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: 39022381The 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: 39554861Aside from numerous scientific publications, Tadej Troha has also published regular monthly columns and other articles in the daily newspaper Dnevnik and other periodicals. He has thereby demonstrated that it is possible to combine philosophical arguments with particular social issues and to communicate complex ideas to the broader public.
F.29 Contribution to the development of national cultural identity
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