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Smrt ideologije i vaza sa plastičnim cvećem
The Death of Ideology and the Plastic Flowers Link

Author(s): Svetlana Slapšak
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Political history, Social history, Culture and social structure , Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Институтот за општествени и хуманистички науки – Скопје
Keywords: Ideology; Socialism; Ex-Yugoslavia; Europe; USA; Iraq; CNN; September 11th; Islamic culture; Interventionism; totalitarism;

Summary/Abstract: The worst 20th Century prophesies were based on the narrative superiority of totalitarian ideology, which can ill afford to manipulate, conceal and distort any discourse other than its own. What used to terrify us the most and give us a little perverse pleasure in predicting the horrors of all our negative utopias, was the mixing of words and power, ideology and the repression that inevitably springs from it.

  • Issue Year: 2/2003
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 13-20
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Macedonian