Publisher: Durieux

200 godina Friedricha Engelsa

Author(s): / Language(s): Croatian,Serbian

This anthology book is published on the occasion of the bicentennial of the birth of Friedrich Engels, an exceptional thinker and theorist of the revolution. Editors Maroje Višić and Miroslav Artić gathered renowned domestic and international scientists who tried to reevaluate Engels' works and his scientific contribution. The idea behind the book is to point out the everlasting value and significance of Engels’ revolutionary philosophy. Contributing authors offered analytical reading of Engels' ideas, addressing pressing issues in economics, politics, religion, feminism, ideology and in other segments of contemporary society. The papers in an anthology are organized under the chapters: The Reception of Engel’s Philosophy, Actuality of Engels Today with subchapters on working-class and precariat, peasantry as the subject of change, early Christianity as an inspiration; and the last chapter is Revalorization of Family and State. The first chapter tackles the questions if Engels was more than an interpreter of Marx or simply the first Marxist who contributed to the banalization of Marx. It then investigates reception of Engels’ philosophy in ex-Yugoslavia specifically and in philosophical theory in general. The second chapter demonstrates actuality and relevance of Engels today by discussing the topics of working-class and precariat, by making comparison between early industrial society and contemporary society and by tracking development of socialism from utopia to a science. Chapter also deals on the peasantry whose role as a subject of change is thoroughly problematized. Special part of the chapter is dedicated to the influence of the practice of early Christianity on the formation of Engels’ revolutionary idea and to what extent original Christian community served affected the development of Engels’ thought. Final chapter brings papers that, under new circumstances, re-examine the understanding of the state-family relation and their dynamic. This comprehensive anthology attempted to revalorize and appraise Engels’ own contribution to science and philosophy 200 years after his birth. For this it was necessary to “divorce” Engels from Marx so that the fallacy of statement that Engels was second violin to Marx becomes striking.Chapter one tackle the question of whetherEngels was more than an interpreter of Marx or simply the first Marxist to contribute to the banalization of Marx.= Engels' reception is then examined both in the former Yugoslavia and in philosophical theory in general.Special part of the chapter is dedicated to influence of the practice of early Christianity on the formation of Engels’ revolutionary idea. That is, to what extent the examples of the original Christian communities influenced the development of Engels' thought

Arhipelag suvremene filozofije

Author(s): Tonči Valentić / Language(s): Croatian

The Archipelago of Contemporary Philosophy consists of collected critical reviews and essays on 52 works by Croatian and European authors that have marked past two decades in philosophy. The book accurately and systematically monitors and critically registers the multiplicity and ramifications of various philosophical directions and intentions of the modern humanities. Tonči Valentić is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Textile Technology, Department of Fashion Design, University of Zagreb, where he teaches courses in Media Theory, Sociology of Culture, Semiotics of Fashion, and Cultural Anthropology. He obtained MA degree in philosophy and literature from Faculty of Humanities in Zagreb, MA degree in sociology and anthropology from CEU in Budapest and PhD in sociology from University of Ljubljana. His books include: Multiple Modernities (2006), Camera Absondita: Essays on Ontology of Photography (2013), Archipelago of Contemporary Philosophy (2018) and Media Construction of Balkanism (2021).

