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Date created
2023-09-28
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Interviewer: Johal, Am
Interviewee: Matviyenko, Svitlana
Abstract
Dr. Svitlana Matviyenko, SFU Assistant Professor of Critical Media Analysis, explores recursive colonial operations in Ukrainian Polissia.
The production of the Chornobyl Zone of Exclusion preceded the Chornobyl catastrophe by two decades. The lecture will discuss the consistency of recursive colonial operations in Ukrainian Polissia from its industrial subsumption by the Soviet cold-war infrastructure, including the ballistic rocket detection radar Duga-1 and the Chornobyl NPP, until the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation in 2022.
This talk will be followed by a Q&A discussion moderated by Am Johal, and is presented by SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement, with support from SFU’s School of Communication, SFU’s Institute for the Humanities, and SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts.
The production of the Chornobyl Zone of Exclusion preceded the Chornobyl catastrophe by two decades. The lecture will discuss the consistency of recursive colonial operations in Ukrainian Polissia from its industrial subsumption by the Soviet cold-war infrastructure, including the ballistic rocket detection radar Duga-1 and the Chornobyl NPP, until the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation in 2022.
This talk will be followed by a Q&A discussion moderated by Am Johal, and is presented by SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement, with support from SFU’s School of Communication, SFU’s Institute for the Humanities, and SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts.
Description
Svitlana Matviyenko is an Assistant Professor of Critical Media Analysis in the School of Communication. Her research and teaching are focused on information and cyberwar; political economy of information; media and environment; infrastructure studies; STS.
She writes about practices of resistance and mobilization; digital militarism, dis- and misinformation; Internet history; cybernetics; psychoanalysis; posthumanism; the Soviet and the post-Soviet techno-politics; nuclear cultures, including the Chernobyl Zone of Exclusion. She is a co-editor of two collections, The Imaginary App (MIT Press, 2014) and Lacan and the Posthuman (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). She is a co-author of Cyberwar and Revolution: Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism (Minnesota UP, 2019), a winner of the 2019 book award of the Science Technology and Art in International Relations (STAIR) section of the International Studies Association and of the Canadian Communication Association 2020 Gertrude J. Robinson book prize.
She writes about practices of resistance and mobilization; digital militarism, dis- and misinformation; Internet history; cybernetics; psychoanalysis; posthumanism; the Soviet and the post-Soviet techno-politics; nuclear cultures, including the Chernobyl Zone of Exclusion. She is a co-editor of two collections, The Imaginary App (MIT Press, 2014) and Lacan and the Posthuman (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). She is a co-author of Cyberwar and Revolution: Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism (Minnesota UP, 2019), a winner of the 2019 book award of the Science Technology and Art in International Relations (STAIR) section of the International Studies Association and of the Canadian Communication Association 2020 Gertrude J. Robinson book prize.
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