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Cinema And Biopolitics07.11.2026 · 20 min
Art-Life Balance, or Utopia No More: Staging the Biopolitical in “DAU”
DAU does not simply reconstruct the Soviet past: it stages the extraction of life itself. Julia Lezhnina examines how participation becomes production and asks whether an outside remains possible.
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