{"product_id":"palace-of-culture-by-ania-walwicz-9781922186508","title":"Palace of Culture","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePalace of Culture\u003c\/em\u003e is a dream diary, leading the reader into a personal and surreal engagement with the bewildering complexity of contemporary popular culture. Like her previous work \u003cem\u003eRed Roses\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePalace\u003c\/em\u003e is a freewheeling work drawing the reader in to participate in its very construction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe layering of the oneiric on top of popular culture results in an intriguing interweaving of symbolic meanings—the notation and enactment of inner-states of feeling and being—with the arbitrary marketing decisions of our broader cultural stage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe language of \u003cem\u003ePalace of Culture\u003c\/em\u003e is not only the subject's medium, but a source of revelation itself, a phantasm. It is something that is dreamt by its author and its reader, in the palace, at four a.m.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Ania Walwicz's work has always moved across genres, modes and registers, bringing self-reflexivity and metapoetics as material presences into the scene of the production, staging the subject in process, the subject in progress...Inspired by the great fabulists like Kafka and Dostoevsky [she] reactivates the avant-garde traditions from Stein, Joyce, Schwitters through the multiple lenses of psychoanalysis.\" – Marion Campbell (from the Poet)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis leads me. I write dreams. The language of dreams. Configured.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFreud tells me. The interpretation of Dreams. \u003cem\u003eDie Traumbuche\u003c\/em\u003e. The interweaving of symbolic meaning. Self-analysis. This is my true diary. The unveiled, revealed autobiography. The undressing of the psychological process. \u003cem\u003eThe Bride Stripped Bare\u003c\/em\u003e. Notation and enactment of inner states of feeling\/being.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLanguage as revelation, a phantasm. You dream this. The palace at four a.m.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47597483196652,"sku":"9781922186508","price":57.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/5a953837a5ab5fd0a932da8d03e71a44.jpg?v=1777958687","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/palace-of-culture-by-ania-walwicz-9781922186508","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}