Now Is Night

Oxana Timofeeva

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Crosses marked only with numbers stand on the graves of unknown Russian-backed separatists at a cemetery in the Eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, February 16, 2015. Photo: AFP

Issue #91
May 2018










Notes
1

George Bataille, “The Psychological Structure of Fascism,” in The Bataille Reader, eds. Fred Botting and Scott Wilson (Blackwell, 1997), 122–46.

2

See (in Russian).

3

See (in Russian).

4

See (in Russian).

5

Walter Benjamin, “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” in Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn (Shocken Books, 2007), 255.

6

Sigmund Freud, “Negation,” in On Metapsychology, The Pelican Freud Library, vol. 11 (Penguin Books, 1977), 437–38.

7

“ATO zone” (Anti-Terrorist Operation zone) was how Ukrainian officials and media referred to the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk after they came under the control of Russian-backed separatists.

8

Slavoj Žižek, The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Women and Causality (Verso, 1994), 2.

9

Žižek, Metastases of Enjoyment, 2.

10

See .

11

Mirnye zhiteli (мирные жители), from mirnye, meaning “peaceful” (civilian, nonmilitary), and zhitely, meaning “those who live” somewhere (people, population, inhabitants, residents).







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