Umetniška kritika in zgodovina
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Današnje »subverzivne«, družbeno angažirane in politično-kritične predstave in performansi so, vsaj v lokalnem kulturnem okolju, v veliki meri zgodovinsko nesinhronizirani/e z objekti svoje kritike – če vzamemo za primer trenutno zelo popularno predstavo Male zamrznjene podobe, ki kritizira objektifikacijo žensk v pornografiji, spolne sterotipe in potrošniško družbo ter se pri tem obnaša, kot da gre za družbene probleme, ki so relevantni danes, nas že na prvi pogled zbode v oko očitna anahronističnost tako stila kot objektov kritike.
Materializem danes
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Vabljeni na drugo prvomajsko šolo v so-organizaciji DPU! Šola bo na Ohridu v Makedoniji v začetku maja, ostale tehnične in formalne podrobnosti bodo znane v nekaj dneh. Za zdaj pa si lahko preberete spremno pismo.
Marks Vs Prudon - "sva ova demokratija mi se gadi"
. 150 let po nastanku Marxove Grundrisse, se Delavsko-punkerska univerza in partnerske organizacije vračamo k že nekoliko pozabljeni umetnosti kritike politične ekonomije.
Rad će se kretati u prevashodno u sferi 19-vekovne socijalne (u najširem smislu) teorije, posebno ističući, slobodno rečeno, dijalog između Prudona i Marksa. Prema tome, u žiži interesa je tzv. „mladi Marks“, izvesni elementi Prudonove političke teorije, a pre svega je odlučujući aspekt „mobilizacije“ ova dva autora u „dnevno političkim“ pitanjima toga doba: sučeljavajući neke njihove predloge konkretnih političkih akcija u vremenu nakon 1848. Posebno ćemo istaći, kao ilustraciju, razliku u shvatanjima ova dva mislioca povodom revolucione prakse, te konkretnije- odnosa socijalne i političke revolucije.
Uneventment of history - the case of Yugoslavia
. Za znanost zgodovine ta ne pomeni le preteklosti, temveč tudi in predvsem sedanjost – sedanjost, ki jo razumemo kot množico procesov in bojev v danem (preteklem ali sedanjem) trenutku. Historični materializem tako prinaša dokumente, poročila, analize in druge tekste, ki na različne načine pišejo materialistično zgodovino.
"Uneventment of history" was a low budget international conference on epistemology of historiography and the role and function of history in contemporary political and ideological struggles in the countries of ex-Yugoslavia and elsewhere.
The genesis of mainstream historiography of Yugoslavia in France: "Media intellectuals" at war in the 90's
. Za znanost zgodovine ta ne pomeni le preteklosti, temveč tudi in predvsem sedanjost – sedanjost, ki jo razumemo kot množico procesov in bojev v danem (preteklem ali sedanjem) trenutku. Historični materializem tako prinaša dokumente, poročila, analize in druge tekste, ki na različne načine pišejo materialistično zgodovino.
The armed conflicts that begun with the dismembering of socialist Yugoslavia gave rise to many reactions and mobilizations amongst French intellectuals all through the 1990's.
Despite the diversity of viewpoints, the public expression on Yugoslav issues was monopolized by a group of "media intellectuals", composed of journalists, political essayists, moralists, the most active being philosophers belonging to the self-proclaimed or media-defined group of »New Philosophers«. At the same time, experts and specialists on Yugoslavia (historians, economists, etc) were marginalized, or sometimes even excluded from the public debate.
"Immediate history" in socio-economic research in/after the cold war: the Yugoslav issue
. Za znanost zgodovine ta ne pomeni le preteklosti, temveč tudi in predvsem sedanjost – sedanjost, ki jo razumemo kot množico procesov in bojev v danem (preteklem ali sedanjem) trenutku. Historični materializem tako prinaša dokumente, poročila, analize in druge tekste, ki na različne načine pišejo materialistično zgodovino.
I will make explicit the methodological criterions of my research on the Yugoslav titoist economic reforms and the recent systemic transformations.
Those criterions deal with conflicting approaches of "scientificity" in economy – and more broadly in social sciences: they raise the question of "objective laws" versus conflicting choices both in economy and history; but also the question of autonomy versus organic links between economy, sociology, history and political sciences; and, finally, the question of the viewpoint and commitment of the researcher him/herself...