Crna limfa/zeleno srce: alternativni leksikon duše

Author(s): Željka Matijašević / Language(s): Croatian

Black Lymph/Green Heart: The Alternative Lexicon of Soul is a glossary of terms which the author deemed significant for today's collective and individual psychic condition. The selected entries have their definitions as in ordinary lexicons. However, the alternative lexicon selects the terms differently, and uses a different methodology of their treatment. In this lexicon, you will find apparently arbitrarily selected entries with inconsistently written definitions. But it is precisely with that subjective and ironic approach that the author reveals the characteristics of the listed concepts, which are important in some not-so-rare situations. The ones that concern our psychological welfare. This unscientific book, that parodies the scientific structure of a lexicon as such, reveals the functioning of narcissists, egomaniacs, psychopaths and sociopaths who have become a norm, instead of an exception. If you want to know what melancholy and femmes fatales have in common, or what is the nature of a relationship between pathocracy and a tram, The Alternative Lexicon of Soul will give you the answers and make you laugh at the same time. Željka Matijašević was born in 1968, in Zagreb. She graduated in Comparative Literature, and French Language and Literature at the Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She obtained her doctor's degree at the Trinity College of the Cambridge University. She is a full-professor at the Department of the Comparative Literature at the Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her main interests are psychoanalytic theory and applied psychoanalysis. She is an author of six scientific books: Lacan: ustrajnost dijalektike (2005), Strukturiranje nesvjesnog: Freud i Lacan (2006), Uvod u psihoanalizu: Edip, Hamlet, Jekyll/Hyde (2011), Stoljeće krhkog sebstva: psihoanaliza, društvo, kultura (2016), Drama, drama (2020), and The Borderline Culture (2021). She also authored one novel, Defences with the Taste of Death (2019), and a lexicon Black Lymph/Green Heart: The Alternative Lexicon of Soul (2017). She is a member of La Fondation Européenne pour la Psychanalyse and the Croatian Writers Society.

Dnevnik iz grada P.

Author(s): Nenad Popović / Language(s): Croatian

At the first sight, this book is a compilation of notes on private, political and social matters. However, it is far more than just that. The essays in the Diary form the City of P. tackle the signals of state poverty or, rather, state power that is barely noticed in Croatia; the books read only by a few in Croatia, the nearly unreal facts that are strange to almost nobody in Croatia. What does a microcosmos of a garbage bottles gatherer really look like? Where do the new highways lead to as they descend to the borders of Schengen Area, towards the unfortunate regions of the Balkans? How does a simple building demask the whole history of a former Austro-Hungarian war port? Finally, how did the Kajkavian dialect end up in the gutter, as a social caricature, during the language wars of the last 150 years? This diary, whose geographical determinant (a city by the sea), and a historical moment (the year of Croatia’s entrance into the EU) are a necessary context, is in fact unconventional anatomy of the reality that flows, thorough and encompassing at the same time. Publisher, translator, and writer Nenad Popović was born in Zagreb in 1950. He attended colleges in Zagreb and Bonn, and Freiburg with the scholarship Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. He graduated in German Language and Literature and South Slavic Languages and Literature from the Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. In 1980. he became an editor, and afterwards the head editor of the publishing house Graphical Institute of Croatia. In 1990. he co-founded the publishing house Durieux, one of the first independent private publishing houses in Croatia, where he worked as the head editor until 2013. In 1999. he participated in founding of the literary Group 99. In 2002 he became one of founders of the Croatian Writers’ Society, becoming its vice-president afterwards. Since 1978, he has occasionally written for newspapers, magazines and radio, and since 1985 for the media of German speaking countries (Manuskripte, Literatur und Kritik, Kulturaustausch, Frankfurter Rundschau, Die Zeit, Weltwoche, et al.). For theatre he translated such authors as Sternheim, Bruckner, Bernhard, Fassbinder among others. He also translated books by Erwin Piscator, Kazimir Malevič, Boris Kelemen, Benn Meyer-Wehlack, Tilla Durieux and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. During Bosnian wars, he translated articles by Bosnian writers (Karahasan, Lovrenović, Filipović, Jergović) for German newspapers and magazines. He published books A World in Shadow (2008), A Treatise on Population (2014), Diary from the City of P. (2017), and Living with Them (2021). For his work he received many awards and accolades: Premio '92 per il lavoro letterario from the Italian Cultural Institute in Zagreb (1992), The Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding (1999), and, with Freimut Duve, Bruno Kreisky Award (1999). He was also awarded the Hermann Kesten Medal by the German PEN Centre in 2000. The same year he became an honorary citizen of Sarajevo. He is a member of the following organisations: Croatian PEN Centre, Cap Anamur - German Emergency Doctors, Cologne; Journalisten helfen Journalisten, München; International Forum Bosnia, Sarajevo; Association of Literary Translators of Croatia. He lives in Pula.

