1st Edition

Post-Communist Aesthetics Revolutions, capitalism, violence

By Anca Pusca Copyright 2016
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

160 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In this book, Anca Pusca seeks to extend the aesthetic and cultural turn in international relations to an analysis of post-communist transitions in Central and Eastern Europe. Building on the philosophy of Walter Benjamin and Jacques Ranciere, the work investigates how post-communist film, photography, theatre, art, museumization and architecture have creatively re-engaged with ideas of... Read more

1. What/Why/How Post Communist Aesthetics?  2. Restaging the 1989 Revolution: Television, Film and Public Spaces  3. Erasing Communism: Industrial and Human Ruins of Post Communist Europe  4. Building Capitalism: Consuming Desires and the Architectures that Sustain Them  5. The ‘Aesthetics of Violence’: Roma/Gypsies Visibility and the Re-Partitioning of the Sensible  6. The end of ‘Transitology’, the end of Post Communism, the end…

Biography

Anca M. Pusca's current research seeks to re-conceptualize the aesthetics of change within the context of today’s EU and its candidate states, by tracing spatial, architectural and visual representations and responses to EU’s most important policies: from immigration, monetary and the common agricultural policy to constitutional reform. She lecturers at Goldsmiths, University of London.