Anti-fascism between two deaths: Bosnian intellectual elite and its civic-liberal revisionism
. Za znanost zgodovine ta ne pomeni le preteklosti, temveč tudi in predvsem sedanjost – sedanjost, ki jo razumemo kot množico procesov in bojev v danem (preteklem ali sedanjem) trenutku. Historični materializem tako prinaša dokumente, poročila, analize in druge tekste, ki na različne načine pišejo materialistično zgodovino.
From the perspective of the majority of benevolent Western observers, the main antagonism that characterizes post-socialist Bosnia and Herzegovina is that between the antidemocratic ethno-nationalists and their democratic civic critics. The arena of historical science and its institutions is one of the most picturesque domains wherein this antagonism can easily be detected: ethno-nationalist historians, prone to misuse the past events in order to recreate the history of their individual ethnic groups (within a wider nationalist project of the reinvention of ethnic tradition), are confronted by the "civic" historians who insist that history must not be ideologically "contaminated", but should be seen as an unibased sphere of objective knowledge.
"Truth and reconciliation" as historical revisionism
. Za znanost zgodovine ta ne pomeni le preteklosti, temveč tudi in predvsem sedanjost – sedanjost, ki jo razumemo kot množico procesov in bojev v danem (preteklem ali sedanjem) trenutku. Historični materializem tako prinaša dokumente, poročila, analize in druge tekste, ki na različne načine pišejo materialistično zgodovino.
According to today’s liberal-democratic agenda, the process of "Truth and Reconciliation" (T&R) seems to be the most desirable way of dealing with the historical legacy of wars and bloodshed in ex-Yugoslavia. In order to secure the lasting peace and prosperity in the region it is necessary to reach the objective truth about the painful reality of the wars, to come to a basic consensus on "what really has happened". Only in this way it might be possible to overcome conflicting and particular visions of any respective national group.
Nothing took place but the place: Đinđić's Yugoslavia
. Za znanost zgodovine ta ne pomeni le preteklosti, temveč tudi in predvsem sedanjost – sedanjost, ki jo razumemo kot množico procesov in bojev v danem (preteklem ali sedanjem) trenutku. Historični materializem tako prinaša dokumente, poročila, analize in druge tekste, ki na različne načine pišejo materialistično zgodovino.
Taking an excursion from the strict domain of historiography, I will try to show how the problem of uneventment figures in another theoretical field, that of political philosophy. One of the exemplary moments here, at least in what concerns the history of socialist Yugoslavia, is Zoran Đinđić's Yugoslavia as an Unfinished State. Đinđić's analysis is, undoubtedly, a veritable sign of the times – being one of many scientific and philosophical works that were produced in response to the crisis that Yugoslavia was experiencing in the 1980s. At the same time, however, this attempt at a philosophical panacea is also a remarkable example of historical, or, as we can say with Badiou, evental revisionism.
Slovene historians on the destruction of Yugoslav federation
. Za znanost zgodovine ta ne pomeni le preteklosti, temveč tudi in predvsem sedanjost – sedanjost, ki jo razumemo kot množico procesov in bojev v danem (preteklem ali sedanjem) trenutku. Historični materializem tako prinaša dokumente, poročila, analize in druge tekste, ki na različne načine pišejo materialistično zgodovino.
The contribution will analyse how three prominent Slovene historians present the destruction of Yugoslav federation. Two models appear: 1. secular genesis of the Balkan nations; 2. sequence of political arrangements, each justified on its own terms. The two models can roughly be assimilated to Foucault's distinction between the (pre-modern) "Roman" (2) and the (early modern) "biblical" (1) type of historiography.
On the significance of the Communist Party of Slovenia during the second world war and its aftermath
. Za znanost zgodovine ta ne pomeni le preteklosti, temveč tudi in predvsem sedanjost – sedanjost, ki jo razumemo kot množico procesov in bojev v danem (preteklem ali sedanjem) trenutku. Historični materializem tako prinaša dokumente, poročila, analize in druge tekste, ki na različne načine pišejo materialistično zgodovino.
For the last two decades we have been witnessing an immense debate on the character of the Second World War in Slovenia which usually gets even more intensified each time when there are media reports on fresh discoveries of (mass) graves containing the remains of anti–partisan fighters. Every time these new discoveries mobilize all spheres in or out of the establishment, from journalists to political parties, artists, war veterans, survived victims and their relatives, clerics and theologians, philosophers, professional historians etc.
