Польская хонтология. Вещи и люди в годы переходного периода by Olga Drenda

Вещи и люди в годы переходного периода

An evocative study of the everyday “ghosts” of the late-socialist-to-capitalist transition, tracing how consumer goods, advertisements, interiors, kiosks, hand-painted signs, VHS culture, and DIY ingenuity shaped collective imagination in the 1980s–1990s. Blending essays, reportage, and archival images, it treats material culture as a repository of memory and desire. The result is a portrait of a haunted modernity in which discarded objects and improvised aesthetics reveal the anxieties, aspirations, and contradictions of the era.