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Defund, Co-opt, Replace: How Authoritarians Reshape Culture (Frontlines) #3

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🎙️ Season 2 of This Authoritarian Life continues at another frontline: culture — where authoritarian power doesn’t just silence dissent, but reshapes the institutions that decide what gets staged, funded, and celebrated.

In this episode, we speak with Piotr Rudzki (dramaturg; formerly of the Polski Theater in Wrocław) and Kristóf Nagy (anthropologist; author of an ethnography of the Hungarian Academy of Arts) about how cultural worlds are reorganized under illiberal rule.

  • Why is defunding today’s most effective form of censorship?
  • How does co-optation work through grants and patronage?
  • What do terms like “culture war,” “cultural takeover,” and “hegemony” clarify—and what do they obscure?
  • And where can autonomy still be built: underground, inside institutions, or through collective organization?

🎧 To find out, tune into This Authoritarian Life, Season 2, Episode 3 — Defund, Co-opt, Replace: How Authoritarians Reshape Culture, with Kristóf Szombati and Erdem Evren.

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00:00:00Episode Teaser & Jingle
00:01:01Introduction: The Cultural Frontline
00:02:40Meet the Guests: Piotr & Kristóf
00:06:13The Polski Theater in Wrocław: Building a Public Stage
00:12:36The Takeover of the Polski Theater by Authoritarian Conservatives
00:19:03Short on Loyalists: The Cadre Bottleneck in Illiberal Hungary
00:23:14Is the goal a “New Man”? Two Takes on Culture as Engineering
00:34:29Governing Through Patronage: The Hungarian Academy of Arts as a Co-optation Machine
00:44:52Spaces of Autonomy and Solidarity
00:52:33Closing Reflections
00:57:05Acknowledgements

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