Oxana Timofeeva
The Wolf Hunt

In a wolf hunt, hunters string red flags along the forest edges to funnel the pack toward the guns; the wolves flee the from flags, and that flight is the hunt itself. Oxana Timofeeva turns this hunting practice into a sociopolitical metaphor. From the endless emergencies of the war on terror to the current invocations of civilizational threat, from the mediated hysterics of the culture wars to the daily quota of new outrage, contemporary politics runs on a steady manufacture of red flags. What if the alarm is not the warning but the trap—and moral panics not reflections of existing danger but the mechanism by which populations are delivered into it?

Oxana Timofeeva is a philosopher and member of the artist collective Chto Delat. Her latest publications include How to Love a Homeland (Kayfa ta, 2020), Solar Politics (Polity, 2022), and Freud’s Beasty Boys: Sex, Violence and Masculinity (Polity, 2025).