"Pobuna označitelja": suvremena radijacija pojma bricolage

Author(s): Ines Prica / Language(s): Croatian / Publication Year: 0

In this paper the concept of bricolage is applied to the paradoxical contexts of transitory societies using the translation of general theoretical concepts to those politically recognizable. On the one hand, notions of intersubjectivity, improvisation and self-organisation suggest social functioning based on the principles of free market, management and self-government; while on the other, common understanding of transition as the 'application of democracy ' according to a model, introduces radically different background of 'bricolage' as non-inventiveness, imitation, fragmentary connection and 'irrational mentality'.

A strawberry, an animal cry and a human subject: Where existential semiotics, biosemiotics and relational metaphysics seem to meet one another

Author(s): Katarzyna Machtyl / Language(s): English / Issue: 3-4/2019

The article discusses some semiotic approaches to the relation between nature and culture. Starting with outlining the structuralistic approach to this issue, especially the ideas of Juri Lotman and Algirdas Julien Greimas, the author finds parallels between different views on the relation between the natural world and human beings. First, the juxtaposition of Eero Tarasti’s existential semiotics with selected concepts of biosemiotics is discussed. The following part of the paper is dedicated to Bruno Latour’s ideas on nature–culture relation, hybrids and mediations. Then the author refers to Lotman’s notion of the semiosphere as the common space for all living and inanimate elements. Closing the paper with a return to biosemiotics, the author comes back to Tarasti’s ideas and compares these with some ideas in biosemiotics, paying special attention to the concepts of unpredictability, choice and dynamics. The comparison shows that some intuitions, assumptions and theses of these different scholars turn out to be surprisingly convergent. The author believes that the outlined parallels between Tarasti’s view, Latour’s and Lotman’s concepts, and biosemiotics may be promising for further research, inviting detailed study.

Arhitektura i filozofija: paradoksi i metamorfoze njihova susreta

Author(s): Chris Younès / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 05+08/2019

Dobro je poznato da je Jacques Derrida isticao ideju o suštinskom suživotu filozofije i arhitekture, te je rekao: »Collège international de philosophie treba osigurati mjesto susreta (rencontre), susret mišljenja, između filozofije i arhitekture. Ne zbog toga da se konačno sukobe, već da promisle što ih oduvijek drži zajedno u najbitnijoj kohabitaciji.«

DELEUZE’O IR GUATTARI GEOFILOSOFIJA PRIEŠ ANTROPOCENĄ

Author(s): Sigita Dackevičiūtė / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 14/2019

The term ‘Anthropocene’, which emerged in the general context of anti-anthropocentric tendencies, has been criticized for its universalization of the subject, for considering human as superior to other species, as well as for its appreciation of geoingeneering solutions to the problems associated with climate change. The article highlights the relevance of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guatari in the context of these tensions caused by the term ‘Anthropocene’. The Geophilosophy of Deleuze and Guatari proposes a concept of nature which includes dynamic system of layers with transversal interconnections. This system challenges the anthropocentric “hierarchy” of nature. Their theory of artistic becomings connects to specific material bio- or geo- situations and in this way acts against both the universalization of the Anthropocene subject and the universalized visuality of the Anthropocene. The article also discusses art installations created by Olafur Eliasson and Lara Almarcegui which engage in a specific relationship with matter and in this way act against the universalized visuality of the Anthropocene.

Dyskursy gier wideo

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2019

Niniejsza książka ma formułować propozycję metodologicznego otwarcia groznawstwa,silnie akcentując rolę dyskursu i narracji już w dwóch tekstach otwierających:„Dyskursywne gry i dyskursy gier” Geralda Voorheesa oraz „Poza mitem i metaforą.Przypadek narracji w mediach cyfrowych” Marie-Laure Ryan. Podkreślenie roli narracjii dyskursu umożliwiło również umocowanie pozostałych rozdziałów książki w dwuwzajemnie się dopełniających paradygmatach: teorii i filozofii (w części zatytułowanej„Teorie”) oraz praktyce hermeneutycznej (w części zatytułowanej „Praktyki”), dostarczającychwspólnie narzędzi do krytycznej wiwisekcji uobecniających się w grachpostaw dyskursywnych oraz narracji o świecie, kulturze, religii, filozofii, teologii, ekonomii,płciowości, rasie czy polityce. (...) Problem dyskursów gier wideo oraz dyskursóww grach wideo ujawnia zatem nie tyle bałagan, co niesłychaną produktywność ujęćbadawczych, nieograniczonych sztywnymi normami pojęć, kategorii czy narzędzi teoretycznych,które równolegle odnajdują w grach wydarzenia, znaczenia, języki, komunikaty,idee, ideologie, hierarchie i struktury władzy oraz wykluczenia. Sploty problemowew grach jako formach komunikacji, tekstach czy obiektach kulturowych skłoniłynas do zastosowania formuły liczby mnogiej w określeniu „dyskursy gier wideo” –tak, by unaocznić zarówno potrzebę pluralizacji perspektyw badawczych, jak i odpowiadającejjej różnorodności uobecniających się w grach narracji o świecie, zarównotym nas otaczającym, jak i tym przez gry wytwarzanym.

FILM AS A METHOD OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH: A LABORATORY FOR POST-MODERN PRACTICES

Author(s): Ligia Smarandache / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

This article posits that cinematic language should be reconsidered and validated as a means of research in the scientific world. It should no longer be seen as simply a disseminator of information, but also as a means of investigating reality. The new trends in cinema, specifically fiction-documentaries use various methods to investigate reality. These methods could be useful in a broader sense, namely in cross-disciplinary scientific research. The postmodern approach to the notion of complexity or narrative knowledge creates a favorable framework for a paradigm shift concerning the analytical and quantifying method of scientific research. Cinema as a medium can be used as a tool and an invisible technology capable of shaping our ideas.

GEOLOGINIS LAIKAS IR GLOBALI ERDVĖ KAIP ANTROPOCENO ETIKOS (NE)GALIMYBĖS SĄLYGA

Author(s): Danutė Bacevičiūtė / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 14/2019

This article deals with the question what happens when the term “Anthropocene”, originating from geoscience, is incorporated into ethical discourse. The author argues that the appearance of geological time scales and global space in ethical self-perception testifies the extension of the field of our responsibility, but at the same time this responsibility becomes as ephemeral as the human effort to imagine a multimillion-time span. By discussing two strategies that have been crystallized – technological-managerial solutions to ecological problems implemented through the development of various geoengineering projects and environmental initiatives that emphasize the importance of biodiversity – the author seeks to determine whether they allow for the establishment of an ethical subject and ethical action. Comparing Timothy Clark’s and Jacques Derrida’s positions, the author discusses whether the crisis of human “local”, “immediate” action, resulting from the tension between local and global perspectives and precluding a clear decision on what would be more appropriate in the face of the ecological catastrophe, is a condition of impossibility of ethics in the Anthropocene or, quite the reverse, its possibility.

Ideološki sistemi i drugi alati za konstrukt identiteta i spomenika

Author(s): Majda Turkić,Bernard Harbaš / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 18/2019

If norms are directed by the societal ruling structure, ideologically constructed systems may distort objective, real, and scientifically proved values creation. Individuals are often disabled to autonomously decide on the acceptance of their choices, which may direct further consequences. This paper discusses the idea and the construction of identity through literature from Foucault, Derrida, Hegel, Hall, to Butler, as forcefully created perceptions that serve established systems for imposing national ideology and control. We argue that enforced societal norms undermine singularity and debilitate capacities for individual expression and beingness. As part of this paper discussion, we analyze the phenomenon of destruction of monuments that are publicly exposed and visible, referring to intermittent vandalism of the Partisan Cemetery in Mostar as an example of denial and humiliation of the symbols of the former political framework. This example serves to delineate one of many tools used for the instrumentalization of the national and ideologically created identities and the aftermath of the societies.

Jacques Derrida i politika arhitekture

Author(s): Francesco Vitale / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 05+08/2019

Barem na prvi pogled, interes za arhitekturu pojavljuje se u jasno definiranom razdoblju djelovanja Jacquesa Derride. Od Labirinth und Architextur (1984) do Talking about Writing (1993), vrlo intenzivnom razdoblju od samo deset godina, Derrida je bio jedan od zagovornika suradnje između novoosnovanog Collège international de Philosophie i Centre de création industrielle u Parizu.

