Lera Malchenko

Within Occupational Formations Lera Malchenko and Nazar Golianych collected and structured open-source data on the organizers and executors of construction projects in Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories. Based on this body of material, the Evidence-Based Notes (EBN) format was proposed as a way to register the unfolding machinery of occupation through a field-based research approach. The resulting table outlines the high-level architecture of the occupation building apparatus, showing how contractors continually recombine and reorganize through nominal legal entities, shifting directors, and rebranded branches of Russian firms seeking to conceal their involvement and evade sanctions.

Within Occupational Formations, Lera Malchenko @temporary__name__ examines how Russia’s digital occupation infrastructure in Ukraine turns violence into a routinized technical workflow. Building on the case first introduced in the @fantasticlittlesplash essay «Being on EI», she extends her inquiry into the actors and structures that sustain these occupational systems. Revisiting Bauman and Arendt, she reframes the bureaucracy of violence through the lens of contemporary IT development approaches, showing how mass violence can be organized as an ordinary labor process enabled by agile workflows, distributed responsibility, and technical abstraction. _\|~_ Lera Malchenko is a journalist, analyst, and interdisciplinary artist specializing in media and investigative research. She works as a senior analyst and forward deployed engineer at Osavul, tracking FIMI campaigns. Her research interests center on digital and emotional infrastructures, as well as communicative militarism. As a co-founder of the ‘fantastic little splash’ group, she explores collective imagination and emotional appropriation within technosocial systems.

[Once in P.] It was a good day. We went to the secret L. place in P. He was sitting outside as usual, unhappy cause he was spotted by paparazzi. It was the place from his filmed dream with M. I was glad to visit it. It was simple and beautiful. And coffee was appropriate, which is rare in P.

[ URBAN FOREST ] │ ───────────────┼─────────────── │ [ YOU ] — reading / writing │ texts 🍂 │ overloaded circuits │ bowl of edible petals │ [ SEPTEMBER ] fading light / fragrant syntax