What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire by Madina Tlostanova soviet society "Reading Platonov

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What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire by Madina Tlostanova soviet society "Reading PlatonovIn What Does It Mean to Be Post Soviet? Madina Tlostanova traces how contemporary post Soviet art mediates this human condition. Observing how the concept of the happy future which was at the core of the project of Soviet modernity has lapsed from the post Soviet imagination, Tlostanova shows how the possible way out of such a sense of futurelessness lies in the engagement with activist art. She interviews artists, art collectives, and writers such as