Journal of Liberty and International Affairs

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Journal of Liberty and International Affairs is a triannual (3 issues per year), open-access and internationally peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of liberty and international affairs, published by the Institute for Research and European Studies - Bitola. A group of scholars are responsible for the launching of this journal. The primary intention is to offer academic and public debate on liberty and international affairs in all their aspects, taking into account the following topics: Individual liberty; Libertarianism; Classical / Neoclassical liberalism; Objectivism; Social liberalism; Coercion; Statism; Anarchism; Minarchism; Democracy; Political anthropology; International relations and diplomacy; Public and private international law; Geopolitics; Nationalism; Multilateralism; Security and freedom; Ideology; Politics and religion; Neo-Ottomanism; Neo-Sovietism; Yugosphere; Propaganda; Regional cooperation; European federalism; EU law and politics; European economic governance; EU foreign and security policy; Competitive federalism; Comparative constitutional law; Human rights and freedoms; Gender studies; Emerging powers (BRICS; Russia; China; India etc.); Transatlantic relations and other related topics, that contribute to the understanding of liberty and international affairs from different angles. It is important to emphasize, that this journal devotes special attention to Europe / EU as a crucial factor in the contemporary international affairs. Also, the journal editorial team encourages the submissions that treat Balkan issues, especially the attitude of the Balkan countries towards the European integration, and their place within the new international context.

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Ksenologie

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2018

Nowy interdyscyplinarny, monograficzny tom jest w historii cyklu „Perspektywy Ponowoczesności” szczególny, bo znacząco metarefleksyjny. Ośrodek Badawczy Facta Ficta pokazuje w nim w sposób bezpośredni, że pomieszanie sfery społecznej i kulturowej w jego nazwie nie jest przypadkowe. Trawestując Foucaulta, można powiedzieć, że w ramach badań Ośrodka związki między kulturą i polityką są permanentne i fundamentalne. Nieprzypadkowo w motcie do jednej części książki redaktorzy tomu „obnażają chwyt” i wprost przytaczają źródło nazwy Ośrodka, cytat z „Jutrzenki”: „Facta. Tak, facta ficta. Wszyscy historycy mówią o rzeczach, które nie istniały poza ich wyobraźnią”. Nietzsche pisze w nim dość wąsko o dyskursach historii – ale czyż dzieje ludzkich konfliktów nie są zarazem wyimaginowaną historią i topografią tak swojskości, jak i obcości? A zatem proponowany monograficzny projekt badawczy zajmuje się właśnie „mapowaniem obcości”. W tak zatytułowanym błyskotliwym wstępie do rozważań zacytowana jest, pomiędzy wieloma innymi, intrygująca myśl Waldenfelsa (wyraźnego, intelektualnego patrona całej publikacji): Obce należy do tego, co nas nachodzi. Nie gdy jest sobie daleko – ale gdy nas „nachodzi”. Taka jest perspektywa tomu – obcości nie poznamy, nie doświadczając uzurpacji i złudzeń swojskości. Zbliżymy się do obcego tylko wtedy, gdy poprzez refleksyjną postawę u-JA-rzmimy niepokoje związane z tym „najściem”. Nasze porządki symboliczne w swej pozornej „samowitości” doświadczają nieustannie tak realnych, jak i wyimaginowanych inwazji zewnętrzności. Oznaczenie wielu z nich wartościującą kategorią obcości omawiane jest w kolejnych rozdziałach „Ksenologii” uporządkowanych w czytelnym koncepcie dyskursywnych doświadczeń Facta i mimetycznych narracji Ficta.

METODOLOŠKA PROMIŠLJANJA POSTMODERNISTIČKIH KONCEPCIJA

Author(s): Marija Lončar / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 1/2008

The author has tried to methodologically present postmodern concepts and to point out the new form of research that appeared under the influence of new changes in the new approaches to social and sociological research. It is obvious that the ensuing amassments of contemporary reasons, just like the methodological principles of postmodern research, have become a part of accepted practice. By defining the influence of postmodern discourse on social and sociological research, there has been a notable move away from postpositive epistemology of the modern period. Accordingly, the problem of the paper has been directed towards consideration of poststructuralism which has been directed at the concept of reality, truth and knowledge, while the basic notions of poststructuralism have been summarized in terms of language, truth and meaning. In opposition to the orthodox paradigm, the author has emphasised several different „postmodern” approaches which move away from epistemology based on objectivity and embrace empirical, constructivist, and an action oriented worldview. In this way, the changes of traditional methodological concepts have been indicated.

