This is an anthology of researches of the international group of researchers, made on the basis of their project at the NIAS institute in The Netherlands in 2012, which critically deals with different social, political, ideological and cultural dimensions of the development of the states, created after the bloody collapse of socialist Yugoslavia in the nineties.
C.01 Editorial board of a foreign/international collection of papers/book
COBISS.SI-ID: 32825181The contribution arises from problematizing the concept of culture as one of the common mechanisms for the maintenance of social hierarchies and material inequality. This is a distinct group characteristic because it correlates with differences in gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, and therefore is not a matter of individual identity or choice. Therefore, a radical questioning of culture is needed, which has not been sufficiently successful so far, as it contributed predominantly to strengthening the concept of "radical difference", at the same time, it has intensified criticism of multiculturalism, which is supposed to be even more intra-separatist, and wrongly marked the cultural difference (or better diversity) as the main source of political instability.
B.06 Other
COBISS.SI-ID: 35464285The paper addresses the relation between the linguistic sign and economic value so that the specific tactile quality of commodity fetishism could be discerned. In order to do so it proceeds from Saussure’s definition of sign as value and correlate it with Marx’s own definition of value in relation to language, which in a symptomatic way repeats Hegel’s definition of the sign as spiritual pyramid. Thus, if the unconscious is structured as language as Lacan repeated all over again, then this paper addresses the issue of capitalist unconscious precisely by linking the linguistic sign with the economic value through the concept of touch as their common denominator in order to tackle the haptic materiality of contemporary commodity fetishism.
B.06 Other
COBISS.SI-ID: 35354717Aleš Črnič's lecture discussed lying as an anthropological fact that was relevant throughout history and remains relevant, especially in the contemporary times of post-truth and 'alternative facts'. A lie touches on diverse social subjects, from religious (creationism) to economic (myth of perpetual growth) phenomena. The lecturer also considered some mechanisms of lying such as linguistic distortion. A case in point is the infamous Slovenian barb wire ('technical barrier'). Linguistic and historical distortion tenaciously reproduce myths that fuel the culture of fear and neofascist populism
B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university
COBISS.SI-ID: 34903133The exhibition features iconic images from/of outer space from different historical periods. The images are accompanied by scientific and expert texts on "space sigh", exploring how our imagery of space is conditioned by symbolization and mediatization. The exhibition is an important contribution to the emergent field of cultural studies of outer space, and was edited by researcher N. Majsova.
F.28 Organising an exhibition
COBISS.SI-ID: 34005085