'Political technology' is a Russian term for the professional engineering of politics. It has turned Russian politics into theatre and propaganda – and now transformed the country into spectacle of blood, circuses, fear, and hatred. But once developed, these techniques for mass manipulation, that build parallel universes of alternative political reality, can be shared by authoritarian regimes. Political technology is being used to dismantle democracy in countries such as Hungary and is now about much more than online disinformation: it is about whole new industries of political engineering. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- Andrew Wilson is Professor of Ukrainian Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Andrew’s area of expertise is the comparative politics of democratisation in the post-Soviet states and political technology. He is a Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He is author of a remarkable series of books, and the most recent of these will form the basis of our discussion today: “Political Technology: The Globalisation of Political Manipulation (2023)”. ---------- LINKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wilson_(historian) https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-wilson-88b48720/ https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/people/andrew-wilson https://www.coleurope.eu/andrew-wilson https://rusi.org/people/wilson ---------- BOOKS MENTIONED: Political Technology: The Globalisation of Political Manipulation (2023) The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation (2015) Ukraine Crisis: What It Means for the West (2014) Ukraine’s Orange Revolution (2014) Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship (2011) Virtual Politics – Faking Democracy in the Post–Soviet World (2005) Ukrainian Nationalism in the 1990s: A Minority Faith (1996) ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
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