The Staszic Palace as Affective Heterotopia : New Category of Spatial Description

The book proposes a new category heterotopia of affect which builds upon Michel Foucault's typology. The Staszic Palace is a symbolic historical place in Warsaw, Poland, which the author foregrounds as an intersection of meanings that arise from the identity of the cultural space and its ideologically charged interpretations.

Autorentext

Aleksandra Wójtowicz is an assistant professor in the Department of the Anthropology of the Present Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Coordinator of the agreement of IBL PAN and the National Institute of Architecture and Town Planning, leader of the team established under the agreement of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Warsaw Scientific Society, member of the Municipal Naming Team of the capital city of Warsaw. Author of a few books.

Klappentext

The book proposes a new category - heterotopia of affect - which builds upon Michel Foucault's typology. The category refers to changes of the places that accumulate contents of ideological, historical, religious, and national character. The book tells the history of a very Polish edifice as well as its surrounding cultural milieu and the history-creating role of the scientific community. The author focuses on the Staszic Palace whose fate reveals how - at different times in history - it catalyzed activities in search of radical changes in the mental landscape of the Polish community.

Inhalt

Behind the Palace House of Polish Science, The Building Interior Between the Meeting Room and the Temple of Victory In front of the Palace Affective Heterotopia : About Methodology Interview for Biuletyn Polonistyczny