Edvardas Sumila
@edvardassumila.bsky.social
Edvardas is a scholar/writer/curator w/ interests in art, philosophy, critical theory, NYC/Vilnius
What is at stake is more than just a ministry -- it's whether culture becomes a tool for dismantling or a vehicle for resistance. The parallels with Slovakia and Georgia are clear -- and the warning signs are urgent. #kulturosprotestas
It May Be the Last Time: Lithuanian Art and Culture Resisting a Takeover at the Height of Hybrid Warfare - Notes - e-flux
Edvardas Šumila on recent protests in Lithuania.
www.e-flux.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:36 AM
What is at stake is more than just a ministry -- it's whether culture becomes a tool for dismantling or a vehicle for resistance. The parallels with Slovakia and Georgia are clear -- and the warning signs are urgent. #kulturosprotestas
Dear friends and allies abroad,
I hope this sheds some light on the current state of Lithuanian politics and the cultural workers who have united to resist the transfer of the Ministry of Culture to the populist Nemuno Aušra party.
echogonewrong.com/the-cultural...
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#kulturosprotestas
I hope this sheds some light on the current state of Lithuanian politics and the cultural workers who have united to resist the transfer of the Ministry of Culture to the populist Nemuno Aušra party.
echogonewrong.com/the-cultural...
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#kulturosprotestas
The Cultural Community’s Protest. Conversation with Arūnas Gelūnas and Gintautė Žemaitytė - Echo Gone Wrong
While awaiting the warning strike and in response to recent political developments in Lithuania, philosopher and contemporary art curator Edvardas Šumila met with members of the initiating group of th...
echogonewrong.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Dear friends and allies abroad,
I hope this sheds some light on the current state of Lithuanian politics and the cultural workers who have united to resist the transfer of the Ministry of Culture to the populist Nemuno Aušra party.
echogonewrong.com/the-cultural...
.
.
#kulturosprotestas
I hope this sheds some light on the current state of Lithuanian politics and the cultural workers who have united to resist the transfer of the Ministry of Culture to the populist Nemuno Aušra party.
echogonewrong.com/the-cultural...
.
.
#kulturosprotestas
Even if "the whole is the false", as Adorno's famous phrase (in fact Hegel's inversion) says, we are very much emtangled -- through the milieu, it seems possible to speak somehow, if only seemingly, through the negative that has come to define everything.
March 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Even if "the whole is the false", as Adorno's famous phrase (in fact Hegel's inversion) says, we are very much emtangled -- through the milieu, it seems possible to speak somehow, if only seemingly, through the negative that has come to define everything.
Back to teaching again, Media arts, love the auditorium.
February 12, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Back to teaching again, Media arts, love the auditorium.
Reposted by Edvardas Sumila
The russians are destroying Ukrainian textbooks but leaving monuments to Lesya Ukrainka and Taras Shevchenko—because later, they’ll label them as russian. A thought from #MykolaRiabchuk 's lecture. #russiancolonization
February 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The russians are destroying Ukrainian textbooks but leaving monuments to Lesya Ukrainka and Taras Shevchenko—because later, they’ll label them as russian. A thought from #MykolaRiabchuk 's lecture. #russiancolonization
Had a nice time @ radio vilnius-- talking about visual art criticism awards. Listen to me from 1.14.00
Weekly favs w/ Eglė, Kotryna & Edvardas Šumila - Radio Vilnius
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radiovilnius.live
February 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Had a nice time @ radio vilnius-- talking about visual art criticism awards. Listen to me from 1.14.00
Reposted by Edvardas Sumila
Tarp politikos bernaičių vėl populiarėja nuo Brazausko laikų kiek pridususi mada stumti bereikalingos ir gamtai žalingalos monumentaliosios infrastruktūros idėjas. Benkunskas Nerį nori asfaltuot, Neringos meras - Kuršių marias
February 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Tarp politikos bernaičių vėl populiarėja nuo Brazausko laikų kiek pridususi mada stumti bereikalingos ir gamtai žalingalos monumentaliosios infrastruktūros idėjas. Benkunskas Nerį nori asfaltuot, Neringos meras - Kuršių marias
Let this be my first post here; though I wish I could stay within the personal— the call to not get overwhelmed and also to find our passion against what this onslaught of exhiliration brought about is ever important.
Trump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed | Judith Butler
Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Let this be my first post here; though I wish I could stay within the personal— the call to not get overwhelmed and also to find our passion against what this onslaught of exhiliration brought about is ever important.