Michał Murawski
Biographic Data
| ID | 111607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michał Murawski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michał |
| FAMILY NAME | Murawski |
| SIGNATURE | MURAWSKI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9988-2960 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction: Verticality, radicalism, resistance
In recent decades urban scholarship has witnessed a ‘vertical’ or ‘volumetric’ turn that has advanced understandings of the multi-modal power asymmetries cutting through and organising urban space. Yet, this volumetric scholarship often remains locked into binary critiques – of success/failure, inclusion/exclusion, luxury/abjection, dispossession/accumulation, arborescent/rhizomatic, horizontal/vertical. This special issue tinkers with the limita…
Blagoustroistvo: Infrastructure, Determinism, (Re-)coloniality, and Social Engineering in Moscow, 1917-2022
Blagoustroistvo is an archaic Russian word used today primarily to refer to urban public works. This article, a collaboration between an anthropologist and a historian, focuses on aesthetics, rhetorics, and concrete practices of blagoustroistvo in Moscow during two temporal junctures: the first decade following the October Revolution (ca. 1917-1930), and the decade of Sergey Sobyanin's Moscow Mayoralty (2010-). Our juxtaposition reveals striking …
Notes from the Opening of a Neo-Soviet House of Culture
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Falshfasad: Infrastructure, materialism, and realism in wild-capitalist Moscow
Zaryadye Park is an extravagant landscaping project-cum-multimedia attraction that opened in 2017 adjacent to Moscow's Kremlin. This article opens with a short reflection on the portents of war legible, with the benefit of hindsight, in Zaryadye's design. It navigates the thicket of aesthetics, ideologies, ecologies, and economies blossoming in Zaryadye, interrogating propagandistic characterizations of it as an ethereal terrain where infrastruct…
Marxist morphologies
This article critiques assumptions made by urban anthropologists and other scholars of cities, focusing on currently fashionable theories of infrastructure, materiality, and complexity. It problematizes how scholarship informed by actor-network theory, assemblage theory and other varieties of (post)postmodernism uses morphological optics and metaphors to represent social life, the material world, and existence itself as necessarily "flat," "compl…
Actually-Existing Success: Economics, Aesthetics, and the Specificity of (Still-)Socialist Urbanism
A quarter century following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the people's democracies, many of the dwellings, utilities, and public spaces built by these regimes continue to be cherished by their inhabitants and users. This has only increased as post-socialist urban landscapes undergo an ever-intensifying process of neoliberal 're-privatization,' de-planning, and spatial as well as economic stratification. Scholars, however, continue to produ…
Radical Centres: The Political Morphology of Monumentality in Warsaw and Johannesburg
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The Art of Dissident Domesticity
This article explores the relationship between state and international orders of coercion and control at the intersections of digital media, popular culture, and high art. Collaboratively written, it elaborates what we call the concept of dissident domesticity that describes how confined subjects respond to the overwhelming spatial and temporal control of confinement; political opposition conducted through domestic forms shows the tensions betwee…
Inappropriate object: Warsaw and the Stalin‐era Palace of Culture after the Smolensk disaster (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
This article is about the shifting relationship between the city of Warsaw and the Palace of Culture and Science – a gigantic Stalinist skyscraper which dominates the city centre – in the aftermath of the 10 April 2010 plane crash that killed the Polish president and 95 others (mostly very senior military and political figures) in the woods outside Smolensk in western Russia. The crash's victims had been on their way to a ceremony commemorating t…
Berlin, Alexanderplatz: Transforming place in a unified Germany - By Gisa Weszkalnys
Actually-Existing Success: Economics, Aesthetics, and the Specificity of (Still-)Socialist Urbanism
A quarter century following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the people's democracies, many of the dwellings, utilities, and public spaces built by these regimes continue to be cherished by their inhabitants and users. This has only increased as post-socialist urban landscapes undergo an ever-intensifying process of neoliberal 're-privatization,' de-planning, and spatial as well as economic stratification. Scholars, however, continue to produ…
Marxist morphologies
This article critiques assumptions made by urban anthropologists and other scholars of cities, focusing on currently fashionable theories of infrastructure, materiality, and complexity. It problematizes how scholarship informed by actor-network theory, assemblage theory and other varieties of (post)postmodernism uses morphological optics and metaphors to represent social life, the material world, and existence itself as necessarily "flat," "compl…
Falshfasad: Infrastructure, materialism, and realism in wild-capitalist Moscow
Zaryadye Park is an extravagant landscaping project-cum-multimedia attraction that opened in 2017 adjacent to Moscow's Kremlin. This article opens with a short reflection on the portents of war legible, with the benefit of hindsight, in Zaryadye's design. It navigates the thicket of aesthetics, ideologies, ecologies, and economies blossoming in Zaryadye, interrogating propagandistic characterizations of it as an ethereal terrain where infrastruct…
Introduction: Verticality, radicalism, resistance
In recent decades urban scholarship has witnessed a ‘vertical’ or ‘volumetric’ turn that has advanced understandings of the multi-modal power asymmetries cutting through and organising urban space. Yet, this volumetric scholarship often remains locked into binary critiques – of success/failure, inclusion/exclusion, luxury/abjection, dispossession/accumulation, arborescent/rhizomatic, horizontal/vertical. This special issue tinkers with the limita…
