Post communist aesthetics: revolutions, capitalism, violence

1. Introduction : 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.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: what/why/how post-communist aesthetics? -- What is post-communist aesthetics? -- Why post-communist 'aesthetics'? -- How does one 'do' post-communist aesthetics? -- Where does this sit within the broader literature on world politics, popular culture, and the 'aesthetic' turn? -- Note -- Bibliography -- 2. Restaging the 1989 revolution: television, film, and public spaces -- Introduction -- The contested spaces of the 'first televised revolution': the screen versus the street -- Walter Benjamin and the 1989 revolution (I know, he died long before, but please indulge) -- The 1989 revolution and the technology of film -- The revolution between the 'exceptional' and the 'everyday' -- Re-staging the 1989 revolution III: memory, theatre, monuments -- Conclusion -- Note -- Bibliography -- 3. Erasing communism: industrial and human ruins of post-communist Europe -- Neither here nor there: post-industrialism and the disappearance of the 'worker' -- A journey through the wasteland of communism -- StartUp Petrila -- Post-Industrial Stories -- Photographing the Vitkovice Ironworks -- Of Snails and Men: a tragi-comedy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4. Building capitalism: consuming desires and the architectures that sustain them -- Consuming desires: from shortages to overwhelming consumption -- Architectures of consumption I: the seeming 'fragility' of garage architecture -- Architectures of consumption II: the seeming 'permanence' of shopping malls and hypermarkets -- Architectures of consumption III: the emergence of gated communities and the transformation of public space -- Bringing the nineteenth-century flâneur into the twenty-first century.