Beginnings and Ends of Russian Colonialism
With Anna Engelhardt
Goldsmiths, University of London
May, 2023
As the dead of one war haunt the dead of another, we ask the question: how to amplify the obsolescence of colonial regimes? This dialogue focuses on the temporalities of Russian colonialism to untangle its ends. Colonialism twists and swirls in multiple directions rather than moving forward in time. Leaving residues in bodies and lands, the long-term violence of Russian settler colonialism stays in the soil, water and bodies. Exercised through monstrous logistical infrastructures, occasionally malfunctioning weapons, proxy militaries and cyberwar tactics, Russian colonial wars span across generations and subject their targets to recursive cycles of fear and violence.
Settler Colonialism, Visual Culture, Infrastructures