PostAmeriKa Story

PostAmerika *

My Books:

The title. Why "PostAmeriKa"? Well, I struggled with the sense of deja vue (at first, in the eighties). I didn't understand why I do I see so many "communist" features in American mass culture. The sport, the faces of those "simple" American heroes (like in USSR, where any intellegent face would never make it to the TV screen). After the election of Clinton I had to accept it, the postmodern stage of America. What is "postmodern"? I had my own sense of it even before I read the postmodernists -- the Soviet Union experience was the most obvious (because it was primitive) form of POMO.

I suspected all the consequences of the communist environment (even if it's a soft communism, American kind). The end of real history, family and so on. Nevertheless, I thought that I am blessed (since I knew the secrets of the beast) and this "end of family" is not about my family.

I was wrong. Two years later I am still in a state of disbelief. I do not want to accept that Y2K...

So, I would be wrestling with the plot in order to tell my story. Yes, yes, a love story.

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Plot

Anti-Oedipus Sophocles.05 *

Summary

If you read Plot Page, you understand why I need "Story Page" -- to help myself to focus on WHY, not WHAT took place in my life.

Questions

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PA Story

Story is always bigger that a plot. The bigger, the better. Most of the "theory" texts are the parts of the story, not the plot.
Today private life is epic. This is how I see my own life. Or yours. But I have to write about my life. Not the whole life, only about my American life...
Here is what I have as the outline right now:
PostAmerica
Title
Contents
Acknowledgement
Intro
Preface
Prologue
WebIntro
Part I. The Outside
1980: NYC
1. Alien: Italy
2. American: Francis
3. America: 13th St. NYU
4. CultArt: Mafia
5. Crowds: NJ
6. People: Taxi & Gallery
1984: Jerusalem & Sasha
Part II. The Surface
1986: Virginia -- Alexey-Tafari
1989: Alaska
1. Academia: Hollins
2. Communism: House
3. Rights: Citizenship
4. Prison: Move to AK
5. Unabomber: Dept.
Part III.Skin Deep
1992: Russia
1995: Africa
2000: The End
1. Semiotics of Politics: RAT
2. Slavery: RE Agent
3. Foucault: Market
4. Last Dialogue: Big Mac
5. War: Web
6. Souls: Goodbye
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Notes
Cuts
References
Bibliography
List
Links
Index
Appendix
Cover
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