Doba nasilja, doba straha: Vojnici-pljačkaši, seljaci-razbojnici i doseljenici-nasilnici u Istri XVII. i XVIII. stoljeća

Author(s): Miroslav Bertoša / Language(s): Croatian

The first part of the book shows the Uskok war (1615-1618), which was only seemingly a short historical bang. It was in fact an event whose consequences in the economic sphere were felt for decades, and in the mental structures of the consciousness of future generations - for centuries, even until today. Based on archival sources and published literature, the author shows how those tragic historical events between the 16th and 17th centuries left a deep and indestructible mark on the mentality of the Istrian man, a time when Croatian Venetian subjects (Benečani) and Croatian subjects of the Austrian Archduke (Kraljevci) identified with the feudal banners of their masters and under them attacked people of the same class and ethnicity. The second part deals with the world of the marginal - those people who have been disenfranchised by the European Ancien Régime and pushed to the margins of society. This world, once silenced, has become, at least in modern social historiography, one of the central contents of the study of the past. Bundles of court documents, which until recently the historian did not consider essential for interpreting the historical development of a society, became indispensable in the analysis of its structures. The "archives of silence" spoke about those marginalised who had been deprived of the right to speak by previous societies and their ideologized historiographies. A cruel world in which people become exiles and villains, where cruelty is born and where blood causes blood. The third part of this book, as far as the archival material allows, presents a meticulous reconstruction of the events related to the arrival of hajduk settlers in the Pula region and an analysis of the cause-and-effect relations that led to this events. Hajduk migration and the problems it caused are observed within the then historical situation in Istria, so some issues presented are not as closely related to the colonization of Hajduk, but directly or indirectly affected it. Miroslav Bertoša (1938) is a historian and long-term scientific advisor at the Institute of Historical and Social Sciences of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU), now a professor at the University of Juraj Dobrila in Pula. First Consul General of the Republic of Croatia in Trieste (1995-1998). Associate member of HAZU. He began publishing essays, articles and critiques in 1954, and since 1963 he has been researching modern Istrian history and Istrian anti-fascism, as well social, political, demographic and ethnic components of the Venetian part of Istria and the northern Adriatic area from the 16th to the 18th century. He is a connoisseur of contemporary historiography, and especially of movements in the avant-garde French Annales school. Alongside Robert Matijašić he was coeditor of the Istrian Encyclopedia (2005).

Doručak za Bič

Author(s): Mario Brkljačić / Language(s): Croatian

The short story collection Breakfast for Bitch tackles the lives of working-class men who drink, swear and talk in slang, sometimes showing their tender side. It is a ground for both bizarre events, such as swallowing one's dental prosthesis, and the ordinary routine made up of ironing clothes. The stories contain mostly the same characters living the same daily routine that becomes immanent to working-class people who cannot climb up on the social ladder. Whatever the matter, the stories are always witty, told with subdued humour and irony. Life and emotions of those from the margins, the underprivileged and insignificant, swell here, among the glasses of wine and beer. Mario Brkljačić was born in 1966 in Zagreb. He has published poetry and fiction in the magazines Godine nove, Libra Libera, Quorum, Republika, Treći trg, Vijenac and Zarez. With his collection of poems Look Me in the Eyes (2004) he was the winner of the Students Centre competition for the first book. He published books He Never Danced Pogo (2004), A Fly in the Soup (2005), and I Can't Look at Him Like That (2006). Brkljačić's name has become a synonym for the Croatian underground literature that tells the story of working-class people.

