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INVENTING DISTANCES THE AESTHETIC FIXATION OF SOCIOCULTURAL INEQUALITIES IN A POST-SOCIALIST SOCIETY Mikhail Minakov DAAD Gastprofessor, IFES Europe-University Viadrina Professor, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy 24 October

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INVENTING DISTANCES THE AESTHETIC FIXATION OF SOCIOCULTURAL INEQUALITIES IN A POST-SOCIALIST SOCIETY

Mikhail Minakov DAAD Gastprofessor, IFES Europe-University Viadrina Professor, National University of ‘Kyiv-Mohyla Academy’ 24 October 2017, Frankfurt an der Oder

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INVENTING DISTANCES

post-equality complex in post-socialist societies
inequality is the difference in options available to individuals to,

as well as the difference In ability to fulfill the chosen option

inventing inequality and its aesthetic fixation
post-Soviet and post-socialist cities are spaces of difference,

in social, economic, legal, and generic cultural terms. Societies had to learn again what poverty and prosperity mean, as well as the difference between the center and the periphery; and we had to re-invent what the city is

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NEW RELIGION

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SPIRITUALITY VS CLERICALISM

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SACRED VS PROPHANE

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REINVENTING CITY

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CENTER VS PERIPHERY

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BEAUTY OF GHETTO

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WORK VS LEISURE

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PERSISTENT AND EMERGING DIFFERENCES

Disruptions of the socialist and pre-socialist past, the decay of

city centers, interruptions in self-governance, tourist colonization, the emergence of ghettos, the return of religion, deindustrialization, and many other cultural phenomena are now seen in urban post-Soviet landscapes. In this collection of photographs I register persistent and emerging differences in post-socialist, post-equality cities.