Svitlana Matviyenko
Svitlana
Matviyenko
BIO
Svitlana is an Associate Professor of Critical Media Analysis in the School of Communication and Associate Director of the Digital Democracies Institute. Her research and teaching, informed by science & technology studies and history of science, are focused on information and cyberwar, media and environment, critical infrastructure studies and postcolonial theory. Svitlana's current work on nuclear cultures and heritage investigates the practices of nuclear terror, weaponization of pollution and technogenic catastrophes during the Russian war in Ukraine.
At the Digital Democracies Institute, Svitlana leads Cyberwar Topologies and Media, Infrastructure, Environment research streams. She serves on the Advisory Board of Critical Infrastructure Lab (University of Amsterdam).
At THE NEW INSTITUTE, Svitlana will be involved in the program Bitter Victory: Is Victory Possible in the 21st Century? Svitlana will join us in the fall term of 2024.
PUBLICATIONS
Cyberwar and Revolution: Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism (with Nick Dyer-Witheford), 2019.
“Producing the Subject of Deportation: The Process of Filtration during the Russia-Ukraine War,” special issue “Wartime Sociology” (with Daria Getmanova), Sociologica: International Journal for Sociological Debate, Bortolini, M., Esposito, E., Squazzoni, F., and Stark, D. Vol. 16.4. 2022.
“Echo Chambers of Paranoid Knowledge: On Cyberwar Epistemology” (with Jaime Lee Kirtz), in: Discourse, 2022.
“Terror Environments.” Trans. Goll, Ph. Aus dem Nebel des Krieges: Die Gegenwart der Ukraine. Mishchenko, K. & Raabe, K., 2023.
"Pollution as a Weapon of War,” in: CLIMATE: The Right to Breathe / Caring for the Commons. H. Chu, M. Down, N. Mabaso, P. Martínez, G. L. Mendez, and C. Oprea, 2022.