Communist ghosts : post-communist thresholds, critical aesthetics and the undoing of modern Europe / / Magda Schmukalla

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910506378103321
• Autore: Schmukalla Magda
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021]; ©2021
• ISBN: 3-030-83730-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (247 pages)
• Collana: Studies in the Psychosocial
• Disciplina: 341.24220947
• Soggetti: Post-communism - Europe - History; Communism - Social aspects - Europe - History; Postcomunisme; Estètica; Civilització moderna; Modernitat; Llibres electrònics; Europa
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- About the Book -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- 1: Prologue: Trying to Speak from a Place that Never Was … -- 2: Introduction: Post-communist Thresholds -- The Crisis of Western Critical Theory -- Western Hegemony and Eastern Europe -- Post-communist Thresholds and the Crisis of Modern Europe -- Art and Critical Aesthetics -- Transdisciplinarity -- Psychosocial Explorations -- Communist Ghosts -- A Vulnerable Text -- References -- 3: Artistic Ruptures -- Two Spotlights on 'New Art' -- Westerners and the Lack of Mimesis -- Other Ways of Knowing -- Art's Autonomy -- Art's Knowledge and Speech -- Artistic Theory -- Contemporary Art -- Returning to Adorno -- In the Spotlight - Art and Artistic Theory Today (Benjamin/Adorno) -- References -- 4: Unthought Places -- The Materiality of Post-Communist Thresholds -- … And Europe Will Be Stunned -- Europe and the Destruction of Jewish Spaces -- Reverse Utopia -- Oxygenator -- Gestures of Care in Broken Sites -- The ; Ephemeral Character of Post-Communist Thresholds -- References -- 5: Uncanny Encounters -- Failing in Berlin -- 7th Berlin Biennial and Curatorial Art -- Populist Subjectivity and the Avant-Garde Artist: Political Experiences Return -- Freud's Uncanny and the 'Other' Europe -- Born in Berlin -- Giving Birth to Rebellious Words and Defiant Beginnings -- The Unruliness of 'Failures' -- References -- 6: Missed Awakenings -- Die Traumdeutung 75,32m AMSL - A Public Dream -- The Artist's Communist Experience -- 'Let the dream go on' … 'or I shall have to wake up': Freud and Lacan on Awakenings -- Deferred Awakenings and Personal Ruptures -- Jewish Beginnings and the Desire for Freedom - Ein Denkbild. -- References -- 7: Conclusion: … About Storks and Other Migrating People -- A Decolonial Rearticulation of the Communist Spirit -- References -- Index.