(De)historizacija u toku Socrealizam, kapitalistička modernost i autokolonijalizam u bivšoj Jugoslaviji
(De)historicization in Progress Socialist Realism, Capitalist Modernity and Autocolonialism in ex-Yugoslavia

Summary/Abstract: An exhibition titled Restoration in Progress that was organized by the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2013 marked the beginning of a wider project called “Collection by Collection,” which seeks to renovate and modernize the depot of the museum. The first phase of the Restoration in Progress project was the restoration of portraits of Yugoslavian People’s heroes from the World War 2, whose emergence in the current historical moment offered a possibility of rearticulating a number of cultural, ideological and political principles on the basis of which contemporary capitalism reproduces. Although paradigmatic public imaginary in ex-Yugoslavia deems that capitalism in “full capacity” still is not applied in the region, this project appears in a historical moment in which capitalism as institutional, economic, ideological and colonial relation of dominance is already and fully installed. Despite the fact that various, Western and non-Western, geopolitical influences interlace in ex-Yugoslavia, that set of principles that fundamentally dictate the organization of political rule and social differentiation originated in the epistemological normative of the First World of capital and its modernity. In that sense, the emergence of the portraits from the register of socialist realism – that evoke socialist history, socialist modernity and the role of ideology in the subjectivisation of the state and society – can actually be seen as a form of sensibilization of critical positions aimed against the imperial tendencies of the First World, global capitalism as the power system and its (auto)colonial matrices as well as against capitalist modernity in general.

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