The article analyses Agamben’s “messianism” as a privileged form of “new politics” or “real state of exception” (as opposed to sovereign one). Agamben defines messianism as “limit concept” of religion and sovereignty. Considering the fact that he assigns the same status also to the concept of fetishism, the article defines temporal logic of messianism as “post-religion” more in detail: it is not a singular act by which the structures of religion and sovereign exception once for all overcome themselves; rather, it is a temporal interval in which the overcoming itself adopts the form of undetermined (perverse) temporality.
COBISS.SI-ID: 38409005
The paper tries to show the relevance of the concept of “machinic enslavement” introduced by Deleuze and Guattari for the understanding of the crisis and its outcomes. In the first step it points some (mis)understandings of the concept and shows how it functions in works of Deleuze, Guattari, Raunig and Lazzarato. In the second step it links “machinic enslavement” with the critique of economy and neoliberalism in Mirowski and finally shows how recent program/algorithm of Slovenian Research Agency for evaluation of scientific output fits perfectly in the above described neoliberal context.
COBISS.SI-ID: 39188013
The book proceeds from the question on the possibility of intervening in irreversible processes. After the basic conceptual discussion of this issue in the field of Freudian psychoanalysis and the study of the problem of the end in literature (Kafka, Beckett, Kristof) and popular culture (South Park), it moves to an analysis of the contemporary reality of crisis. The crisis, which is itself defined as an irreversible process, is discussed from a discursive perspective (especially through the mutation of the fiscal crisis into the refugee one), on the one hand, and in connection to current mass phenomena defining the (post-)crisis politics of Europe, on the other.
COBISS.SI-ID: 282716160