PLAYGROUNDS AND BATTLEFIELDS CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES OF SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT Edited by Francisco Martínez and Klemen Slabina 9 789985 587744 HUMANIORA This unexpected book takes a look at the contemporary urban capitalist society in its restlessness, instabilities and precarious life-forms. The authors go out of their disciplinary boundaries to find explanation for complex phenomena, combining in a fresh and clever way diverse professional fields. In several cases it prefers a sideways look rather than a confrontational one; a strategy that turns out to be rather constructive. We could categorise this book under the label of critical spatial theory: critical, in that it aims toward not only an explanation but also real change; spatial in that it sees contemporary processes carefully embedded in the midst of crisscrossing trajectories, local simultaneities and human becomings. Prof. Andres Kurg Estonian Academy of Arts This book allows the reader to access to topographies of change. The image of the playground is very accurate and related to multiple typologies of resistance in the actual crisis. It’s not only Occupy-movements in the entire world, but the way in which societies deal with their pasts—and their futures. This is the other side of the book: battlefields. Here the authors not only try to explain what their view of a playground is but they are proposing how to use this concept for accessing the rituality of everyday life in a post-shock global society as ours. Prof. José Maria Faraldo Complutense University of Madrid QUESTIUM COMPERATUMVE GIGANTUM HUMERIS Sarjas „Acta Universitatis Tallinnensis. Humaniora” varem ilmunud: • Олеся Лагашина, Марк Алданов и Лев Толстой: к проблеме рецепции • Testo e Metodo. Prospettive teoriche sulla letteratura italiana. A cura di Daniele Monticelli e Licia Taverna • Пограничные феномены культуры: Перевод. Диалог. Семиосфера. Материалы Первых Лотмановских дней в Таллиннском университете • Сурен Золян, Михаил Лотман. Исследования в области семантической поэтики акмеизма • Культура русской диаспоры: Эмиграция и мифы. Сборник статей • Случайность и непред- сказуемость в истории культуры. Материалы Вторых Лотмановских дней в Таллиннском университете • Tiina Kala, Jutlustajad ja hingede päästjad: Dominiiklaste ordu ja Tallinna Püha Katariina konvent • Русский язык сегодня: Aктуальные вопросы теории и их методическая интерпретация ACTA Universitatis Tallinnensis ACTA Universitatis Tallinnensis On cover: Emeli Theander, Mary Go Round EDITORS: Francisco Martínez Klemen Slabina FOREWORD: Mihhail Lotman AUTHORS: Dita Bezdičková Alastair Bonnett Marcos Farias-Ferreira Manuel Fernández García Tom Frost Patricia García Espín Helena Holgersson Sean Homer Ehti Järv Tarmo Jüristo Flo Kasearu Siobhan Kattago Patrick Laviolette Francisco Martínez Madli Maruste Kristina Norman Benjamin Noys Oleg Pachenkov Jaanika Puusalu Pille Runnel Kevin Ryan Klemen Slabina Alessandro Testa Emeli Theander Anne Vatén Lilia Voronkova PLAYGROUNDS AND BATTLEFIELDS CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES OF SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT