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Foreword. Interrupted Memories, Transitory Identities: Urban Culture in Belgrade
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents iii
- Editor’s Note v
- Foreword. Interrupted Memories, Transitory Identities: Urban Culture in Belgrade 1
- Author’s Summary 11
- Addendum for the English edition 17
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1. New Forms Of Sacrilege
- The Icon: Between The World And God 19
- Differentiating Icon from Idol 23
- Profane Icons: A Socialist Innovation 25
- The Icon in Serbia’s Post-Socialist “Popular Awakening” 32
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2. Pathopolis
- Introduction 43
- Money as an Image of the State 44
- Belgrade as a Patchwork City 63
- Urban Downfall in the Shadow of War 73
- The City as a Forum 79
- “Targeting” in the Urban Environment 94
- We Won (1): Medals as Reflections of an Incoherent Ideology 96
- New Houses for New People 105
- Celebrity Charlatans 111
- Interlude: How the Past Travels 113
- Požeška Street as a Manifesto of “Anti-bureaucratic” Architecture 115
- The Way Something Is Written Is as Important as the Content— Maybe Even More. 119
- Interlude: The Fine Art of Image Destruction (Iconoclasm Revisited) 130
- Elections in the Urban Landscape 132
- Megalomaniacs 144
- We Won (2): The Eternity Which Lasted a Few Months 156
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3. Necropolis
- Princes, Living and Dead 161
- Rulers’ Graves 170
- Subjects’ Graves 174
- “Hush Thou Night... ” 189
- Millennium Bug in the Graveyard 205
- Millennium Bug in Republic Square 207
- Biographies 209
- Index 211
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents iii
- Editor’s Note v
- Foreword. Interrupted Memories, Transitory Identities: Urban Culture in Belgrade 1
- Author’s Summary 11
- Addendum for the English edition 17
-
1. New Forms Of Sacrilege
- The Icon: Between The World And God 19
- Differentiating Icon from Idol 23
- Profane Icons: A Socialist Innovation 25
- The Icon in Serbia’s Post-Socialist “Popular Awakening” 32
-
2. Pathopolis
- Introduction 43
- Money as an Image of the State 44
- Belgrade as a Patchwork City 63
- Urban Downfall in the Shadow of War 73
- The City as a Forum 79
- “Targeting” in the Urban Environment 94
- We Won (1): Medals as Reflections of an Incoherent Ideology 96
- New Houses for New People 105
- Celebrity Charlatans 111
- Interlude: How the Past Travels 113
- Požeška Street as a Manifesto of “Anti-bureaucratic” Architecture 115
- The Way Something Is Written Is as Important as the Content— Maybe Even More. 119
- Interlude: The Fine Art of Image Destruction (Iconoclasm Revisited) 130
- Elections in the Urban Landscape 132
- Megalomaniacs 144
- We Won (2): The Eternity Which Lasted a Few Months 156
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3. Necropolis
- Princes, Living and Dead 161
- Rulers’ Graves 170
- Subjects’ Graves 174
- “Hush Thou Night... ” 189
- Millennium Bug in the Graveyard 205
- Millennium Bug in Republic Square 207
- Biographies 209
- Index 211