First Mirowski’s analysis of the crisis is presented, as well as its major weakness: reliance on double-truth doctrine. Then Lacanian division between knowledge and belief is introduced which can better explain the success and survival of neoliberalism in the era of dedemocratisation and depolitization. With it we can also explain why concept of “machinic enslavement” introduced by Deleuze and Guattari is more operative for the understanding of the crisis. With the help of recent program/algorithm of Slovenian Research Agency for evaluation of scientific output a perfect example of such enslavement is rendered.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 39022381In two interviews for two leading Slovenian daily papers, Dnevnik in Delo, the leader of the research project presents to the general public his views on the outbreak, the development and inner dynamic of the crisis 2008. The two talks are about causes for the crisis, how it surprized main economical doctrines, about political manipulations with the crisis, the dimension of the irreversible and its effects on the society as a whole, the ecological dimensions of crisis, economy of debt, stubbornness of neoliberalism, its main illusions and possible alternatives to it.
B.06 Other
COBISS.SI-ID: 38151213Aside from scientific publications, Aleksandar Kešeljević and Tadej Troha have also published regular monthly columns and other articles in the daily newspaper Dnevnik and other periodicals. They have thereby demonstrated that it is possible to communicate complex ideas to the broader public.
F.29 Contribution to the development of national cultural identity
COBISS.SI-ID: 21878502The lecture highlighted the implications of current “refugee crisis” for the concept of sovereignty and state of exception. On the one hand, it emphasized a parallel between the dynamics of so-called illegal mass migrations which de facto suspended Schengen security regime within EU and Agamben’s conceptualization of messianic state of exception as that which abolishes “imperfect nihilism” of sovereignty and that which reveals the fiction of sovereignty about phantasmatic connection between nation [latin naquere – to be born] and territory. On the other hand, the paper also explained that today the space of exception, which was once represented by camp, is now displaced beyond the boundary of the state’s territory – due to the development of human rights protection after WW II and the legal acknowledgement of so-called crimes against humanity. This shift correspond to Deleuze’s insight about the passage of Foucauldian disciplinary societies to control societies.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 39554861In the interview author speaks about the role of philosophy and its influence in contemporary society, about interventions of philosophers into public and social space, of how to think European and global economic crisis. It presents the traps of austerity measures and future alternatives. The interview underlines necessary questioning of ordinary patterns in politics and thought established in the aftermath of the crisis.
B.06 Other
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