Dystopia, fact to fetish : the Eastern Bloc Girl and aesthetization of a fallen regime

Taştan, İrem and Ozdamar Ertekin, Zeynep (2023) Dystopia, fact to fetish : the Eastern Bloc Girl and aesthetization of a fallen regime. In: Utopia Revisited, 2023-06-27 - 2023-06-30, Lund University.

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Abstract

Study investigates the fetishization of the dystopic past of Eastern Bloc, focusing on the cultural creations of a girl-blogger account on Instagram. Preliminary findings demonstrate how consumers co-operate historical experience of dystopia for contemporary recreation. Capitalizing on the socio-material traces of communism enables an aestheticization process leading toward authentic self-identification.

ORCID iDs

Taştan, İrem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9893-9953 and Ozdamar Ertekin, Zeynep;