Srbija u kontinuitetu
Serbia in continuity

Author(s): Dejan Ilić
Subject(s): Politics, Education, Communication studies
Published by: Peščanik NVO
Summary/Abstract: This is a selection of texts that Dejan Ilić wrote for the Peščanika website, from the first: "Does Belgrade need Beopolis" in January 2010, to the last one in the book, which we published on the website in February this year. Since 2014, he has been writing two articles a week for Peščanik. He does this in his free time, and his real job is publishing terribly clever books at the Fabrika knjiga publishing house. Over the years, he vouched for us with his authors and translators, so some of them now write and translate for Peščanik. This book is our attempt to thank him for all that. But it will not go smoothly, because Dejan considers his texts on daily politics, and so are the majority in this book, as transient records for one-time use. Again, it seems to us that free and non-ideological speech about politics is the greatest contribution to the progress of a community. And that Dejan's texts are the best examples of that speech, which is very rare in the Balkans. They ask the reader questions and engage him in conversation. As they are read, they are heard, like persistent machines for the production of meaning. The book is divided into three parts. The first two take us chronologically through various aspects of the senselessness of Vučić's rule, through all its stupidity, thievery and cruelty. There are also some excellent articles on transitional justice. In the third part, texts about publishing and bookstores, cultural policies, plagiarized doctorates and Dejan's obsessive topic - education, are singled out.

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