Monthly Archives: October 2008
Peter Watkins: La Commune
David Riff: The Paris Commune as Seen by Nineteenth-Century Television La Commune by Peter Watkins is probably one of the best films I have ever seen online. It is also one of the longest. In fact, its duration is five … Continue reading
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Chronicles of Perestroika
Chronicles of Perestroika This film by Dmitry Vilensky is intended to be viewed before Perestroika Songspiel (see below). Vilensky turned two hours of archive footage into sixteen minutes of video. This footage of demonstrations in Leningrad during perestroika (1987-1991) was provided by … Continue reading
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Vlad & Friend Boris: “Song for Sarah (Mrs. Palin)”
Hello Sarah Palin we wrote this song for you because we see you from Russia! Plz respond to our emails!! We like to hear from you!!
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Chto Delat Weekly Reader No. 5
More news from the invisible front in the war of all against all. This week’s topics include: Eric Hobsbawm, Paul Virilio, Steven Shaviro, and Rick Kuhn on the world financial crisis; the effects of the crisis in Russia and the … Continue reading
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The Fascist Regime in the US: Police Nearly Kill Iraq War Vet at Peaceful Protest
This shocking report comes to us via Brian Holmes on the nettime mailing list. Here is how he prefaced it: Sorry for any cross-posting, but this material from Emily Foreman is important to get out. Despite the good news from the … Continue reading
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Tronti and Badiou on the Crisis
Mario Tronti, Politics at Work It is time to engage in a new research project. Our theme is: work and politics. Yes, because it is a novelty to concern ourselves with this theme. It says a lot about the condition we … Continue reading
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Nikolay Oleynikov: NOFUCKINFUNNY
NIKOLAY OLEYNIKOV NOFUCKINFUNNY 7:00 p.m., October 23, 2008 Paperworks Gallery ART Strelka Cultural Center Moscow, Bersenevskaya nab., 14, bldg. 5 Metro: Kropotinskaya Musical guests: DJ Fakie Mistake: minimal warm-up Kirill Medvedev and Prohor: Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “On Violence” and other … Continue reading
New Street University: Stop the Murder of Frogs on Russian Soil!
On October 19, 2008, New Street University (Petersburg), Humane Education (Moscow), and OD Group (Moscow) carried out a joint action in a pedestrian underpass on Nevsky Prospect. During the action, which took the form of a man-on-the-street survey, real live … Continue reading
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Somebody Got Murdered: The Death of Olga Rukosyla
Olga Rukosyla was murdered by neo-Nazis on the evening of October 8, 2008, in Irkutsk I first saw this face, these eyes (on this photograph) twenty minutes ago. Since then, I haven’t been able to stop shaking, although I knew … Continue reading
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