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A Node Is Placed at a Site of State Power

The KARAGODIN^® Investigation establishes a mesh node in Tomsk — giving form to presence — KARAGODIN.ORG (KGNg)

There are places designed to remain closed — structures that do not refuse access outright, but absorb it, delay it, return it unchanged.

In Tomsk, in the interior of Siberia, such a place holds the records of executions, preserved and withheld at once — long enough to appear settled, beyond disturbance. It is meant to remain that way.

And yet, something shifts — not inside the archive, but in how it can be approached. The attempt to gain access takes another form, and in doing so, alters the conditions that were meant to contain it. What follows begins where entry ceases to be possible.

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The Principle of Non-Degradation: How to Live Online in Contemporary Russia

To access the internet, you have to access the internet.

Over the past several months, I have found myself in an increasingly normalized and familiar position: attempting to use the internet while physically located inside the Russian Federation.

What might once have sounded like a trivial inconvenience has gradually revealed itself as something far more structural. Access is no longer simply a matter of connectivity. It is a matter of structure, jurisdiction, and — perhaps most critically — of constraint.

Prohibiting What Has Already Become Part of the State

A history that exists, but is increasingly out of reach.

An analytical essay on legal reclassification, archival access, and the transformation of historical knowledge under conditions of institutional restriction.