Kyle Harrison
research-paper

A Barbarian in the Greenroom: Politics and Aesthetics in the Age of Surkov

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TL;DR — A zine-format essay on Vladislav Surkov, the political technologist who ran Russian politics as theatre.

A 24-page zine-format essay, laid out as a sequence of captioned screens.

The subject is Vladislav Surkov — the Kremlin aide who treated politics as a staged production, funding opposing movements simultaneously so that the only stable fact was that someone was directing. The essay’s argument is aesthetic rather than geopolitical: what it means when governance adopts the methods of installation art.

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24 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.