The author offers a compelling thesis, arguing that the exploration of the human body has one ultimate aim: to gain knowledge of it and to conquer it. Exploration of body has an intrinsic link to power, since knowledge is constitutive for the power over the body. Ultimately the conquest of body means the power to intervene into life processes. The book breaks new ground with its study of body visualizations, from the Renaissance drawings to the medical imaging. In particular, it investigates their complex mediality. It also considers the extension and the reach of biopower that is now possible thanks to a wide range of engineering applications. The author originally questions the research approach by rethinking the relationship between mental and sensual examination. She takes into consideration the epistemological problem of the two modes of exploration: obtaining knowledge from empirical exploration and projecting that knowledge to the object of exploration.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1591693
A scientific monograph discussing mediality, power of biotechnology over life, about bio art, robotics, and photography published by a very prestigious editorial house of Herder in Mexico. A significant influence on the entire Spanish speaking world, because the issues of mediation and presence linked to biotechnology, photography and art are for first time addressed here. The achivement enscribes P. Tratnik in the global map of scholars on mediality, art, photography and biotechnology. Tratnik is also a member of the research team for art and science at the National Autonomous University Mexico (UNAM) and a member in the research project "Complejidad y filosofía natural en el cruce de arte y ciencia".
COBISS.SI-ID: 2438355
The monograph published in German by W. Fink re-interprets masochistic experience as an aesthetic phenomenon. As such, masochism is no longer pathologised. This new interpretation of masochism aims to reach beyond the borders of psychiatry/psychoanalysis. Rather it becomes an indispensable part of our everyday lives.
COBISS.SI-ID: 54078562
Monograph published in French Le sang et le lait (297 pp) is an exceptional achievement in cultural anthropological studies, which on the case of plague image (also the Image of Nuisance, Mater omnium, Mary the Patroness with a Coat, Combined Intercession, Mary the Intercessor etc.) in the church of St. Primož in Črna near Kamnik, which was created in 1504, at the end of Middle Age and in the beginning of the Renaissance, investigates the passage from two imaginary worolds and their visual expressions. Award: Excellent in Science 2013 - Humanities - field: culturology
COBISS.SI-ID: 268792576
This book critically examines influential interpretations and applications of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s thought in relation to the study of interreligious disagreement. In philosophy and theology of interreligious relations, Wittgenstein has been interpreted in different, sometimes contradicting ways. This is partly due to the nature of Wittgenstein’s philosophical investigation, which does not consist of a theory nor does it posit theses about religion, but includes several, varying conceptions of religion. In this book, I illustrate how assorted uptakes of Wittgenstein’s conceptions of religion, and the differing theological perspectives of the authors who formulated them, shape interpretations of interreligious disagreement and dialogue. On case studies from Bosnia-Herzegovina, I also show how this can be done in new and illuminating ways. I argue that a Wittgensteinian approach to communication is a fruitful framework for understanding interreligious disagreement and dialogue, responsive to empirical research into interreligious encounters today.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2048576522
The work analyses factors behind the radicalization of anti-capitalist movements and their ideologies in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in light of the political and economic crisis. Its focus is on the cooperative system in the Slovene area. The main achievement of the work is its thorough application of an interdisciplinary approach, as it brings together a number of diverse fields: structural linguistics, discourse theory, literary theory, economic sociology and cultural, social and political history. The work introduces the new and original concept of “Marxist formation” and uses this concept to examine local perceptions of authoritative Comintern texts. The work received a favorable review in the scientific journal Družboslovne razprave (Tamše, 2014).
COBISS.SI-ID: 258931968
There are as many meanings to drawing and painting as there are cultural contexts for them to exist in. But this is not the end of the story. Drawings and paintings are made, and in their making embody unique meanings that transform our perception of space-time and sense of finitude. These meanings have not been addressed by art history or visual studies hitherto, and have only been considered indirectly by philosophers (mainly in the phenomenological tradition). If these intrinsic meanings are explained and further developed, then the philosophy of art practice is significantly enhanced. The present work, accordingly, is a phenomenology of how the gestural and digital creation of visual imagery generates self-transformation through aesthetic space.
COBISS.SI-ID: 3748718
Despite the wonders of the digital world, people still go in record numbers to view drawings and paintings in galleries. Why? What is the magic that pictures work on us? This book provides a provocative explanation, arguing that some pictures have special kinds of beauty and sublimity that offer aesthetic transcendence. They take us imaginatively beyond our finite limits and even invoke a sense of the divine. Such aesthetic transcendence forges a relationship with the ultimate and completes us psychologically. Philosophers and theologians sometimes account for this as an effect of art, but How Pictures Complete Us distinguishes itself by revealing how this experience is embodied in pictorial structures and styles. Through detailed discussions of artworks from the Renaissance through postmodern times, Paul Crowther reappraises the entire scope of beauty and the sublime in the context of both representational and abstract art, offering unexpected insights into familiar phenomena such as Ideal beauty, pictorial perspective, and what pictures are in the first place.
COBISS.SI-ID: 857071
"Slovenianness", produced by »Blut und Boden« nationalism under the influence of external historical circumstances, does not represent any exception or peculiarity in the context of the development of nation states in modern Europe, and especially not so in Eastern Europe. Of course, in Slovenian history, which is the subject of analysis in the first part of the book, as in any other national history, interesting (ideological) specifics may also be found that conditioned political decisions and co-created political life in a space inhabited predominantly by the speakers of Slovenian language. Exclusive appropriation of history only by Slovenian-speaking inhabitants has had important implications, as, consequently, only certain of its chapters were selected from the past, mostly related at that to the political emancipation of the Slovenian ethnicity in the modern era, and we "forget" those Others, without which this community cannot be fully described and understood.
COBISS.SI-ID: 275066112
Miško Šuvaković describes his experience of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as a “permanent state of emergency”. The author explores this perspective in relation to the politics of time (dialectic historicizing) and the politics of space (geographic difference). By mapping visual arts, performance arts, architecture, music, new media and postmedia arts with contemporary theory, philosophy and aesthetics, he challenges established conceptualizations in modern and contemporary art movements.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1586829