A novel conceptualization of the politics of walls and other surfaces by bringing together critical cultural and media theory and post-communist studies of urban space. What does it mean to examine post-communist politics through the prism of the material and semiotic transformations and modifications of surfaces? A rethinking of surfaces as dynamic and complex sites opens a path for a detailed study of their crucial role in the governing of post-communist urban space--but also of the forms of subversion that can be discerned through interventions on and with surfaces. The book explores a set of surfaces--Wall, Monument, Electricity Boxes, Memes, and Paving Brick--to investigate the kind of political engagement they enable and foreclose in post-communist Sofia, Bulgaria. The examination of each of these sites draws on an array of interconnected theoretical propositions, pertaining to surfaces' conceptualization as temporal, fictitious and relational objects engaged in the production