media-room/2023/02/16/lesia-kulchynska-dark-matter-of-image/