After 2010, a trend has developed on various websites and social networks which depicts Slavs with squatting, an everyday physical practice of spending time in public spaces in many cultures in Eastern countries, being an essential component of a Slav. As part of the trend, various internet communities and social practices have been formed, which have developed certain recurring elements and patterns of representation of Slavs and the Slavic way of life, centered on the representation of squatting and the squatting body. Some internet communities, especially on social networks (such as Facebook), are visited quite frequently, and participants come from both predominantly Slavic and predominantly non-Slavic countries. Based on the analysis of the Squatting Slavs In Tracksuits group on Facebook, the author analyzes the trend and poses the research question whether the depiction reproduces the representation of Slavs within the imaginary representation of Eastern Europe connected to the divide between the East and the West. In the theoretical part, he presents the body as a form of subject's situatedness in the world and in communication with it, conceptualization of body postures as cultural tehcniques of the body and the body as a signifier of a community; in the methodological part he presents the tools with which he analyzes the trend: structuralism, semiology and Lacanian psychoanalysis; lastly, he describes the imaginary representation of the East and Eastern Europe.
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