Radical Centres: The Political Morphology of Monumentality in Warsaw and Johannesburg
peerreview_statement: The publishing and review policy for this title is described in its Aims & Scope. aims_and_scope_url: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=ctte20
Blagoustroistvo: Infrastructure, Determinism, (Re-)coloniality, and Social Engineering in Moscow, 1917-2022
Blagoustroistvo is an archaic Russian word used today primarily to refer to urban public works. This article, a collaboration between an anthropologist and a historian, focuses on aesthetics, rhetorics, and concrete practices of blagoustroistvo in Moscow during two temporal junctures: the first decade following the October Revolution (ca. 1917-1930), and the decade of Sergey Sobyanin's Moscow Mayoralty (2010-). Our juxtaposition reveals striking …
The Art of Dissident Domesticity
This article explores the relationship between state and international orders of coercion and control at the intersections of digital media, popular culture, and high art. Collaboratively written, it elaborates what we call the concept of dissident domesticity that describes how confined subjects respond to the overwhelming spatial and temporal control of confinement; political opposition conducted through domestic forms shows the tensions betwee…
Inappropriate object: Warsaw and the Stalin‐era Palace of Culture after the Smolensk disaster (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
This article is about the shifting relationship between the city of Warsaw and the Palace of Culture and Science – a gigantic Stalinist skyscraper which dominates the city centre – in the aftermath of the 10 April 2010 plane crash that killed the Polish president and 95 others (mostly very senior military and political figures) in the woods outside Smolensk in western Russia. The crash's victims had been on their way to a ceremony commemorating t…
Inappropriate object: Warsaw and the Stalin‐era Palace of Culture after the Smolensk disaster (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
This article is about the shifting relationship between the city of Warsaw and the Palace of Culture and Science – a gigantic Stalinist skyscraper which dominates the city centre – in the aftermath of the 10 April 2010 plane crash that killed the Polish president and 95 others (mostly very senior military and political figures) in the woods outside Smolensk in western Russia. The crash's victims had been on their way to a ceremony commemorating t…
Berlin, Alexanderplatz: Transforming place in a unified Germany - By Gisa Weszkalnys
Radical Centres: The Political Morphology of Monumentality in Warsaw and Johannesburg
peerreview_statement: The publishing and review policy for this title is described in its Aims & Scope. aims_and_scope_url: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=ctte20
The Art of Dissident Domesticity
This article explores the relationship between state and international orders of coercion and control at the intersections of digital media, popular culture, and high art. Collaboratively written, it elaborates what we call the concept of dissident domesticity that describes how confined subjects respond to the overwhelming spatial and temporal control of confinement; political opposition conducted through domestic forms shows the tensions betwee…
Marxist morphologies
This article critiques assumptions made by urban anthropologists and other scholars of cities, focusing on currently fashionable theories of infrastructure, materiality, and complexity. It problematizes how scholarship informed by actor-network theory, assemblage theory and other varieties of (post)postmodernism uses morphological optics and metaphors to represent social life, the material world, and existence itself as necessarily "flat," "compl…
Actually-Existing Success: Economics, Aesthetics, and the Specificity of (Still-)Socialist Urbanism
A quarter century following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the people's democracies, many of the dwellings, utilities, and public spaces built by these regimes continue to be cherished by their inhabitants and users. This has only increased as post-socialist urban landscapes undergo an ever-intensifying process of neoliberal 're-privatization,' de-planning, and spatial as well as economic stratification. Scholars, however, continue to produ…
Notes from the Opening of a Neo-Soviet House of Culture
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Falshfasad: Infrastructure, materialism, and realism in wild-capitalist Moscow
Zaryadye Park is an extravagant landscaping project-cum-multimedia attraction that opened in 2017 adjacent to Moscow's Kremlin. This article opens with a short reflection on the portents of war legible, with the benefit of hindsight, in Zaryadye's design. It navigates the thicket of aesthetics, ideologies, ecologies, and economies blossoming in Zaryadye, interrogating propagandistic characterizations of it as an ethereal terrain where infrastruct…
Blagoustroistvo: Infrastructure, Determinism, (Re-)coloniality, and Social Engineering in Moscow, 1917-2022
Blagoustroistvo is an archaic Russian word used today primarily to refer to urban public works. This article, a collaboration between an anthropologist and a historian, focuses on aesthetics, rhetorics, and concrete practices of blagoustroistvo in Moscow during two temporal junctures: the first decade following the October Revolution (ca. 1917-1930), and the decade of Sergey Sobyanin's Moscow Mayoralty (2010-). Our juxtaposition reveals striking …
Introduction: Verticality, radicalism, resistance
In recent decades urban scholarship has witnessed a ‘vertical’ or ‘volumetric’ turn that has advanced understandings of the multi-modal power asymmetries cutting through and organising urban space. Yet, this volumetric scholarship often remains locked into binary critiques – of success/failure, inclusion/exclusion, luxury/abjection, dispossession/accumulation, arborescent/rhizomatic, horizontal/vertical. This special issue tinkers with the limita…
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