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Politics of the surface. Keeping pace with the monument of the Soviet Army in Sofia

Politics of the surface. Keeping pace with the monument of the Soviet Army in Sofia
Politics of the surface. Keeping pace with the monument of the Soviet Army in Sofia
This article proposes a rethinking of the operations of surfaces, using the concept of ‘recursion’ to explore surfaces as not only spatial, but also temporal objects engaged in the production of continuity and rupture through time. The text engages with the transformation of a specific high relief at the Monument to the Soviet Army in Sofia, which in the past decade has been subjected to a series of material and semiotic modifications. The analysis of interventions on the relief created between 2011-2018 stimulates an engagement with a set of questions pertaining to the way in which surfaces are engaged in the production of temporal continuity and rupture. To achieve a theoretical intervention in monument, visual and urban studies, the article mobilises cultural topology and media theory, alongside scholarship dealing with Bulgarian post-communist urban space and politics.
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Genova, Neda
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Genova, Neda
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Genova, Neda (2022) Politics of the surface. Keeping pace with the monument of the Soviet Army in Sofia. New Formations, 106 (3/4), 25-42. (doi:10.3898/Newf:106.02.2022).

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This article proposes a rethinking of the operations of surfaces, using the concept of ‘recursion’ to explore surfaces as not only spatial, but also temporal objects engaged in the production of continuity and rupture through time. The text engages with the transformation of a specific high relief at the Monument to the Soviet Army in Sofia, which in the past decade has been subjected to a series of material and semiotic modifications. The analysis of interventions on the relief created between 2011-2018 stimulates an engagement with a set of questions pertaining to the way in which surfaces are engaged in the production of temporal continuity and rupture. To achieve a theoretical intervention in monument, visual and urban studies, the article mobilises cultural topology and media theory, alongside scholarship dealing with Bulgarian post-communist urban space and politics.

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Published date: 24 August 2022

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Local EPrints ID: 494750
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/494750
PURE UUID: 1d1bb828-5a6c-4305-998a-0a1170850b8a
ORCID for Neda Genova: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0558-6840

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Date deposited: 15 Oct 2024 16:38
Last modified: 16 Oct 2024 02:15

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Author: Neda Genova ORCID iD

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