Memes, imagery and performative warfare

 The lecture examines the issue of the performativity of warfare in Russia’s war against Ukraine. What is the role of symbolic and visual communication and memes in this process? How do different political imageries play out in this communication? Issues of performative, embodying political rhetoric as well as performance warfare and protest ritualism are discussed. This topic is addressed in the broader, epochal context of global crisis and intuitive politics.

Dr. Arvydas Grišinas is a political anthropologist, a researcher at the Kaunas University of Technology and a lecturer at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. He is the author of the book "Politics with a Human Face: Identity and Experience in Post-Soviet Europe". He is interested in political identity and imagination, liminality, and post-Soviet Europe. He is currently working on his second monograph, under the working title "Intuitive Politics: When the Enlightenment Dims".