Dva doma. Hrvatska radna migracija u Njemačku kao transnacionalni fenomen

Author(s): Jasna Čapo / Language(s): Croatian

Der vorliegende Band analysiert Umstände und Folgen der kroatischen Arbeitsmigration nach Westdeutschland in den 60er und 70er Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts. Bekannt unter dem Begriff Gastarbeitermigration wurde diese Wanderung in der ersten Zeit als vorläufige Beschäftigung der vornehmlich jüngeren männlichen Population mit niedriger Berufsqualifikation realisiert, in der Folge entwickelte sie sich aber zu einem längerfristigen Verbleib sowie Nachzug ganzer Familien nach Deutschland. Das Buch enthält Kapitel über Migranten und ihre Nachkommen, die sogenannte transnationale Generation in Deutschland. Die Grundlage für das Buch lieferten die mit Kroaten in Deutschland geführten Gespräche in der Zeitspanne von 2002 bis 2017. Dabei werden Schlüsselthemen und Metaphern erörtert, die aus dem Leben der Kroaten im Aufnahmeland (damaliges Westdeutschland) und dem Herkunftsland (damaliges Jugoslawien, heute Kroatien und Bosnien und Herzegowina) entspringen, aber auch jene, die sich aus dem transnationalen sozialen, jenseits der staatlichen Grenzen geschaffenen Raum herleiten.

Ekofeminizam

Između ženskih i zelenih studija

Author(s): / Language(s): Croatian

Proceedings Ecofeminism: between women's and green studies, edited by Goran Đurđević and Suzana Marjanić (Durieux Publisher, Zagreb, 2020), consists of 40 texts from the humanities and social sciences (anthropology, journalism, political science, sociology, literary theory, science of education) and art (poetry and prose), written by 37 authors from Croatia, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, the United Kingdom and the United States. The starting point for edited book was workshop cycle on the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb organized with help of professor Drago Roksandić and there was created idea for book by Mirjana Grabovac, Karmen Ratković and Suzana Marjanić. Also, various colleagues such as Dražen Tončić and Mirta Maslać from Durieux, artist Kristina Pongrac and reviewers Ivica Bakota, Zlatko Bukač and Ana Stojanović have been an important part of this volume. The aims of the collection are to actualize ecofeminism and encourage critical reflection and analysis of long-term ecofeminism in Croatia and Southeast Europe; permeation of global and local approaches and knowledge transfer; openness to young authors. For these reasons, the book can be read on several levels: theoretical as a contribution to the knowledge of the theory of ecofeminism in the context of contemporary trends, socio-political as an analysis of social processes and structures, activist through the analytical perspective of activism of individual groups and actors in public, performative and political life. The final part of the volume are poems and this piece of book shows a holistic approach to ecofeminism and integration of scholarship, essays and art which is leading back to the roots and indigenous perspectives of life and community understood as integration.

Fantom slobode

Frequency: irregular and other / Country: Croatia

The rationale behinf the birth of Phantom of Freedom was to promote good literature, the literature that by its spirit and imagination goes against "borders", and boreders are, particularly here and today, rather too many. In an endless contrasting of national, geographic, ideological and linguistic differences, similarities are totally forgotten. The editorial board of the periodical is international, consisting of Ammiel Alcalay, Miljenko Jergovic, Igor Lasic, Semezdin Mehmedinovic, Jurica Pavicic, Nenad Popovic, Dusanka Profeta, Andrea Radak, Dalibor Simpraga and Slaven Tolj. In the first issue the works of thirteen Croatian conceptual artists has been published as well.

Istra, Jadran, Sredozemlje: Identiteti i imaginariji

Author(s): Miroslav Bertoša / Language(s): Croatian

Feuilletons, on this occasion arranged in several units, which the author published in the period from 1991 to 2002 in the Pula daily "Glas Istre". These feuilletons are a kind of reflection on the current - primarily Istrian - political everyday life, in which the author, looking at the world from the perspective of a historian, connects the present and the past. Or, as Bertoša himself describes them, they are: "improvised imaginations and fabrications of reality in confrontation with history, its facts and its interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary context."