Nema sekularizacije bez neprijatelja

Author(s): Bernard Harbaš / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 1-2/2019

This article departs from Carl Schmitt’s understanding of the notions of the political and enemy and their interpretation in contemporary social and political theory. Concept of the political implies a multitude of grouped and opposed yet not necessarily conflicting parties. The political can be understood as a confirmation of political unities’ existences, as well as the strength of their inner coherence. In other words, the political is a strengthening of ties within a political community because beside and opposed to it there is another (hostile) community. In contemporary philosophy, Schmitt’s understanding of the political is, among others, interpreted from the theory of identity standpoints. In that sense, enemy represents a confirmation that there is the other who is opposed, independent and different from the ‘same’. Talal Asad is of the opinion that with the emergence of Enlightenment Europe formed the identity of modern and secularized community which simultaneously brought about outlining of clear demarcation with religious East which, from the Western standpoint, remained undeveloped because it didn’t undergo the process of secularization. Similar thesis is brought forward by Gil Anidjar who states that Europe constitutes and strengthens its identity through the enmity towards the religious East. According to Chantal Mouffe, enemy is understood as a constitutive outside, i.e. as the condition for forming the identity. For Derrida, Schmitt’s concept of the enemy can be understood as ‘the other’ who is not only different but significant since, because of its otherness, opposition and distance, it prevents ethnic homogenization and thus creation of new enmities. The article shows that Schmitt’s the political doesn’t necessarily has to be understood as a concept which supports absolutist power and necessarily enmity. On the contrary, through contemporary (especially poststructuralist) interpretations one can see that enmity is unavoidable element in constituting the identity and, even more importantly, foundation for every authentic friendship.

Razgradnja kao stil

Author(s): Žarko Paić / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 05+08/2019

Koliko su riječi Jacquesa Derride o tome da je arhitektura »posljednja utvrda metafizike« vjerodostojni put jednog mišljenja za nadolazeće vrijeme toliko su i najupečatljiviji dokaz obrane i posljednjih dana sâme metafizike.

REENVISIONING ARTISTIC CREATIVITY: MODERN / POSTMODERN IMPLICATIONS OF BALZAC’S “THE UNKNOWN MASTERPIECE”

Author(s): Dalia Judovitz / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

This study explores Honoré de Balzac’s iconic representation of artistic creativity in The Unknown Masterpiece by focusing on an unexamined aspect of his text, namely the seminal role played by critical reception and consumption in artistic production. This influential tale is examined in terms of its artistic and philosophical contributions to reenvisioning creativity by modern and postmodern critics and thinkers. Challenging the ideology of the artist as creative genius, this analysis targets the processes, labor and materials of artistic production and its relations to critical consumption. At issue is the expressive potential of the art work in its creative capacities to bring about the new, to happen and make things happen.

Religija u postistinitom svijetu

Author(s): Samedin Kadić / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 1-2/2019

This paper presents the thesis of the modern age as an end of the truth era. The neologism “post-truth” represents not only a global entry into a new era of total populism, but it also summarizes the general experience that truth is not only endangered, but that its time has passed. We live in a “posttruth” epoch in which facts have no weight. This paper identifies three key processes that have contributed to the end of the truth: postmodernism as the dominant intellectual paradigm in Western universities, the establishment of spectacle as a political medium, and the emergence of social networks that enabled recipients to take part in content creation. In such a socio-cultural environment, religion, both as a political religion and as an esoteric-occult religiosity and, finally, as a daily practice, becomes an area of manipulative techniques, political games and ideological contradictions. Religion dissolves, lose substance, identity.

