Communist Ghosts: Post-Communist Thresholds, Critical Aesthetics and the Undoing of Modern Europe (Studies in the Psychosocial)

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