Junak ili Čudovište

Author(s): Mirta Maslać / Language(s): Croatian

Junak ili čudovište, a novel by Mirta Maslać, is autobiographical in tone, but any stricter categorising would exclude an entire range of its completely heterogeneous elements. This is a diary of an illness and rehabilitation that functions also as a book about pop-culture and art, and about the way that motifs and narratives of the literary avant-garde, rock, and TV series shape our subjectivity. The novel that, besides familiar genre places, offers a merciless insight into the body as the uncanny locus of trauma, presenting the self-destruction without any romanticising. Despite the subdued black humour that colours this whole story, somebody will probably read it as a confession or testimony, a narrative shaping of one's own life in the perspective of existential crisis, maybe even death. But here, the struggle for authenticity is somewhere else, beyond the questions of truthfulness. Hero or Monster shows how, using a certain cultural repertoire, the self can »theatricalise« itself to itself, not for the sake of spectacle, but for the sake of self-reflection. That is the reason this novel is about a peculiar »taming of a monster«: a hard-laboured procedure of discursive creation of something that until now looked only as an unspeakable, unthinkable quantity, trauma generator, and pure danger. This taming is done by writing. Mirta Maslać was born in 1993, in Zagreb. She graduated in comparative literature and Croatian language and literature from the Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She published a theoretical study on the vocabulary in drag practices, and the novel Hero or Monster.

Kazalište krize

Author(s): Snježana Banović / Language(s): Croatian

The texts in this book analyze Croatian national theater policy from the 19th century to the present day pointing out the continuity of the ongoing crisis caused by the chronic lack of a strategy for its development and the lagging behind of Croatian theater production in relation to our neighbors and other theater models from the past. Also, some of the texts deal with the development of numerous political systems throughout history and their strong influence on the work of the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb, on festival culture and the positions of key figures from the theater's past and present. It also includes other theater personalities and brings several controversies related to currently important officials and administration holders who have decisively influenced or are influencing the orientation of Croatian cultural and theater policy. This is a book that continues the author's masterful book The State and Its Theater, and it equally articulates her scientific research abilities as well as live public participation and numerous quality contributions in polemics about the fate of Croatian theater today. The book is the result of serious research and a document of the author's professional and public engagement. Snježana Banović is a theatre director, writer and full professor at the Department of Production of the Academy for Dramatic Art in Zagreb. She holds a PhD in Performance Studies from the University of Zagreb. She published four books (State and its Theatre, Theatre of Crisis Official Exit and Theatre for People). Her main interest is in the area of cultural history, cultural management, national theatres, national festivals in the context of cultural policy in Croatia and the EU and most of her work is focused on these topics. She publishes reviews, studies and articles in journals, newspapers and on-line publications and is a member of various Croatian and international cultural associations. She was appointed two times as head of the Cultural Committee for Theatre at the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia and was Artistic manager for Drama of the Croatian National theatre in Zagreb. As a professor she has been a mentor to numerous students and was leading as well various research projects at the University of Zagreb.

Košnice

Author(s): Ružica Aščić / Language(s): Croatian

The dramatic trilogy Beehives by the award-winning author Ružica Aščić places in the centre of each play one family with their key problems. The protagonists want more from their life than just passively going with the flow, but their endeavours face the opposition of their community that pushes their desires in the area of unacceptable. Because of the circumstances the characters become apathetic, and too weak to change their situation. The atmosphere of emptiness and hopelessness, realised through apparently empty dialogues, emanates strongly from the texts, and wraps the reader like cobweb. The plays show a reverse gradation of the lack of willpower, and weakness, beginning with the first one, where the desire is clearly articulated but hits the wall repeatedly. In the second play, there is no desire anymore, just the sense of impossibility of realising any closeness. The third play is dominated by the general prohibition of love and humaneness. Ružica Aščić creates Antonioni-like atmosphere of desert where one has difficulty with finding a landmark, not to mention an oasis. Ružica Aščić was born in 1987. She published the short story collection The Good Days of Violence (2016). For the plays It Grows Inside of Me and Beehives she won the »Marin Držić« Award. She has published short stories in numerous Croatian magazines and one of them was included in the anthology Without Doors, Without Knocking: New Croatian Writers of Fiction.

Kritike, predgovori, razgovori, 1962. — 2011.

