Svet snova i katastrofa
Dreamworld and Catastrophe

The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West

Author(s): Susan Buck-Morss
Contributor(s): Aleksandra Kostić (Translator)
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Political Philosophy, Recent History (1900 till today), Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Beogradski krug
Keywords: Russia; socialism; war; sovereignty; violence; terror; Stalin; Modernity; imperialism; historical progress; political imaginery; NKVD; nature; Lenin; Industrial production; French Revolution; enemy; dreamworld; cinema; Bolshevism; avant-garde
Summary/Abstract: »The Construction of mass utopia was the dream of the twentieth century. It was the driving ideological force of industrial modernization in both its capitalist and socialist forms. The dream was itself an immense material power that transformed the natural world, investing industrially produced objects and built environments with collective, political desire.« (From the Preface)

• Details
• Contents