Chapters in this book

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