ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a critical view of how the Central European space is perceived, with the help of several illustrations from Czech popular culture. It argues that the anti-geopolitical nature of political thinking in the Czech environment, as identified by Drulak, was taken over by popular culture and turned into a metaphor of empty space at home. The territory of Czech Republic is thus an example of a signifier without a signified. Entropa illustrates a conscious ridiculing of stereotypes about national identities. It perfectly fits in the line of other works by Cerny that ironized big events and great individuals of Czech national history, like the inverted equestrian statue of Saint Wenceslaus or the Soviet tank painted pink in front of the military museum in Prague. Popular geopolitics seems to be a useful approach to analyze Czech political thinking about space, provided that the elite scientific and political sources were already dealt with elsewhere.
