Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Plates -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Luminosities: An Introduction -- Notes -- Part One: The Theater of the Self (1984-91) -- Chapter 1: Dialogue as âLyrical Hermaphroditismâ: Mandelâshtamâs Challenge to Bakhtin -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Petersburg Influenza: Notes on The Egyptian Stamp by Osip Mandelâshtam: An Excerpt from a Seminar Paper for Comparative Literature 206 (Prof. Donald Fanger, 1984) -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The Death of the Revolutionary Poet: Vladimir Mayakovsky and Suicide as Literary Fact -- The Theater of the Self: Myth,Fashion, and Writing -- âRevolutionary Poetâ: History, Myth, and the Theater of Cruelty -- A Portrait of the Artist in a Yellow Blouse: Metaphor and Transgression -- Suicide as a Literary Fact: âVladimir Mayakovskyâ by Roman Jakobson -- Poetics of Mistranslation: âVladimir Mayakovksyâ by André Breton -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Marina Tsvetaeva and the Cultural Mask of the Poetess -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Public Personas and Private Selves of Cultural Critics -- Notes -- Part Two: Living in Common Places and Rethinking What Matters (1992-95) -- Chapter 6: The Poetics of Banality: Tatâiana Tolstaia, Lana Gogoberidze, and Larisa Zvezdochetova -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: Common Places -- Theoretical Common Places -- Archaeology of the Common Place: From Topos to Kitsch -- Living in Common Places -- Poverty of Sociology and the Aesthetics of Survival -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Paradoxes of Unified Culture: From Stalinâs Fairy-Tale to Molotovâs Lacquer-Box -- Notes -- Part Three: That Historical Emotion (1996-2001) -- Chapter 9: On Diasporic Intimacy: Ilya Kabakovâs Installations and Immigrant Homes -- Intimate Art: Ilya Kabakovâs Toilets and the Palace of the Future -- Notes -- Chapter 10: The Future of Nostalgia From Cured Soldiers to IncurableRomantics -- Restorative Nostalgia: Conspiracies and Return to Origins -- Reflective Nostalgia: Virtual Reality and Collective Memory -- Vladimir Nabokovâs False Passport -- Nostalgia, Kitsch and Death -- Nostalgia and Global Culture -- The Last Homecoming -- Notes -- Chapter 11: Conspiracy Theories and Literary Ethics: Umberto Eco, Danilo Kis and The Protocols of Zion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 12: Kosmos -- Notes -- Part Four: Freedom, Subjectivity, and the Gulag (2002-10) -- Chapter 13: My Grandmotherâs First Love -- Chapter 14: How Soviet Subjectivity is made (Kak sdelana âsovetskaia subâektivnostâ) -- Notes -- Chapter 15: âBanality of Evil,â Mimicry, and the Soviet Subject: Varlam Shalamov and Hannah Arendt -- Ethics of Intonation and Human Error -- Hannah Arendt: The Banality of Evil and the Art of Judgment -- Rationing Clichés, Documenting Terror -- Mimicry, Misprint, and Technologies of the Gulag -- Notes -- Chapter 16: Freedom as Co-Creation -- Adventure and the Bordersof Freedom -- The Public World and the Architecture of Freedom -- Agnostic Space: Freedom versus Liberation -- Scenography of Freedom: Political Optics and Phantasmagoria -- Passionate Thinking, Judging, and Imagination -- Notes -- Part Five: The Off-Modern (2010-17) -- Chapter 17: The Off-Modern -- History Out of Sync -- Cultural Exaptation -- Human Error -- Edgy Geography -- Black Mirrors -- On Off -- Notes -- Chapter 18: Scenography of Friendship -- âOhâ: On Tact, Taste, and the Anchovy Paste -- Tactfulness: Touching without Tampering -- Diasporic Intimacy: Playing with Daimons -- âAch:â The Furrows of Friendship -- Notes -- Chapter 19: Vernacular Cosmopolitanism: Victor Shklovsky and Osip Mandelshtam -- Modernist Humanism as a Double Estrangement Vernacular Cosmopolitanism and Critique of Revolutionary Violence -- Osip Mandelshtam: Co-creation with Fear and The Ends of Theory -- Nostalgia for World Culture and the Storm of History -- Notes -- Chapter 20: Cryptoarchitecture: Corbusier at 50, A Tour with Svetlana Boym -- So What is Cryptogamy? -- Notes -- Part Six: Afterimages: Svetlana Boym's Irrepressible Co-Creations -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 21: Touching Writing (Homage to Jacques Derrida, October 8, 2004) -- Chapter 22: Immigrant Hydrants -- Chapter 23: Framing the Family Album -- Chapter 24: Nostalgic Technology: Notes for an Off-modern Manifesto -- A Margin of Error -- Short Shadows, Endless Surfaces -- Errands, Transits -- A Critic, an Amateur -- Chapter 25: Cities in Transit -- Chapter 26: Phantom Limbs -- Memories of the Charles River 2011-2013 -- Chapter 27: Remembering Forgetting: Tale of a Refugee Camp -- Sources -- I. The Theater of The Self (1984-1991) -- II. Living in Common Places and Rethinking What Matters (1992-1995) -- III. That Historical Emotion (1996-2001) -- IV. Freedom, Subjectivity, and the Gulag (2002-2010) -- V. The Off-Modern (2010-2017) -- VI. Afterimages: Svetlana Boymâs Irrepressible Co-creations -- Bibliography -- Index -- Plates
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