mastodon 4.7.3semi-periphery: eastfloc sound connects artists and cultural context from former eastbloc and diasporas
The theme of our next RUTA conference is freedom—what it is and what it isn’t. Who are the theorists, dissidents, and artists from the RUTA regions of Europe's East, Baltic, Caucasus, Central & Northern Asia—and globally—whose work we build on when we think about what freedom and oppression entail?
Keep an eye on our social media and website for the official CFP launch. We look forward to exploring what freedom is, and what it isn’t, with you.
"Ruscism, like other forms of fascism, upholds an ultranationalist and dictatorial political system with a strong supreme leader who demands complete obedience from citizens (including all those living in Russian speaking territories)."
https://theconversation.com/russian-fascism-the-six-principles-of-putins-nationalist-ideology-218182
The Pitfalls of Campism: Global Perspectives
speakers:
Ladan Rahbari — University of Amsterdam
Robin Yassin-Kassab — author of еhe Road from Damascus; The Blood Between Us
Rafael Uzcategui — Laboratorio de Paz
Mariia Vorotilina — curator and activist
who are best current eastfloc thinkers?
In an exclusive extract from his new book Ukrainian Field Notes, Gianmarco Del Re explores the soundscape of ScanEagles and Shahed drones turning the skies over Kyiv into a sonic warzone
The Sounds of War: Drones Over Ukraine
#tb 2023: How to be in this world? In conversation with AGF and Mary C @marysi@witter.cz by Ján Solčáni
"Our goal is to listen to each other and care about our relations, build bonds, and create new structures in human relations and beyond them. Then things become much more bearable even under huge pressure."
Mary C
https://34.sk/en/how-to-be-in-this-world-in-conversation-with-agf-and-mary-c
phew
🏠 THE FUTURE OF HIDING by Francisco Martínez analyzes the territorial dimensions of secrecy and how concealment unfolds around energy infrastructure and identity politics in eastern Estonia. #Anthropology
📘 Learn more here: https://ow.ly/5E7A50XlzIW
Staldzene, Latvia, in beach sand:
https://aporee.org/maps/?loc=72775
#radioaproree
* Staldzene, Latvia, in beach sand (3:50min., by alas23/sala)
Hyrasia One: Kazakhstan's Green Hydrogen Mega-Project
https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/54897/hyrasia-one-kazakhstans-green-hydrogen-mega-project
#phonon~ swarming 04/24 w/ Katarina Kadijević
Radio Punctum
https://soundcloud.com/radiopunctum/phonon-swarming-0424-w-katarina-kadijevic
against netstalgia
OPEN CALL
https://error417.expectation.fail/406/netstalgia-not-acceptable/open-call
What does digital capitalism look like beyond Silicon Valley? Andrea Pollio talks to Tinhinan El Kadi about the five years he spent among renegade Chinese entrepreneurs, Kenyan state planners, VC analysts, and engineers in Nairobi's Silicon Savannah, the subject of his new book, 'Silicon Elsewhere'.
https://globalchinapulse.net/silicon-elsewhere-a-conversation-with-andrea-pollio/
who is gonna check him?
COSMOS
by Artur Rumiński
Pocztówki
by Artur Ruminski
103 #Macedonia run by eponymously named radio
https://stotrojka.bandcamp.com/
China's War on EUROPE - How it Enables & Supports Russia's Assault on Ukraine & Europe! #siliconcurtain
https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/chinas-war-on-europe-how-it-enables-supports-russias/id1661722315?i=1000765947756
Your Periphery Is My Center by Oramics: Poland | kacha
https://soundcloud.com/oramicspl/your-periphery-is-my-center-by-oramics-poland-femalesonly-kacha
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland:
Ursus train station. (1:54min., by Andrzej Maciejewski)
Warm Winters Ltd in The Wire 503/504,
playlist of releases from the Bratislava based label
https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/unlimited-editions-warm-winters-ltd
A long-overdue reissue of Romanian Spectral music pioneer Corneliu Cezar's lone solo suite, 1965 - 1975, an electroacoustic masterpiece bending plucked strings, whistling reeds, bells, percussion and choral motifs thru screwed tape echoes...
@boomkatonline@bird.makeup
https://boomkat.com/products/ziua-fara-sfar-it
How to Make Noise: Tactics of Resistance Around the World
several collectives about how they have “made noise” in order to challenge oppressive systems and resist corrupt politics. Joining this talk are Alena Verbitskaya & Berk Uslu (IDGK, Istanbul), Anton Nazarko (Some People, Kharkiv), Vitalii Nemchenko (20ft Radio, Kyiv), Al-Shaheen Falcon (Blastingdienst, NL) and Geef Tegengas (NL). #LGW
Ukraine's president Zelenskyy is Jewish and Ukraine has been consistently pro Crimean Tartar.. Literally the spark that started Euro Maidan "Mustafa Nayem" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Nayyem
The "Narva People's Republic" now has a flag, a coat of arms, and a Telegram network. Ukraine saw this playbook in 2014 – now it's appearing in a NATO member state.
The same "People's Republic" branding that preceded Russia's Donbas occupation is targeting Estonia's border region.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/17/narva-peoples-republic-estonia/
Two earthquakes of rare magnitude struck Venezuela on June 24, seconds apart. Tens of thousands of people are still missing but help still has not arrived.
Andreya Casablanca sings...
https://andreyacasablanca.bandcamp.com/album/andreya-casablanca-sings
Poland is the only EU member with no legal rights for same-sex couples and a pro-reform government blocked from delivering them.
Compare partnership rights across EU states →
https://connectrealdots.com/pola…
https://connectrealdots.com/poland-lgbtq-rights-veto?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
Mari Kalkun
Flight Beneath the Northern Sky
https://www.marikalkun.com/video
The Afghan-Ukrainian Mustafa Nayyem started off Euromaidan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Nayyem
more war
The scope of Chinese assistance to russia’s war in Ukraine is truly staggering.
61% of the total identified in the investigation. The next‑largest sources were Turkey at 5%, Hong Kong at 3%, the United Arab Emirates at 2%, and India at 1%
https://www.newsweek.com/thousands-chinese-firms-supplying-russia-war-ukraine-11672403
