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The Cultural Life of Capitalism in Yugoslavia -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Cultural Capitalism the (Post)Yugoslav Way -- Capitalism: A Restructured Feeling -- Cultural Hybridity and the Yugoslav State of (Non-)Exception -- Notes Towards Cultural Capitalism -- References -- Part I Capital(ism) and Class Cultures -- Chapter 2 The Strange Absence of Capital(ism) -- References -- Chapter 3 Fictions of Crime in a State of Exception -- Yugoslav Exceptionalism -- Crime Fiction -- A Specimen Story -- A Socialist Masochism -- References -- Chapter 4 Rethinking Class in Socialist Yugoslavia: Labor, Body, and Moral Economy -- On Liminality -- The Bodies -- The Gaze -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 The Restoration of Capitalism After Yugoslavia: Cultural Capital, Class and Power -- Class as a Discursive Object: "Nation-Talk" and "Class-Talk" in Post-Yugoslav Capitalism -- Cultural Boundary-making: Culture as Capital -- Egalitarianism, Neoliberalism and the Myth of Middle-classness -- Five Cultural Types and Their Class: Localism vs Cosmopolitanism -- Aesthetic Cultures and Their Class Affiliation -- Social Character and Moral Economy of Cultural Types: Class, Gender and Ethnicity -- Conclusion: Middle Classes in Search of Mythical Fullness -- References -- Chapter 6 Class and Culture in Yugoslav Factory Newspapers -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- References -- Chapter 7 Post-Yugoslav Notes on Marx's Class Theory and Middle-Class Classism -- Introduction -- Two Theories of Class in Marx -- Class and Culture -- Middle Class and Classism -- References -- Part II Trajectories of Capitalism: Culture and Everyday Life -- Chapter 8 On Yugoslav Market Socialism Through Živojin Pavlović's When I Am Dead and Pale (1967) -- Black Wave Films Preceded the Minerva's Owl of 1968

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The "Radiant Future" of Spatial and Temporal Dis/Orientations -- The Unfinished Business of (Post)Socialism -- Reflecting a Radiant Future -- The Circuits of Intimacy -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Part 1. New Approaches to (Post)Socialism: The Theory in Transition -- Chapter 1. The Endless Innovations of the Semiperiphery and the Peculiar Power of Eastern Europe -- Dialectics of the Semiperiphery -- The Diffusion of the Yugoslav Self-Management Model -- Isomorphism and the Semiperiphery -- The Contested Theorization Trajectory of Civil Society -- Eastern Europe as Neoliberal Testing Ground -- Eastern Europe and the Reinvention of the Right -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2. Socialist Future in Light of Socialist Past and Capitalist Present -- Introduction -- Socialist Past -- Explaining the Demise of the Soviet System -- Capitalist Present -- Socialist Future -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3. "Failing the Metronome": Queer Reading of the Postsocialist Transitio -- Fast-Forward from Backwardness -- There is No Transition -- "I am Dizzy and Weak From the Sudden Transition" -- Notes -- References -- Part 2. (Post)Socialist Space(s) -- Chapter 4. "Brand" New States: Postsocialism, the Global Economy of Symbols, and the Challenges of National Differentiation -- Branding the Nation: A Précis of the Practice and Its Goals -- The Curious Knot: An Overview of the Relationship between State Branding and (Post)Socialism -- "This is Jüri": Making Estonians, or the Evolution of the Postsocialism's Branded Wunderkind -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5. Putting the 'Public' in Public Goods: Space Wars in a Post-Soviet Dacha Community -- Introduction: Revisiting the "Grand Dichotomy" -- The Public and the Private in a Post-Soviet Dacha Settlement