Communist ghosts : post-communist thresholds, critical aesthetics and the undoing of modern Europe / Magda Schmukalla.
Schmukalla, Magda.
2021
D2003 .S34 2021
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Title Communist ghosts : post-communist thresholds, critical aesthetics and the undoing of modern Europe / Magda Schmukalla.
Author Schmukalla, Magda.
ISBN 9783030837303 (electronic bk.)
3030837300 (electronic bk.)
3030837297
9783030837297
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83730-3
Imprint Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-83730-3 doi
Call Number D2003 .S34 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 335.094
Summary This book explores post-communist thresholds as materializations of a specific crisis of modern European identity that was caused by the existence and sudden breakdown of Soviet-type communism. It shows how post-communist thresholds emerge where relics from the communist experience continue disrupting the routines and rhythms of a modern life and confront Europeans with cultural experiences, affects and material realities of the enlightened world which they usually seek to repress or ignore. In exploring and writing through art projects which engage with the psychosocial fabric of such post-communist thresholds, this book finds ways of speaking and thinking through these transitory and paradox sites, and asks what we can say about other or new worlds, about new beginnings and endings as well as about decolonial and ethical ways of relating to the other when assessing the status quo of European modernity from within its liminal and crisis-driven sphere. Magda Schmukalla is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her work advances a decolonial, feminist and artistic study of social life. She has been awarded an ESRC post-doctoral research grant and is co-initiator of the Communist Hauntings project.
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Series Studies in the psychosocial.
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Chapter 1: Prologue
Trying to speak from a place that never was
Chapter 2: Introduction: Post-communist Thresholds
Chapter 3: Artistic Ruptures
Chapter 4: Unthought Places
Chapter 5: Uncanny Encounters
Chapter 6: Missed Awakenings
Chapter 7: Conclusion
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