The article discusses aesthetic revolutions in relation to politics and art which are regarded as forms of movement that starts from a point of emergence and then turns into a process of assimilation and into »degeneration of an idea into ideology.« This process may cause a reconfiguration of the sensible and in exceptional cases an aesthetic revolution. The article points at some instances of such a reconfiguration in politics, and then focuses on similar events in regard to historical avant-gardes (Italian futurism, surrealism, Russian constructivism, etc.).
COBISS.SI-ID: 32115245
The article analyzes the processes of subjectivation in times of global capitalism. The disappearance of borders seems like the ultimate success story of the success of global capitalism. This success was made visible with the slogan presented in Germany at the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which reads: "Welcome to the land without borders." The question we posed is therefore how to act in such a world, politically.
COBISS.SI-ID: 32109613
Setting out from the assumption that psychoanalysis aims at that which in the speaking being is most singular: the emergence of a way of enjoyment that would make up for the inexistence of the sexual relation, the article examines the mystical experience as a specific mode of such a making up. Focusing primarily on the relation between jouissance and language, the article shows to what extent the mystical experience can teach us about the possible ways of breakingwith the lethal relationship with jouissance where one seems to be reduced to “the partner of one’s own loneliness”.
COBISS.SI-ID: 32099629
The article defends the thesis according to which Kant's doctrine of ideas implies elements for a materialistic turn of the Idea. For Kant, the Idea is a way in which a thought that is affected by the »thing of thought« functions in a given world. The »thing of thought« being conceived as a point of the real at which thought can only be established as thought while remaining nonetheless outside thought and irreducible to it. By conceiving ideas in such a way, Kant's philosophy is brought closer to the new materialism implied in Badiou's theory of ideas.
COBISS.SI-ID: 32101421
The article analyses philosophical, particularly ontological implications of the (mostly) literary figure of the double, relating it to the question of a possible repetition of the real in general. It starts out from the fact that the appearance of the double doesn’t lead to two ones as ontological entities, but rather casts doubt on the “original” one as ontological entity. The main thesis is that the real is not the original object of redoubling/repetition, but the impossible “one” that emerges when deprived, through repetition, of the symbolic support of identity.
COBISS.SI-ID: 32349485