Podcast | Demon of the Moon (Ep 2): Over the Longue Durée

Some of you will remember what I’m doing. I’m deducing, from transcripts, from millions of words of Volya Radio transcripts, what I call the principles of Infolklore.

I have re-recorded this podcast, due to audio issues with the original recording of 16 September. I’ve posted it as two parts. This is the second part. The first part is here.

Continued from:

Infolklore, I remind you, is not just the opposite of Disinfolklore. It’s a positive creative practice. I try to practise it. Most of us probably listen on Volya Radio to Will or Mockers every day. They’re the very epitome of Infolklorists, from my perspective.

So the law that we honour on Volya Radio is basically the same since the beginning, since SBU Crime and Punishment. Then it was taken on by other segments on Volya Radio. On the 16th of January 2025, for instance:

“In any case, there’s no legitimate target on Russia’s part. Nothing that Russia hits is legitimate because the war itself is a crime. It’s a crime of aggression.”

So the war is a crime. This is true. It is the crime the UN Charter was written to forbid. The law of armed conflict binds both sides. The law of armed conflict. The post-World War II legal order. The Geneva Conventions. Regardless of who started the war. This is the whole reason the laws of war exist. A rule that only bound the innocent side would bind nobody.

So a russian shell that lands on a Ukrainian artillery position is a lawful act inside an all-unlawful war. But a russian artillery shell that lands on a Ukrainian school is not. It is an unlawful act in an unlawful war. The sentence I read you says it cannot be.

Principles of Infolklore - Series so far:

Ep 1 - Aug 20

Ep 2 - Aug 27

Ep 3 - 3 Sept