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Res Publica Nowa 3/2008
3/2008
Urban spaces
Editorial
Whose city? A dispute about images of the cities and urban space in postsocialist Europe
Construction of urban spaces after communism has been a complex process of fighting with symbols and historical remains, introducing free market, advertisements, and new types of housing. All this in a fervent debate about how to live in a space that no longer has the strict ideological setting it used to have.
The Warsaw non-uprising. Phantoms of a non-existing metropolis
The Venice Biennale 2008 prize winner writes on the potential of a non-existing architecture for creating a common space in the city. Based on the pre-war Warsaw EXPO plans as well as Berlin's and Rome's architectures.
City: a vision and a method
The author claims that the Polish process of urban planning is chaotic due to a false belief in the free market understood as laissez-faire without a plan. Instead, we need a tough general plan of development with strict rules and procedures administered by municipal offices.
Urban perfumery
The scent-space of the city. How it is constructed, what are the constrains. Without city smells (those nice and those unpleasant) we wouldn't have an urban space, after all.
European ghetto
An interview with Hartmut Häußermann who claims, among other things, that there is no "ghettoisation" process in Europe.
Fencing in the commoners. About closed housing estates in the metropolis
On the phenomenon of gated communities from a sociological perspective.
Urban neurosis. Warsaw
A psychoanalytic analysis of Warsaw. Amusing essay on the influence of traumatic experiences on the city and its dwellers.
Criminal mysteries of old Warsaw
Short criminal chronicles of Warsaw since the middle ages.
Culture
In search of the flâneuse
Essay about a female kind of flâneur, recreating a female perspective on the city.
Fictitious Journeys
Translated excerpts of Melberg's writings.
Performance 1968. About a ball in Zalesie
A story of an artists' party in the town of Zalesie in 1968.
The world as an idea. About passivity in Reiner Werner Fassbinder's texts
Intellectual histories of photographers
Archiviste, Piotr Kłoczowski
Interview about Konstanty A. Jeleński.
Konstanty A. Jeleński (1922-1987)
A tribute to K.A. Jeleński -- reprinted
Europe -- discussions
A tough player, Antoinette Primatarova
Interview on the condition of Bulgaria's politics after joining the EU.
A game with small countries
An article on Russia's international politics with respect to Bulgaria and other small states.
Economy
Who knows, if there is going to be a crisis -- how to become an economic guru
Economic essay laughing at so called economic experts and their methods to look smart while presenting in media.
I am waiting for a move of a 20 years old generation
Interview on politics and economy with the former CEO of the PKN Orlen company -- Poland's premier oil company.
Press review
Total critique in Kiev
A review of the journal Krytyka from Kiev.
Books
Male subject of revolution and (self) annihilation of women
On Kristeva's writings.
In praise of variety -- creative city
Commenting Richard Florida's work on the sociology of cities and other sociologists.
The impossible political philosophy of Husserl
Review of a book on Husserl.
The devil is not so black
Review of a critical approach to democracy in Poland in a book by Stawrowski.
Politics / ideas
Who is the future going to belong to?
Interview with Frank Ankersmit.
All quiet in the electoral system
There is no need to change the electoral system. Any change in the system itself will not bring the desired improvement. Cases from Italy and Poland are compared.
Essay school
The Apocalypse and perspective after 60 years
Introduction to the essay.
The Apocalypse and Perspective
Reprint of a classical text by K.A. Jeleński.
Poems
Impressions of those who took part in the festival "Poems in a subway" in Warsaw.
still in a doorway/undecided what to do/so perfectly lost
Note on the poems and authors.
