Pitanja o političkom, politici i politizaciji kulture
Thoughts on Political, Policy and Politicization of Culture
Author(s): Miško ŠuvakovićSubject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: RES PUBLICA
Keywords: cultural policy; cultural identity; politicization of culture; culture;
Summary/Abstract: Becoming Europe, or How to Recognize our Place between the Earth and the Sky I wish I could escape the bottle, like the fly trained by Ludwig Wittgenstein in his Philosophical Investigations, but I'm afraid that, by leaving "my" bottle, I will find myself in another, bigger or smaller, bottle, that will again be mine and for me, for us and for other potential "lives". I will start from "hard" theorization of certain important "policy" concepts.1 A policy is a set of practices and respective institutions through which human coexistence, usually called "the society", is realized. Political is the name for a multitude of antagonisms through which, I suppose, human society is practiced and defined. Politicization identifies various theoretical-analytical-critical practices that identify, explain and interpret different, often incomparable, historical or geographical, social or cultural phenomena as functions of antagonisms in which human society is lived and defined. Cultural policy, in that context of thought on politics, political and politicization, signifies three different - though not unrelated - social practices of exercising culture...
Journal: Republika
- Issue Year: XX/2008
- Issue No: 428-429
- Page Count: 3
- Language: Serbian