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Dr Michal Murawski聽has launched a new book this week ''听聽The Palace of Culture and Science is a massive Stalinist skyscraper "gifted" to Warsaw by the Soviet Union in 1955. Today - three decades after the fall of communism - locals frame the Palace鈥檚 undying visual, symbolic, and functional prominence in the capitalist city as a sort of 鈥渙bsession鈥�: a 鈥淧alace of Culture complex鈥�. Micha艂 Murawski traces the powerful impact exerted by the Palace - and its titular 鈥渃omplex鈥� - on twenty-first-century Warsaw: on its architectural and urban landscape; on its political, ideological, and cultural lives; and on the bodies, minds and affects of its inhabitants.聽Palace Complex聽explores the many factors that allow Warsaw鈥檚 Palace to endure as a still-socialist building in a post-socialist city.

Micha艂 Murawski聽is an anthropologist of architecture and art based at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, 果冻影院, where he is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Critical Area Studies. His work focuses on the complex social lives of monumental buildings and on the architecture and planning of East European communism. He is especially interested in the powerful - and subversive - impacts that communist-era architectures, infrastructures and aesthetics continue to exert on the capitalist cities of the twenty-first century.

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