Od Joining the Club h grotesknosti slovenske adaptacije na neoliberalizem
From Joining the Club to the Grotesque Slovenian Adaptation to Neoliberalism

Summary/Abstract: It does not suffice to have just an uncertain belief or an intuition that there is something wrong with the Slovenian culture and science policy – as well as with its polity – in order to recognize, uncover and remove the subtle ideological mechanisms, which progress at an accelerated pace into Slovenia during the last decade. There is a systemic intrusion of a set of mobilisatory doctrines, discourses, and mechanisms, deriving from imperially tanned neoliberalism in nearly all the fields of social production and civic life (from science, culture to law, art etc.), underdigging basic human and civic rights, and substituting them by the market logics as a normative, namely, by mass–based criteria. The author claims that neoliberal strategies and their real purposes are to be clearly recognized primarily, in order to introduce proper distances afterwards. Neoliberalism is neither necessity nor destiny; it is a politically motivated action of a minority (elite), taking the effects of its implantations – be it consciously or unconsciously – into account. The article offers a few mental–tools and categories for uncovering the neoliberalism, and critically assesses some of its invasions into Slovenia, where this ideology »succesfully« coincides with similar structural dispositives from the past.

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