Interrogation machine : Laibach and NSK / Alexei Monroe.
Material type: TextSeries: Short circuitsPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: xv, 313 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0262633159
- 9780262633154
- 973.04924 22
- NX571.S56 M66 2005
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Includes index.
"NSK is considered by many to be the last true avant-garde of the twentieth century and the most consistently challenging artistic force in Eastern Europe today. The acronym refers to Neue Slowenische Kunst, a Slovene collective that emerged in the wake of Tito's death and was shaped by the breakup of Yugoslavia. Its complex and disturbing work - in fields including experimental music and theater, painting, philosophy, writing, performance, and design - has an international following but a powerful and specific cultural context. Within the NSK organization are a number of divisions, the best-known of which is Laibach, an alternative music group known for its blending of popular culture with subversive politics, high art with underground provocation - reflecting the political and cultural chaos of its time." "In Interrogation Machine, Alexei Monroe offers the first critical appraisal of the entire NSK phenomenon, from its elaborate organizational structure and its internal logics to its controversial public actions. The result is a fascinating portrait not only of NSK but of the complex political and cultural context within which it operates. Monroe analyzes the paradoxes, perplexities, and traumas of NSK's work at its deepest levels. His investigation of the relationships between conceptual content, stylistic method, and ideological subtext demonstrates the relevance of NSK in general and Laibach in particular to current debates about culture, power, war, politics, globalization, the marketplace, and life itself."--BOOK JACKET.
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