Alexander Bikbov / Александр Бикбов

  Immediately after a partial relax of the lockdown Paris did not set itself to large street festivity. On May 11 streets were more saturated with people moving in between reopened shops than with those simply strolling, meeting and spontaneously chatting. The emancipatory shopping hasn’t stayed for the main expression of the rediscovered collectivity. Media […]

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The COVID-19 epidemic emptied city places, tinned public sites and readjusted sub-levels of urban routines. Have physical distancing and social isolation already established a new mode to live together that won’t cease after the lockdown is cancelled? That is a large research and political question that each society will strive to answer months and years […]

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April 18, 2020, at 6 p.m. (Moscow time) Young social scientists conference “Vectors” held in/outside the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences invites you to join an on-line discussion Political Action beyond Co-presence with Judith Butler, Keti Chukhrov and Alexander Bikbov, moderated by Grigory Yudin   The discussion which has as starting point a […]

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Speed, long distances, new places vanish from the lockdown life rhythm. Inventive cooperation fills in its relative scarcity with new and sometimes unexpected ways. In some closed yards musicians give evening concerts from the windows of their flats, in some neighbourhoods even house numbers compete with the odds in self-made quiz, some people just discuss […]

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One week after the announced stay-at-home measures, Paris downtown in the morning gives a perfect idea of a place it was several decades ago. Only a mild wind and a distant passerby make you company when you walk along with a certificate that you must fill-in by yourself each moment you leave home. Martian chronicles […]

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For more than six months, since November 2018, French police has been anticipating street actions of Yellow vests with shockingly disproportionate pressure. Harshly attacked with teargas and truncheons, wounded with flash-balls, simply provoked and humiliated persons bringing yellow vests do not “pay” their unacceptable conduct. They often receive a violent treatment before and beside any […]

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