Author(s): Želimir Koščević / Language(s): Croatian

The activity of Želimir Koščević started at the beginning of ’60s, while he was still studying the History of Art at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. At the time, the Yugoslav society was, in the sphere of visual arts, firmly oriented towards progressive creative concepts. Croatia and Zagreb were the home of one of the liveliest art scenes in Europe. Koščević personally contributed to the scene as a curator of the Student Centre Gallery in the most important period of its activity, from 1966 to 1979.
There he promoted artistic practices and artists who would essentially mark the national and global art during the next period and inaugurated the curator practice that would become a norm in the sphere of contemporary art presentation. Although Koščević had a high level of theoretical knowledge, the incessant, active curator work and experience of managing the gallery, as well as the direct interaction with artists and audience, provided practical insights for his critical estimations of exhibitions and art phenomena.

Kruh, mašta & mast: Prizori i memorabilije o staroj Puli (1947.-1957.)

Author(s): Miroslav Bertoša / Language(s): Croatian

Bertoša's approach to the first decade of post-WWII Pula (1947–1957) is distinctive and different, fresh and original, intimate and rich in content, far from generally accepted stereotypes and imposed ideological lessons. Because the past, as the Istrian and Croatian historian points, belongs to everyone. Within these unusual pages, Miroslav Bertoša opens a field of research neglected in Croatian historiography. It is about the so-called "pesonal history" (ego-histoire), or "intellectual biography", well known in Western European cultural circles. It is a history experienced by an individual in the dramatic context of survival and carried within himself during lifetime. Time that has just passed no longer has a political "owner" and ideological "supervisor", it becomes a segment of the past reality that can be experienced and documented from a personal, individual, exceptional and unrepeatable angle. Miroslav Bertoša (1938) is a historian and long-term scientific advisor at the Institute of Historical and Social Sciences of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU), now a professor at the University of Juraj Dobrila in Pula. First Consul General of the Republic of Croatia in Trieste (1995-1998). Associate member of HAZU. He began publishing essays, articles and critiques in 1954, and since 1963 he has been researching modern Istrian history and Istrian anti-fascism, as well social, political, demographic and ethnic components of the Venetian part of Istria and the northern Adriatic area from the 16th to the 18th century. He is a connoisseur of contemporary historiography, and especially of movements in the avant-garde French Annales school. Alongside Robert Matijašić he was coeditor of the Istrian Encyclopedia (2005).

Līlā

Author(s): Iva Gjurkin / Language(s): Croatian

The translator and Indologist Iva Gjurkin wrote a novel Līlā, a story about the growing up of two friends. Gjurkin deftly meanders through their childhood and adolescence, touching upon the important points of maturing in order to speak about finding one's inner peace and content with one's self, through the Indian philosophy of play. The narration is steady and meticulous, without a lack or surplus. It is immersed in the social context of the late 20th century, and still focused on the important matter, with language sharp and precise. Gjurkin's novel is impeccably rounded, permeated by rich and deep Indian philosophy, with the relation of the absolute and the individual, so important for this novel, made available even to less curious readers. Iva Gjurkin graduated in Indian Languages and Literature, and Hungarian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. She published essays and literary works in the magazines Scopus, Književna smotra, and Fantom slobode. She translated theroetical and literary tekst for the magazine Libra libera, and the books The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature by Franco Moretti (2015), What is Iconoclah?, From Realpolitik to Dingpolitik – or How to Make Things Public, and Reset Modernity! by Bruno Latour (2017), and Pamphlets of the Stanford Literary Lab, by Franco Moretti et al. (2018).

Linije koje ti nazivaš rijekema

Author(s): Amir Alagić / Language(s): Croatian

The short story collection The Lines Which You Call Rivers contains both short stories and novellas that testify about Amir Alagić's true talent manifesting itself through authentic narratives, strong images, and daring, rich figurative expressions we have already had the chance to experience in his novels The Sacravenges and Hundred Years' Childhood. Alagić is a master narrator, his reality is tangible, odorous and visible, the events multi-layered and refined with symbolism. The twelve stories, that depict different periods and places, the old age and wasted youth, the devil, curse and madness, show us that Amir Alagić is an important name in our literature, and we should read his works. Amir Alagić was born in 1977, in Banja Luka. So far he has published the novels The Sacravenges (2016), Hundred Years' Childhood (2017), and Tunnels (2019), and the short story collections Under the Same Sky (2010), and The Lines Which You Call Rivers. He published short stories and poems in various literary magazines and anthologies. He wrote a screenply for the short feature film Toying, or a Broken Water Heater (2012). He lives in Pula.

