Psychopolitica

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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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…
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Pulp fiction meets Scientology meets QAnon in post-Soviet Russia
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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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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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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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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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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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A Weird News Project animation
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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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From the first days of the war
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