Associate Prof @sfuCMNS Assoc Dir @SFU_DDI | cyberwar, infrastructure, psychoanalysis, nuclear heritage, Chornobyl | coauthor CYBERWAR & REVOLUTION etc

Vancouver, British Columbia
Joined September 2008
This is a huge honour! Our deepest gratitude for the work of the CCA award committee - thank you!!
Congrats to Nick Dyer-Witheford and Svitlana Matviyenko, winners of the CCA 2020 Gertrude J. Robinson book prize! Cyberwar and Revolution: Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism is a must read: upress.umn.edu/book-division…
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All that oil spilling from three Russian tankers—part of its shadow fleet—isn’t just heading to Russia; it’s polluting the entire Black Sea. This could turn into one of the region’s worst ecological disasters. Honestly, does this country ever brings anything good to the world?
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While you wake up in the U.S. to celebrate Thanksgiving, imagine spending it in a freezing bomb shelter. This morning, Ukrainians endured one of the largest Russian missile attacks yet—part of 1,500 strikes since Sunday. This isn’t war; it’s pure terror. America has a foreign policy that it doesn’t negotiate with terrorists. It shouldn’t expect Ukraine to do the same with their insane neighbours.
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Mariinka, Ukraine. The hellscape of the “Russian world” has come. Population: 0.
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Stand with Ukriane! I've signed this open letter calling for an air defence zone over Western Ukraine and all $300bn of Russian assets to be seized to pay for it... please add your support democratic-strategy.net/_fil…
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1/ X's algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to systematically boost Republican-leaning accounts and Elon Musk's own account following his endorsement of Donald Trump, according to a newly released computational study of engagement from the Queensland University of Technology.⬇️
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Join us for "Dronomation: Post-Civil Drones and Artificial ‚Intelligence‘ in War Zones" organized by Hito Steyerl & Francis Hunger on December 3, 2024, on-line, 12.00–20.00 CET register: generativemedia.net/event/dr…
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A Russian prankster sent a fake letter, in the name of the Putin's party, ordering school teachers to make tinfoil hats to protect themselves from NATO and put photo online. Some teachers complied. Teachers!
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Buy this book and buy it as presents for your friends. Congratulations @eugene_finkel !
Intent to Destroy is here! A book that I never imagined writing, hated to write and now so glad I did. This is the UK version, the US one has a different cover, though both are published by Basic Books @BasicBooks and @BasicBooksUK. So, a short 🧵
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ONE WEEK AWAY!
We are thrilled to host this fantastic talk (Nov 15) by Dr. @ZeniaKish "Remediating the Soil: Grounding Elemental Media in the Russo-Ukrainian War" digitaldemocracies.org/calen… @SFU @SFUENV @SFU_DDI @FCATatSFU @sfuCMNS @AdrianIvakhiv @HumanitiesSfu #elemental_media #war_pollution
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...this is just were i always stay in Kyiv....
Under the protection of the US that forbids Ukraine from striking Russia's launchers, Russians hit Kyiv with another 8 hour drone attack that targeted residential buildings all over the city. Local landmark building, "Jack House" before and after the attack.
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Stay with us in Lviv for a month to work on your documentation project. You’ll take part in our programme of institutional visits, internal seminars, public-facing events, and meetings with cultural workers and academics who are chronicling the ru war and Ukrainian resistance.
INDEX is delighted to announce our new programme: Visiting Scholar in Residence  💜 We invite academics, cultural practitioners, and journalists based in Ukraine or abroad who are involved in documenting the war to apply for monthly residencies in Lviv: bit.ly/4egRxSb
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That's a remarkable document. Essentially, a blueprint for Ukraine's destruction as a state: no army, no weapons, communist symbols, Russian as state language and UA pays for the reconstruction of Donbas that then goes to Russia. Full control, but for free meduza.io/en/feature/2024/11…
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Svitlana Matviyenko retweeted
Here’s how much Russia has ramped up Shahed drone attacks: just this October, they launched 2,023 drones. Since the start of the year, it’s been 6,987.
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How Russian imperialism works & why culture matters: destroy a language/culture, enforce russification; world has no knowledge of that culture & thus no concept of the political nation it represents as separate from Russia; world accepts Ru rule over that nation as natural. Done.
OTD in 1937 the Night of the Murdered Poets in Belarus. Stalin’s NKVD executed 132 members of the Belarusian elite in one night. Imagine it being state policy to do such a thing in this day and age…
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