Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-318) and index.
Contents
1. Late socialism : an eternal state -- 2. Hegemony of form : Stalin's uncanny paradigm shift -- 3. Ideology inside out : ethics and poetics -- 4. Living "vyne" : deterritorialized milieus -- 5. Imaginary west : the elsewhere of late socialism -- 6. True colors of communism : King Crimson, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd -- 7. Dead irony : necroaesthetics, "stiob" and the anekdot.