Creating and Enforcing Moscow’s Aesthetic of War

Gregg, James

James Gregg

James Gregg is a doctoral candidate at the University of St Andrews studying social media, political performance, and memory in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. His dissertation “Developing Narratives and Visual Performances in Online Representations of Donbas Militarism examines how Russian-backed militias in Ukraine create politically mobilizing stories through social media photography and digital art connected to Russia’s strategy of hybrid war.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 7June 13, 2022<June 13, 2022

Creating and Enforcing Moscow’s Aesthetic of War

Contrasting sanitized representations of the war on buildings in central Moscow with accounts from Ukrainian media, James Gregg looks at the Putin regime’s attempts to control the narrative