Relativization of the author (historian) as a premise of post-modern historiography in Slovenia after 2000
. Za znanost zgodovine ta ne pomeni le preteklosti, temveč tudi in predvsem sedanjost – sedanjost, ki jo razumemo kot množico procesov in bojev v danem (preteklem ali sedanjem) trenutku. Historični materializem tako prinaša dokumente, poročila, analize in druge tekste, ki na različne načine pišejo materialistično zgodovino.
Giovanni Levi (born in 1954), internationally renowned microhistorian, is a representative of so-called engaged historiography that demands the separation of history from ideology and is one of the defining frameworks of the post-modern division of historiography. For Levi, one of the main problems of modern historiography is the authoritative style of interpretation. Historians relate narratives as if they were speaking about some objective reality, rarely mentioning the painstaking research process which would lend to their conclusions an air of hypothesis, non-conclusiveness or doubt.
Whitened histories, global colours
. Za znanost zgodovine ta ne pomeni le preteklosti, temveč tudi in predvsem sedanjost – sedanjost, ki jo razumemo kot množico procesov in bojev v danem (preteklem ali sedanjem) trenutku. Historični materializem tako prinaša dokumente, poročila, analize in druge tekste, ki na različne načine pišejo materialistično zgodovino.
Much of conventional social science regularly endows the West, and its key symbol, ‘Europe’, with lofty, indeed supposedly unsurpassable, moral qualities. Empiricist, extreme-idiographic modes of intellectual production—forms of knowledge that present themselves as transparent (i.e., objective and, hence, “scientific”)—are particularly characteristic of western scholarship, because maintaining the stability of such transparency claims requires a power differential in favour of the position from which the supposedly transparent narrator speaks. In contrast, the eastern-south-eastern half of geographical Europe is routinely left out of, tacked on to, or marginalised within, this distinguished “location,” posing a particular set of challenges to the politics of history written from this part of the world.
We were China's guests: intimate internationalism and histories of the socialist self
. Za znanost zgodovine ta ne pomeni le preteklosti, temveč tudi in predvsem sedanjost – sedanjost, ki jo razumemo kot množico procesov in bojev v danem (preteklem ali sedanjem) trenutku. Historični materializem tako prinaša dokumente, poročila, analize in druge tekste, ki na različne načine pišejo materialistično zgodovino.
The Performing Arts Ensemble of the Hungarian People's Army left Budapest on 7 September, 1956, for a three-and-a-half-month tour of the People's Republic of China. The travelling party consisted of a symphonic orchestra, a men's choir and a folk-dance group (the latter including its own band), a number of vocal and instrumental soloists and a few political officers. Covering the trip was a small group of Hungarian cinematographers led by Jancsó Miklós.
Revisionism in historiography: bette noire or ugly duckling?
. Za znanost zgodovine ta ne pomeni le preteklosti, temveč tudi in predvsem sedanjost – sedanjost, ki jo razumemo kot množico procesov in bojev v danem (preteklem ali sedanjem) trenutku. Historični materializem tako prinaša dokumente, poročila, analize in druge tekste, ki na različne načine pišejo materialistično zgodovino.
While history has been subject to revision since times immemorial, the negative meaning of the term "revisionism" gained currency mainly in the years after World War Two. After all, no rational person today would pronounce Theodor Mommsen's Römische Geschichte as a definitive and non-ideological representation of the Roman era. Revisionism has been thus particularly connected to the denial of the Holocaust and the reinterpretation of the Nazi period of German history.
Lenin dancing on the snow: periodisation against history
. Za znanost zgodovine ta ne pomeni le preteklosti, temveč tudi in predvsem sedanjost – sedanjost, ki jo razumemo kot množico procesov in bojev v danem (preteklem ali sedanjem) trenutku. Historični materializem tako prinaša dokumente, poročila, analize in druge tekste, ki na različne načine pišejo materialistično zgodovino.
Aiming to salvage the subversive and emancipatory nucleus of the dialectic, Alain Badiou’s theory of the subject has consistently worked against a vision of History as full, legible meaning for the sake of an internal, subjective and discontinuous grasp of the periodisation of political ‘sequences’. In this talk, I will examine the theoretical movement that leads Badiou to dislocate the dialectics of history and historicity of the dialectic, generating a comprehension of political time that is no longer bound to an ordered matrix of expression and development.