SOCIOLOŠKA I FILOZOFSKA TEMELJENJA ETNOGRAFSKOG ISTRAŽIVANJA

Author(s): Renata Relja / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 2-3/2009

The basic aim of this paper is to provide insight into the sociological and philosophical bases of contemporary ethnographic research. Accordingly, we start from a discussion of the appropriateness and inappropriateness of qualitative and quantitative approaches.The paper provides a discussion of naturalism and sociological positivism, which argues for the idea of the unity of the natural and social sciences. The application of relativism is recorded, which reflects the influence of the phenomenology of the 60s and 70s of the twentieth century. The anti-realist “rebirth” has also made a significant impact on ethnography, and its consequences are contained in the process of the acceptance of constructivist perspectives within the research process. This paper also examines the traditions of creative and interpretive sociology, whereas in the context of the relationship between poststructuralism and ethnography emphasis is placed on an individual interpretation of social reality and an individual position in the social world. The influence of phenomenology can be read within an emphasis on full participation in certain social or cultural groups with the aim of discovering its key ideas. Interactionist ethnography derives directly from organized assumptions of symbolic interactionism, whereas the contact point of ethnomethodology and ethnography is summarized in their overlapping perspectives which are aimed at interpretative traditions based on the life-world, which have similar views on the role of social actors and which avoid the typical quantitative theoretical approach to reality.

TRANSCENDENTAL EXTINCTION: A PHILOSOPHICAL RESPONSE TO THE ANTHROPOCENE

Author(s): Mehdi Parsa / Language(s): English / Issue: 14/2019

The main thesis of this paper is that the philosophical response to the Anthropocene entails employing rather a transcendental than an empirical or practical approach. In response to new attacks on transcendental philosophy by speculative realists, I defend a certain type of transcendentalism, which can be called transcendental realism. Gilles Deleuze’s reading of the ancient Stoics would be the best example of an effort to keep transcendentalism while taking a realist or even a materialist stand. In this regard, I examine the concept of extinction as the central idea of the Anthropocene. I refer to two contemporary philosophers, namely Catherine Malabou and Ray Brassier, who, reacting to the Dipesh Chakrabarty’s and Quentin Meillassoux’s demands to abandon the transcendental philosophy, direct their analyses towards a unificatory view, which is the core characteristic of the version of the transcendental approach applied in this paper. Malabou’s unificatory tool is her notion of “the brain of history”, which will be discussed together with Deleuze’s idea of the agency of death. Brassier’s method to connect ancestrality and the “here and now”, or the idea that the absolute extinction has already happened, will be considered as a feature of his transcendentalism. Ultimately, I conclude that as both Malabou and Brassier, despite their materialism, have to incorporate the transcendental approach into their theories, a philosophical response to the Anthropocene must view the transcendental extinction as its problematic.

Žak Derida sa
Žakom Lakanom

Author(s): Radoman Kordić / Language(s): Serbian / Publication Year: 0

The modality “with” (deconstruction with the theory of psychoanalysis) assumes two forms of complex relations. The first one is expressed through the ability of the subject of that modality, of Lacan or Derrida, to say “we”, or in other words in the ability to overcome differences in the point, essentially common to them. The other form of relation of the modality “with” consists of visible and invisible ties between theories of deconstruction and psychoanalysis, the dimension of the other, otherness in theory, and the temptation emanating from the fact that only one subject of the modality “with” can say “we”. In this case it is Derrida who is saying it, but in his own way. “In his own way”, which is also immanent to Lacan, functions as a point in which the difference is overcome, it becomes “in our own way” and confirms the modality “with”.

Žak Derida, Robert Muzil: putevi s one strane stvarnog

Author(s): Aleksandra Kostić / Language(s): Serbian / Publication Year: 0

Author initially attempts to differentiate ‘modern’ and ‘postmodern’ stance by emphasizing the subtle distinction between Derrida’s notion of peut-ętre (maybe) and Robert Musil’s concept of Möglichkeit (possible). These two notions are similar but nevertheless they can exemplify two different approaches to the realm beyond Reality: derridian ‘maybe’ refers to the openness of things, to surprise and ‘event’, whereas ‘possibility’ remains, by means of causality, motivation, utopism, etc., tied to existing reality. In the conclusion author suggests that ‘contemporary times’ – illustrated by Sloterdijk’s pictoresque portrait of polyvalent logics – demand ‘maybeness’ that encompass and surpass musilian contemplation on unreal, but possible things.