Anastasia Izvoschikova, “Ruka z zhovto-blakytnym brasletom: tilo biytsya peredaly ridnym dlya pokhovannya” (A hand with a yellow-blue bracelet: the soldier’s body was handed over to his relatives for burial), Suspinle Media, September 23, 2022 →; Olga Muzyka, “Eto mog byt' lyuboy iz nas: ukraintsy rasprostranyayut foto ruki s sine-zheltym brasletom iz Izyuma” (It could be any of us: Ukrainians spread a photo of a hand with a blue-and-yellow Izyum bracelet), 24TV, September 17, 2022 →.
See, among others, these text by my colleagues: Oleksiy Radynskyi, “The Case Against the Russian Federation,” e-flux journal, no. 25 (March 2022) →; Asia Bazdyrieva, “No Milk, No Love,” e-flux journal, no. 127 (May 2022) →; Lia Dostlieva and Andrii Dostliev, “Not All Criticism Is Russophobic: On Decolonial Approach to Russian Culture,” Blok, March 29, 2022 →; Vasyl Cherepanyn, “The Freedom Lecture: If My Pen Were Worth Your Gun,” deBALIE, Amsterdam, July 11, 2022 →; Svitlana Matviyenko, “Dispatches from the Place of Imminence” (parts 1–11), Institute of Network Cultures, February 25–July 11, 2022 →; Sociologica 16, no. 2 (October 2022) →.
See, for example, Maja Povrzanović Frykman, “The War and After: On War-Related Anthropological Research in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina,” Etnol 33, no. 26 (2003) →.
Oraib Toukan, “Cruel Images,” e-flux journal, no. 96 (January 2019) →.
Asami Terajima, “Wife of Izium Mass Grave Victim Learns of Husband’s Death from Viral Photo,” Kyiv Independent, September 28, 2022 →.
In 2017 a similar thing happened to London-based Ukrainian historian Olesya Khromeychuk, who discovered on Facebook that her brother had been killed during the war in Donbas. She found further information about her brother’s death on other social media and the news. While mourning, she decided to collect screenshots of all the places online where her brother’s name appeared. She wrote a book and a play based on this loss. See Olesya Khromeychuk, A Loss: The Story of a Dead Soldier Told by His Sister (Monoray, 2022).
Albina Poncheko, “V odnoy iz mogil v Izyume obnaruzhili telo muzhchiny, kotoromu okkupanty otrezali polovyye organy” (In one of the graves in Izyum, they found the body of a man whose genitals were cut off by the invaders), Obozrevatel, August 18, 2022 →; Anastasia Bagalika, Ihor Kotelyanets, and Marta Havryshko, “Chomu ne mozhna movchaty pro seksualʹne nasylʹstvo rosiyan nad viysʹkovopolonenymy cholovikamy?” (Why can’t we be silent about the sexual violence of Russians against male prisoners of war?), Hromadske radio, November 19, 2022 →.
“Rape Becomes ‘a Weapon of War,’” New York Times, January 10, 1993 →.
Regarding the Pain of Others (Penguin Books, 2003).
On the topic of language in the war, see poet Ostap Slyvynskyi’s presentation for the online symposium “The Reconstruction of Ukraine,” September 2022 →.
The Civil Contract of Photography (Zone Books, 2008).
My understanding of freedom is grounded in Hannah Arendt’s essay “What is Freedom?” from her collection Between Past and Future (Viking Press, 1961).
Clark Hoyt, “The Painful Images of War,” New York Times, August 3, 2008 →.
“Potʹomkina vyynyaly z Kateryny” (Potemkin was removed from Kateryna), Istorychna pravda, October 26, 2022 →; “‘Ne khochu zvidsy yikhaty.’ Sotsmerezhi zhartuyutʹ nad Rosiyeyu, yaka vyvezla z Khersona pam'yatnyky” (“I don’t want to leave here”: Social networks are joking about Russia, which removed monuments from Kherson”), BBC Ukraine, October 24, 2022 →.
Lorenzo Tondo and Artem Mazhulin, “Russians Accused of Burning Bodies at Kherson Landfill,” The Guardian, November 21, 2022 →.
L., “Women Reflected in Their Own History,” e-flux notes, October 14, 2022 →. Italics in original.
Iryna Shuvalova, “your own,” trans. Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk, Literary Hub, March 24, 2022 →.
e-flux journal, no. 10 (November 2009) →.
Between Past and Future, 152.
See Jarrod Hore, “How Landscape Photographers Reinvented the Colonial Project in Australia,” Peta Pixel, November 20, 2021 →.
See →.
“How Landscape Photographers.”
Shannon Mattern, “Tree Thinking,” Places Journal, September 2021 →.
“Tree Thinking.”
Last year, a Ukrainian volunteer fund that helps the military acquire equipment announced a nationwide fundraising drive to buy three special Turkish drones. However, when the Turkish company that manufactures them heard about the remarkable enthusiasm of ordinary Ukrainians to support their military, the company donated the drones. The money that had already been raised was used to purchase a satellite, the data from which will help the Ukrainian military see the location of Russian troops and deliver accurate strikes. Daryna Antoniuk, “Ukrainian Charity Buys Satellite for the Army. How Will It Help Fight Against Russia?” Kyiv Independent, August 27, 2022 →.
Nathan K. Hensley, “Drone Form: Word and Image at the End of Empire,” e-flux journal no. 72 (April 2016) →.
Teju Cole, “When the Camera Was a Weapon of Imperialism. (And When It Still Is.),” New York Times, February 6, 2019 →.
University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, October 31, 2022.
These words written on the wall of a Russian prison by a captive Ukrainian solider are quoted in this YouTube video →.
D. Kasianova, “Do vesilʹnoyi fotohrafiyi my ne povernemosya”: Yak podruzhzhya Liberovykh pochalo znimaty viynu (“We will not return to wedding photography”: How the Liberov couple began filming the war), Bird in Flight, January 19, 2023 →.
David Miliband, “It’s Time to End the Age of Impunity,” Foreign Policy, June 3, 2022 →.
Meredith Deliso, “Has the War in Ukraine Reached a Turning Point?” ABC News, September 19, 2022 →.
“What Happened on Day 85 of the War in Ukraine,” New York Times, May 19, 2022 →.
Hein Goemans, “When Will the War in Ukraine End? And How?” University of Rochester website, October 5, 2022 →.
Zack Beauchamp, “Why the First Few Days of War in Ukraine Went Badly for Russia,” Vox, February 28, 2022 →.
Juliana Hayda et al., “6 Key Numbers that Reveal the Staggering Impact of Russia’s War in Ukraine,” NPR, August 24, 2022 →.
“Ukraine Will Push to Reclaim More Territory Through Winter, US Defense Chief Says,” New York Times, October 12, 2022 →.
Kazi Stastna, “The Smartphone War: Soldiers, Civilians and Satellites Give the World a Window onto Russian Invasion,” CBC News, April 6, 2022 →.