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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
• 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. https://youtu.be/7xYPGVFhrvk
• 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

Conflict Analysis and International Relations

• 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
• 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
• One month of invasion:Summary of observations. By Eurasia team of Free Press UnlimitedFile:FPU leaflet ONE MONTH OF INVASION.pdf

• 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. 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
• Walking Through the Fog of Cyberwarfare - https://blokmagazine.com/walking-through-the-fog-of-cyberwarfare/
• Passivity-Between Resignation and Pacifism by Alexandra Tryanova, Pascal Gielen - https://valiz.nl/en/publications/passivity
• Symposium for Documentation and Archiving Initiatives - https://www.iwm.at/news/the-most-documented-war-symposium-for-documentation-and-archiving-initiatives
• Nuclear Cyberwar: Speeds and Vectors of Energy Terrorism - McLuhan Lecture by Svitlana Matviyenko - https://2023.transmediale.de/en/event/marshall-mcluhan-lecture-2023
• Svitlana Matviyenko's new essay, based on her Transmediale Marshall McLuhan lecture - 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
• The Free Press Show - How does the future of journalism look like? - https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/tegenlicht/kijk/afleveringen/2022-2023/the-free-press-show.html/
• Kyiv: An Unintelligible Trip in an Unintelligible War by Antonis Vradis - https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1351 Lviv
• Vladimir Putin sits atop a crumbling pyramid of power | Vladimir Sorokin - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/27/vladimir-putin-russia-ukraine-power
• De Russische oorlog in Oekraïne speelt zich af op straat, in media, online, en hij wordt verbeeld in taal en literatuur. Woorden brengen troost en verbinding, maar ze kunnen ook verdelen en schaden. Welke rol spelen journalistieke teksten in deze en andere oorlogen? Waarom kunnen we niet zonder proza en poëzie in tijden van strijd? En hoe verandert een oorlog de manier waarop we praten en schrijven? We bestuderen deze vragen met literair vertalers en journalisten die Rusland, Oekraïne en de voormalige Sovjet-Unie van binnenuit kennen. spui25.nl https://spui25.nl/programma/writings-ukraine-and-russia-the-imagination-of-a-region (in Dutch)
• True about Internet as well as books: “Censorship is absolutely antidemocratic and elitist. The process of learning is that of learning how to choose. Freedom isn’t given, it’s earned. Read, learn, and earn it.” ("Whose Lathe?", 1984)
• https://www.ursulakleguin.com/dancing-at-the-edge-of-the-world
• 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

Peace and Sustainability

• https://sustainablepeacemanifesto.org/
• Shaping the NVC Community (Nonviolent Communication) Response to the Russia-Ukraine War https://nvctraining.com/nvc-library/video/shaping-the-nvc-community-response-to-the-russia-ukraine-war?highlight=WyJ1a3JhaW5lIl0=
• Reference to Ursula K. Le Guin's work, which often explores themes of peace and sustainability https://www.ursulakleguin.com/dancing-at-the-edge-of-the-world .
• Reference to Shevchenko's work, which includes themes of peace and national identity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wu3ENVLhj0
• While not directly about peace, this article discusses preserving cultural heritage, which is an aspect of sustainable peace. https://culture.pl/en/article/the-executed-renaissance-the-book-that-saved-ukrainian-literature-from-soviet-oblivion
• 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 | War terminations: insights for the Russia-Ukraine War https://hcss.nl/report/how-wars-end-russia-ukraine/

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
• "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. https://www.peterlang.com/document/1311889
• Reimagining the aftermath of war, now https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/wps/2022/05/10/reimagining-the-aftermath-of-war-now/
• 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.

Technology and Cybersecurity

• 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/
• Walking Through the Fog of Cyberwarfare https://blokmagazine.com/walking-through-the-fog-of-cyberwarfare/
• “Cryptography has failed to address the needs of the disenfranchised. But we can fix that!
  • http://bit.ly/3KYomFe
  • https://shiftprint.writeas.com/ru-v-net
• 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
• 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/

Academic and Cultural Initiatives

• Symposium for Documentation and Archiving Initiatives - https://www.iwm.at/news/the-most-documented-war-symposium-for-documentation-and-archiving-initiatives
• Institute of Mass Information in Kyiv - https://fixersandjournalists.humanities.uva.nl/
• The NIAS Safe Haven fellowship supports scholars, artists, writers and journalists who are not able to do their work in their current location because of the consequences of the war in Ukraine.- https://nias.knaw.nl/fellowships/safe-haven-fellowship/
• Call for Applications: Display Europe Micro-Grants – European Cultural Foundation - https://culturalfoundation.eu/stories/call-for-applications-display-europe-micro-grants/
• New media project initiated by international scientific community to open up the discussion in Russia and Ukraine about rebuilding of scientific life after the war. https://www.t-invariant.org/
• UvA professor Ellen Rutten wants European university for refugee academics - https://www.folia.nl/international/150626/uva-professor-ellen-rutten-wants-european-university-for-refugee-academics
• "Media and the War in Ukraine" - published by Peter Lang. Edited by Mette Mortensen and Mervi Pantti - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1311889
• Application of the Risk Management Framework to Russian Disinformation Campaigns - https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/c1d645d0-42f5-11ee-a8b8-01aa75ed71a1/language-de

Art and Culture

• 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
• Welcome to the largest open song archive of Ukrainian folklore. Very soon our grandmas will sing in the Internet! www.polyphonyproject.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl4W6cxVVMY
• Original of Saturday's poem that Nellie Bly read at the First Coffee event in Kyiv, plus English translation. File:Ключі сумують за своїми дверима.pdf Also:
  • Danse Macabre File:Danse Macabre.pdf
  • Totentanz File:Totentanz.pdf

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/