@lisares
Assistant professor @ University of Groningen. π"The Trump Carnival: Populism, Transgression and the Far Right" https://rb.gy/493gts π "Everyday foreign policy: Performing and consuming the Russian nation" https://rb.gy/8yyzy4
I started teaching a conflict management class with a Ukraine case study in early Feb 2022, added a Karabakh session in early 2023 and just yesterday we were discussing βthe board of peaceβ π€¦π»ββοΈ
Stay safe, Paul!
What's the stage of mediatization that makes one want to crush their own bones?...
Four years ago today, we went to bed only to wake to the sound of explosions the first many of us had ever heard. We woke up to war.
βSince then, the war has been with us every second. No one is truly safe, no one is okay, and the future remains uncertain. Even when we laugh,
Nikolay died on Feb 20th 2026. He was an incredibly talented man, who could find words and music to describe Russia's gaping wounds. I don't have my own words.
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Russia's war against Ukraine? "Apple Orchard"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=12Cs...
societal apathy and alienation? "The structures do not go out onto the streets"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEpo...
Inequality and dire economic conditions? "20"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi7S...
Xenophobia and terrorist attacks? "Frightening"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUdt...
Militarisation of society? "Moscow speaking"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d1A...
screenshot from a student-learning portal with a black-and-white photograph of Nikolay Komyagin and inscription "politics and society 1: Russian"
When my students enrol into Russian Politics and Society course, they see a photograph of Nikolay Komyagin from a Russian art-punk band Shortparis. Not another picture of St. Basil's cathedral or nesting dolls. You can take a song from Shortparis and literally teach post-Soviet Russian politics π§΅
Erinnert mich an den Artikel ΓΌber die Modeentscheidungen von Thierry Baudet in der Volkskrant π« π« π«
First seminar on Russian politics and culture of the semester: ended up analysing Ilya's Russian monologue from #heatedrivalry with the students. If that's not something that will get the kids to class I don't know what will!
Well, Russian foreign ministry often cites Gramsci!
Bonus: @greenleejw.bsky.social βs drawings work really well as embroidery patterns!
How do Russian political and cultural elites legitimize the war on Ukraine, three years into what was supposed to last only a couple of days? And how do these justifications change over time?
Elizaveta Gaufman (@lisares.bsky.social) has a couple of ideas on this: open.spotify.com/episode/36CY...
New preprint is out!
Focusing on Russia, this paper asks what happens when disinformation awareness itself becomes a tool of authoritarian rule. We often assume that learning about disinformation increases resistance to propaganda. But what if the regime weaponises it? 1/7
Funded collaborative PhD opportunity on contested memory with me in @oupolitics.bsky.social and Arthur Dudney at Arcadia:
granduniondtp.web.ox.ac.uk/contested-hi...
Deadline 7th Jan, please share!
Come work with me! π©π»βπ»
β’ Al Overview The image displays a tweet from Zohran Kwame Mamdani, dated September 11, 2001, at 9:23 AM, containing the text "Y'all smell something burnin'? sips tea". This tweet is shown within a larger screenshot of a social media post expressing strong negative opinions about Mamdani's potential candidacy for Mayor of NYC. β’ The tweet's timestamp, September 11, 2001, at 9:23 AM, places it shortly after the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. β’ The phrase "Y'all smell something burnin'?" is highly insensitive given the context of the 9/11 attacks and the resulting fires and smoke. β’ The inclusion of "sips tea" further trivializes the tragic events of that day. β’ The larger post criticizes Mamdani's political viability and links it to alleged "narcissistic behavior" of other political figures, Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo. β’ The image appears to be a screenshot shared to highlight Mamdani's controversial past tweet in the context of a current political discussion.
Read it and weep. It was a google AI description of a fake Mamdani Tweet about 9/11
Pics, because it did happen
Still grateful to @jrnlregsec.bsky.social for publishing it back in the day
pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6b5c/c0e0045...
You know who else called the EU the fourth reich? People (and trolls) who opposed Ukraineβs signing of Association agreement in 2013. Somebody even wrote a paper about this!
FWIW ππ½
Which is exactly where the article comes into play: rule following is masculine coded *in settings where the superiors issuing orders are expected to be men.* In schools, where most of the teachers are women, it's seen as normal and expected for boys to be unruly or outright defiant.
βIf civilization is what counts β¦ the likelihood of violence between Ukrainians and Russians should be low. They are two Slavic, primarily Orthodox peoples who have had close relationships with each other for centuries.β
Do you want to know how Trump won? You love reading about the Middle Ages and hate racists? I have an OPEN ACCESS book for you!
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Hicks, M. T., Humphries, J., & Slater, J. (2024). ChatGPT is bullshit. Ethics and Information Technology, 26(2), 1-10.
Bender, E. M., Gebru, T., McMillan-Major, A., & Shmitchell, S. (2021, March). On the dangers of stochastic parrots: Can language models be too big?π¦.
