The desire for fullness. The fantasmatic logic of modernization discourses in the turn of the 19th century in Łódź

Zysiak, Agata

doi:10.14746/pt.2014.3.3

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“…The city suffered a very difficult transformation after the fall of the USSR, becoming a classic example of a mono-functional, shrinking city. With its rich industrial heritage, it emerged from its socialist past as a perfect laboratory for the implementation of mainstream solutions originating in the UK (Zysiak, 2014). It took around 20 years for city authorities to shift away from a focus on the creative classes, culture-led development, iconic buildings and the Bilbao effect, to acceptance of the need to truly commit to the regeneration of the seriously deteriorating inner city (Galuszka, 2017) characterised by near slum-like conditions and social deprivation issues (Warzywoda-Kruszyńska and Jankowski, 2013).…”

Section: Planning Practice and Perceptions Of Developmentmentioning

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Transcending path dependencies: Why the study of post-socialist cities needs to capitalise on the discussion on urbanisation in the South (and vice versa)

Gałuszka

2021

Urban Studies

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Recently, the theoretical relevance and utility of the regionalised notion of post-socialist cities have been questioned. The ensuing debate has resulted in several positions, including suggestions to drop the term entirely or to create a distinctive narrative based on the concept of a Global East, in order to position the knowledge as equal vis-a-vis discourses originating from Western power centres. This article responds to this call through efforts to transcend the dominant frames of research on post-socialist cities. However, I argue that the first step in overcoming the subaltern positioning of local knowledge is to refocus attention on previously marginalised urban phenomena, and to link the post-socialist research agenda to existing empowering discourses. The importance of creating linkages with the research originating from the South, and the potential for such joint engagements to contribute to global theory-making are discussed in the context of the study of urban informality.

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Section: Planning Practice and Perceptions Of Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transcending path dependencies: Why the study of post-socialist cities needs to capitalise on the discussion on urbanisation in the South (and vice versa)

Gałuszka

2021

Urban Studies

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“…Although it was the second biggest city after Warsaw, because of its lack of any previous higher education institutions (the only one being a local branch of the non-public university of Warsaw) it had no previous academic structures to be reproduced. However, as an industrial giant Lodz was considered to be a "red" city with its tradition of the 1905 Revolution and labour movements, historically playing a kind of figure of the 'Other' in Polish culture (Zysiak 2014). All in all, it was a perfect place to build a university for the new times, and one could easily feel and become a part of this change.…”

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The Socialist Project for a New Intelligentsia and Its Limits. Academic Careers in the Polish Post-War University: A Biographical Perspective

Zysiak

2015

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The paper examines the post-war period of reconstruction of the Polish academic system from the perspective of young academicians and students of that time. The generation born in the 1920s and early 1930s witnessed a profound change in Polish society, when its intelligentsia and universities had to face the dramatic events of post-WWII. The forthcoming reform of science and the higher education system was an attempt to build a socialist university and an egalitarian society. Those processes are often viewed as the political domination of academia, the captivity of professors, and seduction of students. It is a part of the story. On the contrary, it is argued herein that the academic field and its associated processes shaped the biographical paths of erstwhile scientists/academics as strongly, if not stronger, than the political factors which usually are brought to the forefront by researchers. Three chosen academic biographies present the complexity of those processes, and at the same time they reveal different patterns of the interplay between political changes, the university, the academic habitus and higher education reform.

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“…Kino w systemie rozrywkowym Łodzi (2013) 9 oraz Karoliny Kołodziej Obraz Łodzi w piśmiennictwie pozytywistyczno-młodopolskim (2009) 10 ; ważne artykuły Agaty Zysiak The desire for fullness. The fantasmatic logic of modernization discourses at the turn of the 19th and 20th century in Łódź (2014) 11 i Andreasa Kosserta 'Promised land'? Urban myth and the shaping of modernity in industrial cities: Manchester and Lodz (2006) 12 .…”

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Awersy i rewersy modernizmu. Paradoksy „pejzaży łódzkich” Władysława Strzemińskiego

Karpowicz

2024

Łódź. Miasto Modernistyczne

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Autorka analizuje Pejzaże łódzkie i litografie z cyklu Łódź bez funkcjonalizmu Władysława Strzemińskiego w odniesieniu do jego projektu urbanistycznego zaproponowanego w artykule Łódź sfunkcjonalizowana. Poszukuje wielostronnych relacji zachodzących między twórczością i tekstami artysty z lat 30. XX wieku a krajobrazem kulturowym ówczesnej Łodzi. Ujęcie to pozwala wskazać na główne napięcia, kryzysy i wewnętrzne sprzeczności łódzkiego modernizmu w architekturze i urbanistyce, sztuce Strzemińskiego i jego doświadczeniu miejskim, ale też szerzej – kryzys modernizmu rozumianego jako formacja w obrębie kultury nowoczesnej.

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The desire for fullness. The fantasmatic logic of modernization discourses in the turn of the 19th century in Łódź

Abstract: At that time Poland was in a personal constitutional union with the Russian Empire, created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna. The Tsars soon reduced Polish autonomy, and eventually Russia de facto annexed the country.

Cited by 8 publications

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Transcending path dependencies: Why the study of post-socialist cities needs to capitalise on the discussion on urbanisation in the South (and vice versa)

Transcending path dependencies: Why the study of post-socialist cities needs to capitalise on the discussion on urbanisation in the South (and vice versa)

The Socialist Project for a New Intelligentsia and Its Limits. Academic Careers in the Polish Post-War University: A Biographical Perspective

Awersy i rewersy modernizmu. Paradoksy „pejzaży łódzkich” Władysława Strzemińskiego

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