V knjigi so zbrane raznolike zgodbe iz jugoslovanske industrijske, vsakodnevne, mitske, popkulturne preteklosti in dediščine. A vendarle, te zgodbe, ki rastejo iz socialistične preteklosti, so zgodbe reči, ki imajo pomembno mesto tukaj in sedaj. Avtorji s pomočjo junakov in junakinj svojih esejev premišljujejo o dramatičnih in pomembnih spremembah, o preoblikovanjih vsakdanjih, kulturnih, političnih, ekonomskih in afektivnih svetovih na območju nekdanje Jugoslavije. Prvi natis je dobil nagrado za najbolje oblikovano knjigo na 32. Slovenskem knjižnem sejmu (2016) v kategoriji znanstvene in stvarne literature (Tanja Radež).

During the transition in the 1990s, the region of former Yugoslavia saw a growing need to find new spaces for cultural production and establish closer international connections as well as maintain the regional ones. Changes in legislation brought about a transformation of the concept of artistic work. The utopianism of art collectives was replaced by the pragmatism and flexibility of associations and private institutes largely dependent on public funds and international donations. Artists became producers, and their survival and that of cultural workers became dependent on the duration of individual projects, which contributed to the growing number of precarious workers. Today, as the precariousness of work only increases, the significance of these changes needs to be reflected upon, also in terms of whether they precipitated the need for horizontal connections and rethinking the legacy of independent organizations of the 1990s.