The Svetlana Boym Reader by Svetlana Boym,Cristina Vatulescu,Tamar Abramov,Nicole G. Burgoyne,Julia Chadaga,Jacob Emery,Julia Vaingurt -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half-Title Title Contents List of Plates List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Luminosities: An Introduction PART ONE THE THEATER OF THE SELF (1984–91)

The Final Journey of The Egyptian Stamp

3 The Death of the Revolutionary Poet: Vladimir Mayakovsky and Suicide as Literary Fact

4 Marina Tsvetaeva and the Cultural Mask of the Poetess 5 Public Personas and Private Selves of Cultural Critics

PART TWO LIVING IN COMMON PLACES AND RETHINKING WHAT MATTERS (1992–95)

6 The Poetics of Banality: Tat’iana Tolstaia, Lana Gogoberidze, and Larisa Zvezdochetova 7 Common Places

Theoretical Common Places Archaeology of the Common Place: From Topos to Kitsch Living in Common Places Family Romance and Communal Utopia From the House-Commune to the Communal Apartment Welcome to the Communal Apartment Communal Neighbors: Oral History and Class Struggles Psychopathology of Soviet Everyday Life Interior Decoration Ode to the Commode Poverty of Sociology and the Aesthetics of Survival The End of the Communal Apartment A Homecoming, 1991

8 Paradoxes of Unified Culture: From Stalin’s Fairy-Tale to Molotov’s Lacquer-Box

“Lacquering Reality”: Molotov’s Lacquer Box

PART THREE THAT HISTORICAL EMOTION (1996–2001)

10 The Future of Nostalgia

From Cured Soldiers to Incurable Romantics Restorative Nostalgia: Conspiracies and Return to Origins The Sistine Chapel: Restoration of the Sacred Reflective Nostalgia: Virtual Reality and Collective Memory Bar Nostalgija: Reflections on Everyday Memories Vladimir Nabokov’s False Passport Nostalgia, Kitsch and Death Exile by Choice Nostalgia and Global Culture The Last Homecoming

Danilo Kiš and the Ethics of Estrangement

12 Kosmos

PART FOUR FREEDOM, SUBJECTIVITY, AND THE GULAG (2002–10)

Ethics of Intonation and Human Error Hannah Arendt: The Banality of Evil and the Art of Judgment Rationing Clichés, Documenting Terror Mimicry, Misprint, and Technologies of the Gulag

16 Freedom as Co-Creation

Adventure and the Borders of Freedom The Public World and the Architecture of Freedom Agnostic Space: Freedom versus Liberation Scenography of Freedom: Political Optics and Phantasmagoria Passionate Thinking, Judging, and Imagination

PART FIVE THE OFF-MODERN (2010–17)

17 The Off-Modern

History Out of Sync Cultural Exaptation Human Error Edgy Geography Black Mirrors On Off

18 Scenography of Friendship

“Oh”: On Tact, Taste, and the Anchovy Paste Tactfulness: Touching without Tampering Diasporic Intimacy: Playing with Daimons “Ach:” The Furrows of Friendship

19 Vernacular Cosmopolitanism: Victor Shklovsky and Osip Mandelshtam

20 Cryptoarchitecture: Corbusier at 50, A Tour with Svetlana Boym

So What is Cryptogamy? Experiment in Multitasking with Clouds Disclaimer Origins Ironic Use

PART SIX AFTERIMAGES: SVETLANA BOYM’S IRREPRESSIBLE CO-CREATIONS

21 Touching Writing (Homage to Jacques Derrida, October 8, 2004) 22 Immigrant Hydrants 23 Framing the Family Album 24 Nostalgic Technology: Notes for an Off-modern Manifesto

A Margin of Error Short Shadows, Endless Surfaces Errands, Transits A Critic, an Amateur

25 Cities in Transit 26 Phantom Limbs

Memories of the Charles River 2011-2013 Bereshit (Arameic: in the beginning.)

27 Remembering Forgetting: Tale of a Refugee Camp

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