Dynamising Things: Essays on Objects, Relations, and People (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004760356)

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Dynamising Things: Essays on Objects, Relations, and People

$185.00

Dynamising Things: Essays on Objects, Relations, and People

$185.00
Format: Hardcover
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Using diverse historical and ethnographic materials, this collection explores the various relationships between people and things that were actively fostered during the seven decades of Soviet socialism. It demonstrates how things, not always fully socialist, energized social relations, shaped communities, cultivated new identities, objectified emerging attitudes, and provoked affective attachments. In particular, this collection pays close attention to what Viktor Shklovsky, the founder of Russian Formalism, called "long-term things"--palpable, non-fictitious objects that refuse to disappear, insisting instead on their active presence and enduring relevance.

Author: Serguei Alex Oushakine
ISBN-10: 9004760350
ISBN-13: 9789004760356
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 07/09/2026
Pages: 580
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.28lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.10w x 1.31d
By Serguei Alex Oushakine
By Serguei Alex Oushakine
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Serguei Oushakine is Professor of Anthropology and Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. His research deals with Soviet and post-Soviet cultures in Eurasia. His current projects include a study of early Soviet pedagogy of images, and the history of Russian Formalism.

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