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Russian psychedelia in exile 🍄
By Nikita Petrov · Launched 3 years ago
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Identity, Action, and Art
In the first days of my exile (I left Russia shortly after the invasion of Ukraine and am currently biding my time in Armenia), I taped a conversation with my friend John Horgan, which we posted on Youtube under the title Have Russians Failed as a Nation
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Slander (1906)
I continue to make my way through an archive of “satirical magazines” from the time of Russia’s First Revolution (1905—1907). Here is a feverish story from the first issue of Heat Lightings for the year 1906. They were about to finish a late lunch in a separate room of a chic…
May 20
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The Voice of the Universe (1991)
Pulp fiction meets Scientology meets QAnon in post-Soviet Russia
May 27
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Memetic Tarot / Wojak with a Thousand Faces
Reminder: These Monday posts will soon become available to paying subscribers only. All the money we generate in 2022 will be donated to victims of the war in Ukraine. About two weeks ago, I asked you to send in drawings, stories and anything else you can share about one of…
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My Country Started a War
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Paralysis & Hallucinations
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Heat Lightings: Spooky Satire of the First Russian Revolution
The First Russian Revolution of 1905—1907 didn’t only lead to the creation of Russia’s first Duma and Constitution. It also spawned several hundred…
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May 13
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The Saint of the Desert Returns
The character in the comic above first appeared in Psychopolitica as a prospective new anchor for my Weird News Project. It was created by Giorgos…
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Giorgos Terzakis
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War, Mediated
Substack asked me to write 300 words on “what press independence means to me” for their post celebrating the World Press Freedom Day. I ended up writing…
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May 3
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Fear and Power in the Russian Dreamscape
In August of 2020, I wrote in Putin Does Not Exist: I’ve been playing with the idea of a “psychopolitical method”—a system of views and practices that…
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Giorgos Terzakis
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Glenn Loury Is Having a Terrible Thought
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Mar 27
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Have Russians Failed as a Nation?
Here’s another war-time conversation that I taped with my friend John Horgan this Monday. I ramble a lot in this one. John listens patiently and tries…
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Mar 24
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Nightmare Journal
From the first days of the war
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