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A selection of poems from Serhii Zhadan's “The Life of the Virgin Mary” (2015). Translated by Na

Psycho Too bad, says he, They’ll level the city. Like Sodom and Gomorrah. His brother is in asylum. A few days ago the facility had...

City21

“City 21” is the result of eight years’ work. This experimental series explores the meaning of “city” in the 21st century. Possibly...

Ivan Ivanovych by Mykola Khvylovy. A Case for Sherlock Holmes

Drawing by Andrii Klen 'That still won’t make me change my mind – Why do you want me to think in clichés?’ (Ivan Ivanovych) Published in...

Godhead Dethroned: Leninfall as Collective Esoteric Practice

The violent toppling of the Vladimir Lenin monument in Kiev’s Taras Shevchenko Boulevard by far-right extremists on the 8th December 2013...

Lviv’s Prewar Ghost Signs

I love to stumble across remnants of the past, especially ghost signs, which in Lviv occupy a special place in the urban landscape for...

Solidarity without unity as a force for political change: Lack of common identity in the Kiev and Sk

Determining Europe along fault-lines / Being and nothingness The approach to the Other is crucial in determining both the politics and...

The Use and Misuse of Post(-)colonialism in Mirroring the Former Soviet Union and its ‘old periphery

After 1991 Russia’s various efforts to regain and preserve its influence over the former Soviet space have increasingly restored the idea...

In the Becoming

I photograph everything I see: portraits, landscapes, industrial and urban views, animals - it does not matter what’s in the frame, the...

Post-Soviet Leisure

Leisure means “free time”. It is the time free from work, but it is also the time free for…Free for what? For doing nothing? “Leisure”...

Ivan Ivanovych di Mykola Chvyl'ovyj: una storia per Sherlock Holmes

Ivan Ivanovyč è un racconto satirico di Mykola Chvyl’ovyj pubblicato nel 1929. Scritto in terza persona da un narratore partecipe che...