Text contribution
Institute of Network Cultures
The thesis investigates repeated acts of resistance carried out through the underground partisan press in Lithuania, examining the media ecosystem – infrastructure, people, networks, and terrain – that enabled it. It traces how the forest functioned first as a tool and later as evidence of resistance. The text was published as part of the Tactical Media Reader from the Institute of Network Cultures in 2026.
“...I came across a repeating gesture of carrying, smuggling, bootlegging information back into the Lithuanian community in order to sustain it. Not as a ritual or a cultural tradition, but as a practice of media production; an act of publishing and making something public, which puts specific emphasis on the materialities and processes of information transportation and distribution, rather than the content and its consumption. <...> To understand the urge to publish as a way to resist and what it means to today, I frame these case studies through information warfare and media ecologies.”