Trans European Picnic. Dedicated to J. The essay. From the point of view of the modern globalisation of the world, there are cultures which are not central enough, not timely and big enough in comparison to the 'Great Nations'. At the same time they are insufficiently distant, and insufficiently backward, in contrast to the African tribes, for example. That's why, in their own troubled embryo, somewhere in the periphery of Civilisation, they arise in the space of a generative doubt: We are Europeans, although perhaps not to a real extent. In outlining a region which doesn't fit properly in the framework of today's postcolonial discourse, being neither colonizer, nor colonized in the strict meaning of the words, but navigating somewhere in between, he points to the very heart of the main cultural dilemma of Eastern- Europe, more accurately, of the Post- socialist countries. One cannot resist the feeling that it is hardly accidental, that the frustration raised from being trapped into two extreme categories, popped up in the Eastern part of the region, which nowadays most commonly named Eastern- Central Europe, since the so- called Central part is very busy defining itself as being essentially part of Europe, or at least closer to it. This latter part of the seemingly homogeneous region in the time of Soviet dominance - at least as it was seen as such form the outside - started to separate itself from the others (the . On one hand, it provides the illusion of becoming an equal member of the community overnight, which would resolve the old dilemma of belonging immediately, which goes - of course - hand- in- hand with helpful collective amnesia. Occupy Wall Street TV NSA Clip Library. Top Animation & Cartoons Arts & Music Community Video Computers & Technology Cultural & Academic Films Ephemeral. To raczej funkcjonariusze medi. Kuchnia (20) Iwona Pruszy With the most current opposition of laudation and lamentation over integration, the good old dilemmas - universal versus national, global versus local, center versus periphery - are back again in a new form, to which we can add the most up- to date nomenclature: standardization versus culture with local specificities. The modernist discourse provided. This was a game. of balancing, like dancing on thin ice. From the critical position of . What relevance would it have for the project of giving significance to the past in this part of the world. There is no doubt in my mind, for example, that the history of Eastern European art has suffered from the shadow of the master narrative of the West. To put it differently, to what extent does the basically Anglo- Saxon poststructuralist theory enable the articulation of the experiences of former peripheries? Even though the new theory claims the need to . Even its case studies refer to the context of the center, in which the . Thus, the new theory is not a perfect fit for the deconstruction of this marginalized part of modernist discourse. The paradigm of modernism organized around pure notions of style, sterile categories, and the production of innovation and originality could not accommodate all the local expressions, variations, . It is not easy to avoid the pitfall of the controversy implicit both in modernism's universalistic claim and even in its criticism. From a critical position, Hans Belting is against adapting Western values. One just wonders, what the real reference is against which the region's art is to be measured. It could still be treated as . In this part of the world, modernism, soon had become an unofficial culture and, as an underground movement, was therefore denied public access. His elaboration of the different path, taken by the East continues with very important statements, striking right into the heart of the recent situation. Where . However, coming from the region, I cannot share the opinion, which almost seems as wishful thinking, that . On the contrary, it is almost as valid as it was with the enforced bastions in the institutional system. Regarding the criticism of the canon and the new critical theory - at least in the Hungarian case- we are definitely not at the end of the age of innocence, as our art history is far from being after modernism. While the shift - detected precisely by Belting - made by Eastern modernism is crucial in my view as well, I would counter, that the consequences of this . They arise through the constitutive trauma that: We are not Others (seeing in the Others the representatives of the Universal), and this trauma is also connected with the awareness that they have appeared too late and that their life is a reservoir of the shortcomings of civilization. I would rather additionally clarify, that those who were allowed to write history have treated the culture of the region in this way. The result is a double mechanism, and the oft repeated vision has been internalized by the population of that culture. Of course, the process is followed by of lowering self- esteem, and the development of a cultural inferiority complex. In the shadow of this psychological construction, looms a hidden suspicion that believes the whole mechanism is generated for the sake of the controllers. Consequently, the trauma, in my view, emerges from this uncertain and opaque position of . It comes from the constant shift of being included or excluded, or, at least, from the mental sensation of this pendulum, and definitely not from a clear- cut position of the colonized. This transfer of aggression towards others could be even turned backwards, becoming a tool of further self- torturing. The shadow of suspiciousness transcends all relations afterwards. Eventually they became nouveau rich and powerful overnight. The effective psychological tool of . Self- blaming strategies as a coping process for sexual assault victims in the aftermath of rape, is well- known within psychology. In my view, precisely this process is imitating itself in the theory of self- colonization.
The victim of trauma cannot shake the limits of self- blame, and goes so far as to accept responsibility for the situation. The theory of self- colonialism serves exactly this differentiation on a silver platter, and could be the best- fit fantasy of today's dominant theorists. Or, put differently, it falls into the pitfall of the new critical theory. This strategy offers a policy of burying one's head into the sand, and cuts off any possibility for entering the discourse and subverting it. Rallying the metaphor of trauma, self- colonization theory actually doubles the trauma by essentialising and fixing the binary opposition, closing the door at the more nuanced critique and analyses. At the same time, it reinforces the old stereotypes of the region: cultures which are self- destructive and masochistic, deriving pleasure from pain and suffering. I am proposing that this essentialising dual system should be altered along with eliminating old stereotypes. I am very concerned to get beyond the victim/agent dichotomy. Even though it declares the elimination of such opposition, offering instead many local centers. According to this in- between position, not so much mapping dependency is at stake, but rather mapping ignorance, so to speak, and the anxiety of getting into the blind spot of the new discourse and the remnant of imbalanced power relations. There is an urgent need to make this spot visible, since it will be further obscured by the physical act and psychological illusion of integration. There is another postcolonial relationship that should be noticed and studied: the connection between nations of the former periphery, whose solidarity is greatly corrupted by the selective system of the European Union, which either grants privileges of access, or denies it. The psychological price paid by the new insiders, is the loss of any solidarity and sensation of common experiences with those who remain outside. Sovremennyj aktivnyj english. CHeRo Moskva 1999 2-e izdanie, ispr. No other snapshots from this url. 14:52:19 UTC: All snapshots: from host archive.org from host ligaswiata.pl. Notes on Self- colonising Cultures. Elliott (ed.) Art and Culture in post- Communist Europe. Stockholm: Moderna Museet. See Central European University (CEU), Budapest; magazines like CENTROPA published in New York; Central European Cultural Institute, Budapest and its periodical European Traveller published in Budapest; Praesens. Central European Contemporary Art Review, published in Budapest etc. Larry Wolff (1. 99. Inventing Eastern Europe: The map of civilization in the mind of the enlightment. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. Griselda Pollock (1. Inscription in the Feminine. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Hans Belting (2. 00. Art History after Modernism. Chicago: Chicago Press. In: Money. Nations Magazine. Further development: Edit Andr? The old practice of art criticism of the East versus the new critical theory of the West. Belting op. Artmargins online, www. Anna Szemere (2. 00. Paper presented at the 2. Sicoal theory, politics, and arts. Golden Gate University, San Francisco. S. The history of art as a self- colonizing tool. Artmargins online; Iara Boubnova (2. European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: P A WWWeb Journal http: //www. Kiossev op. Heaven, john Connors, Annelie Pretorius (1. The Journal of Social Psychology 1. See: Rancour- Laferriere, Daniel (1. The slave soul of Russia : moral masochism. New York : New York University Press. Gy. 4. 87- 5. 10; see also: Andr.
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