Silva Kalcic, Zagreb Calling: Emergence of a Post-socialist City (original) (raw)

Tomislav Pletenac wrote a book on the post-socialist, post-transitional and finally, post-earthquake Zagreb from the position of an ethnologist and cultural anthropologist exploring state/political strategies within Foucault’s concept of bio-power (1994). He is interested in how they directly impact the formation of the city. The book is an overview of the current state of Zagreb’s architectural heritage, issues of interpolation and contrasting interpolations, the phenomenon of “abolition” of urbanism as a legacy of the 19th century. The author’s intention is to critically evaluate the book’s subject, but also to raise awareness and educate the public, especially professionals, thus expanding the public’s perceptive horizon and critical awareness in the current era of extreme physical distancing and social isolation.