Boris Buden, Želimir Žilnik, kuda.org, et al.: Uvod u prošlost (2013) [Serbian]

“Ovo je knjiga koja se naizgled bavi jednim sasvim određenim segmentom prošlosti, nečime što se je nekada zvalo kulturna povijest. No, tu kulturnu povijest ona ne tretira kao posebnu disciplinu historiografije koja za svoj predmet uzima ono što je u prošlosti steklo status kulturnog dobra. Za ovu knjigu kulturna povijest je sama forma u kojoj nam se danas ukazuje prošlost. U mjeri u kojoj smo svjesni prošlosti, svjesni smo je kao kulture.

Konkretno, kada se u ovoj knjizi govori o kulturnoj proizvodnji bivše Jugoslavije, o filmovima, odnosno o takozvanom filmskom jeziku redatelja Želimira Žilnika, kada se u njoj raspravlja o sukobima u kulturi, njihovim akterima, odnosu politike i umjetnosti, o ekonomskim pretpostavkama filmske produkcije i njenim društvenim efektima, onda se o tome ne govori u disciplinarnom smislu jedne, recimo, povijesti jugoslavenskog filma, odnosno, individualnog filmskog djela određenog redatelja, pri čemu kategorije društva, politike i ekonomije služe kontekstualizaciji jednog po sebi čisto kulturnog narativa. Kultura se ne zbiva u nekakvom unaprijed zadanom ekonomskom, političkom i društvenom kontekstu; ona je kao takva uvijek već i ekonomska činjenica i politički faktor i društveni proizvod. Ona nam ne govori o tome kakva je prošlost doista bila, nego jest ta prošlost u njenoj prisutnosti, aktualnosti, neizvjesnosti, otvorenosti. Ona je prošlost s onu stranu njene razlike spram sadašnjosti i budućnosti.” (Iz predgovora)

Publisher Centar za nove medije_kuda.org, Novi Sad, September 2013
kuda.read series
Copyleft license
ISBN 9788688567077
221 pages

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Vladimir Majakovskij: Memoirs and Essays (1975)

“This collection of materials on Majakovskij is the result of Swedish-Russian cooperation, with the Russian side represented by such prominent contributors as Lilja Brik, Elsa Triolet, N. Xardziev, and V. Katanjan. As the highlight, the reader will unquestionably single out the memoirs by Lilja Brik and Elsa Triolet. Written in 1956, both were originally intended for the ill-fated second volume of materials on Majakovskij which was to appear in the series Literaturnoe nasledstvo and which Central Committee banned from publication in 1958.” (from a review by Halina Stephan)

Edited by Bengt Jangfeldt and Nils Åke Nilsson
Publisher Almqvist & Wiksell International, Stockholm, 1975
ISBN 9122000275
196 pages

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See also:
Bengt Jangfeldt: Majakovskij and Futurism, 1917-1921 (133pp, 1976, updated on 2013-12-8)
VV Majakovskij, LJ Brik: Correspondence 1915-1930 (in Russian, 299pp, 1982) — the link is dead, anyone has a backup?

Owen Hatherley: Militant Modernism (2009)

“This book is a defence of Modernism against its defenders. In readings of modern design, film, pop and especially architecture, it attempts to reclaim a revolutionary modernism against its absorption into the heritage industry and the aesthetics of the luxury flat. Militant Modernism features new readings of some familiar names – Bertolt Brecht, Le Corbusier – but more on the lesser known, quotidian modernists of the 20th century. The chapters range from a study of industrial and brutalist aesthetics in Britain, Russian Constructivism in architecture, the Sexpol of Wilhelm Reich in film and design, and the alienation effects of Brecht and Hanns Eisler on record and on screen – all arguing for a Modernism of everyday life, immersed in questions of socialism, sexual politics and technology.”

Publisher Zero Books, 2009
ISBN 1846941768, 9781846941764
146 pages

Reviews: Will Self (London Review of Books, 2012), PD Smith (The Guardian, 2009), Jonathan Meades (New Statesman, 2009), Dan Hicks (Planning Perspectives, 2009), Kat Koh (2011).

Interview (Andrew Stevens, 3:AM Magazine, 2009)

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