Marx u digitalnom dobu. Dijalektički materijalizam na vratima tehnologije

Author(s): Katarina Peović / Language(s): Croatian

Marx in the Digital Age. Dialectical Materialism on the Gates of Technology is a book that questions the understanding of political emancipation with the help of new technologies. It asks how new technologies, especially new media, can contribute to the democratisation of society and emancipation of minority cultures. The book elaborates systematically and epistemologically on the question of emancipatory politics on the Internet, ideology and its reflection onto the new media problems, the changes in the structure and character of work in the age of cognitariat, and the understanding of the concept of »virtuality«. The author uses theoretical tools of many philosophers and theorists, such as Heidegger, Foucault, and Lacan, bridging the gap between classical philosophy and technology. The book is an eloquent elaboration of the contemporary techno–scientific, and politico-economical order, and offers a grounded new media theory from the perspective of the critique of the political economy. Katarina Peović is an assistant professor at the Department of Cultural Studies on the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka. She obtained her PhD at the Department of Comparative Literature on the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. She edited a collection of articles by the American theorist Hakim Bey, Contemporary Autonomous Zones and Other Texts (2003). In the year 2012, she published the book Media and Culture. Media Ideology after the Decentralisation. She published her works in the journals Crisis & Critique, Badiou Studies, Stasis, Književna smotra, Trípodos, and Synthesis Philosophica.

Napetice iskosa. Glazba u doba hi-fia

Author(s): Aleksandar Mihalyi / Language(s): Croatian

Askance Thrillers is a voluminous collection of texts on music written by the radio host and editor Aleksandar Mihalyi. Why Askance Thrillers? Because the music scene is so divergent (judging by theoretical texts and the heterogeneity in style and genre), that it blocks an easy access to its listeners, except for an exclusive access to individual groups. Simply put - each of the existing groups has its theoretical logistics that is dedicated to themselves, and that ignores the existence of others. Inside the groups and especially between them, there is a tension that is being hidden or heightened. If there was no intensive, strong and diverse music or audio creative scene behind this (with numerous participants and manifestations), these texts would not exist. The disunity is a consequence of the lack of a dominant creative model, and, paradoxically, that is the reason we have such a rich and pluralistic scene. How good it is and what is good about it is left without clear and unambiguous answer. The scale of value is established inside the borders of a group or an ism. The book shows the exceptional wealth offered by the contemporary music scene in its possible development. Never in the history has an individual been offered such a divergent scene of the contemporary music: Bach’s Mass in B Minor with Ton Koopman, Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass, directed by Robert Wilson and performed by his ensemble, In vain by Georg Friedrich Haas performed by Klangforum from Vienna or vocal performances of Ami Yoshida. What they have in common is the shock of the new or a dedication of excellent musicians, and reaching the cultural, interpretational and perceptive limits. We are contemporaries with all that! This book is also a kind of a Baedeker that will help you get an insight into what is going on, and who are the protagonists. Lastly, it will provide recommendations on what to choose to listen, watch and read among individual types of expression. The book is written to affirm the creation of order and quicker access to today’s music scene. Even the confusion of terms is too big, and restoring the order is Sisyphean task. For example, if you read that a composer belongs to eclecticism, postmodernism, polystylism, somewhat to Russian mysticism, spiritual minimalism, and that he has all the familiar characteristics of his generation, what do you expect to hear? This book offers an essential survey of the contemporary recorded music from early polyphony to laptop music. It is a guide for today’s music scene. Aleksandar Mihalyi was born in 1949, in Zagreb. He is a long-time editor of the discophilic magazine WAM. For twelve years he worked as a host and an editor of radio shows dedicated to the contemporary music on the Croatian Radio's Third Programme.