Memories of Development: Global Media After State Socialism

abstract: Amid ongoing debates about globalization, the postsocialist former Second World has largely receded from view, its significance confined to its disappearance or to its status as prehistory. I argue that introducing postsocialism and the former Second World as a framework disrupts and complicates discourses of the global that inform much thinking about contemporary film and media. Seeking a materialist methodology that can account for the postsocialist world, I offer the Chto Delat? group's intermedial art installation titled Otritsanie otritsaniya ( The Negation of Negation , 2003) as a case study for understanding postsocialist transformation and the uneven development that underwrites it.