Oral (Tema Livre)
745-1 | Resistance in Postcommunism. A Case for the Renewal of Critical Theory | Autores: | Ovidiu Tichindeleanu (IDEA - Idea arts + society) |
Resumo Resistance in Postcommunism
The social and cultural history of the "postcommunist transition" has been marked throughout the region of Eastern Europe by the return of two dominant phenomena of global modernity: capitalism and coloniality. The fall of the Iron Curtain meant to a significant degree the re-absorption of the socialist bloc into larger and long-durée structures of world history. I will present on certain modes of resistance in the everyday life of transition that stemmed from this unique combination of socialist past and capitalist present, making the argument for a renewal of critical theory at the intersection of epistemic materialism and decolonial theory.
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