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Mimezis i tipografije

Author(s): Bernard Harbaš / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 01+02/2007

This text investigates the notion of mimesis in the philosophy in the way proposed by the French thinker Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. The concept of mimesis has always been perceived as artistic principle founded in imitation of nature. In is the reason why, starting from Plato, metaphysical philosophy has been criticizing the concept of mimesis as what produces something secondary, i.e. what only resembles nature. Thus conceived, the main function of mimesis was to split the similarity of the object of imitation and the product of imitation. If we perceive the object of imitation in the Antique sense, as the nature or essence the artist makes into presence then mimesis, by producing what is not similar to the object of imitation breaks the logic of identity and in that way always escapes its essence. Therefore, mimesis can not be determined as imitation because its essence is indeterminable, as the mimesis perseveringly escapes its own essence. The main function of mimes is not imitation but complement of the reality itself.

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Kalbos problema šiuolaikiniame teatre. Referento kazusas

Author(s): Rasa Vasinauskaitė / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 4(33)/2003

The article makes a short overview of the structuralist - semiotic approach to theatre studies and concentrates on post-structuralism. The latter treats the language as writing (cf. body language), which forms its own space of creation or 'inscription' (J. Derrida) and at the same time creates its context as well as the objects and meanings in the context. In addition to the visual level, the contemporary theatre is as well concerned with the act of construction or inscription in the space, therefore such an act may be called the act of construction/deconstruction. It is performed both by the author (the artistic director or the actor) and by the perceiver (the spectator). It is exactly the gesture of deconstruction that suggests a different way of 'writing', creation, or presentation of phenomena and objects. According to Hans-Thies Lehmann, contemporary theatre is a post-dramatic theatre. In its most characteristic features it represents postmodernist culture and exists in as well as creates a postmodernist discourse. Having been only imitated by the theatre (text perceived as a linguistic object is a certain analogue of the reality), the reality, the object, and the subject presented by this discourse now belong to the reality of the inscription in the stage space; they are now the products of this reality and manifest their meanings only within its context. On the other hand, this reality is found in the inter-textual space which, though denying the law of similarity, preserves the possibility of reference. In contemporary theatre, the action itself and the act of creation, construction or deconstruction become the referent. In other words, contemporary theatre, which functions and structures itself according to the laws of postmodernist discourse, is based on the coordination/synchronization of the rules of composition and decomposition, reference and referential distance, and auto- and hetero-reference.

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Teologija urote: čitanje Držićevih pisama Cosimu I. i Francescu Madiciju

Author(s): Leo Rafolt / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1-2/2016

Conspiracy mission of Marin Držić is analyzed in the context of sovereignty and political state of exception, from Schmitt to Agamben, as well as in the light of the recent historical interpretations, from Jeličić and Pupačić, to Tatarin and Kunčević. Držić’s letters to Cosimo I and Francesco Medici are thus situated in the context of Renaissance diplomatic discourse. Their political and theological semantics is revised based on specific inconsistencies stemming from their Croatian stylizations (Čale vs. Batistić).

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Vlasništvo nad parom cipela ili o istini i slici

Author(s): Dubravka Pozderac-Lejlić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 01+02/2014

Relation between the art and the truth is one of the main questions of our general relation to the tradition of metaphysical thinking. Thereby, question of art, primarily painting, was tied to it’s traditional determination as mimetic, representational activity. On example of dissimilar «readings» of one Van Gogh’s well-known painting which presents a pair of peasant shoes, on one side, and another painting of shoes, Andy Warhol’s Dimond Dust Shoes, on the other, this paper specifies differences between the modern and post-modern art that are created as consequence of changes in objective world of reality (logic of market capital development), and within the subject (waning of affect and emotional experience). While the work of art of high-modernism is anchored in thematics of time and temporality, the other is facing toward experience of everyday life, toward space and presence. The depth of meaning of the first painting was replaced by sheer surface of the other where everything is set in a single plane that no longer can be conceived by the established categories of metaphysics.

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Levica i margina

Author(s): Zlatiborka Popov-Momčinović / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1-2/2014

In this paper, the author examines the ways of functioning of global capitalism, accompanied and strengthened by the domination of neo-liberal discourse that operates by means of the techniques of Hegelian „bad infinity“, thereby confirming its power through the accommodation and incorporation of different movements and alternative ways of thought. Yet, at the level of praxis and articulations of various voices from the margins, what is considered as the Left escapes cooptation and uncovers the vulnerability of neo-liberal domination and false „truths“ of the neo-liberal right wing discourse, which does not present but produces reality. Different practices and forms of the so-called direct action (e.g. the Occupy movement, protests in B&H) despite of their marginality expose the partiality and particularity of this domination which claims to be universal and naturalized, but not less manipulative. Such practices are elaborated and strengthened further by thought patterns within contemporary political theory and multifarious approaches, especially from so-called „poststructuralist margins“, relying also, among others, on Lacan’s insights.

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Jezik – dispozitiv ili generička bit čovjeka?

Author(s): Marijan Krivak,Monika švetak / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 2/2016

How to preserve the connection between language and thinking? The paper moves on from this fundamental question in order to explain what is happening with philosophy today, as a medium of such a relationship (Badiou). Furthermore, it tries to explain the connection between the concept of apparatus (Foucault-Agamben) and language. The goal of media apparatuses is the neutralisation of language’s profane power as pure means. By robbing the language from human use and its character of disclosing the Being, capitalism controls social communication. The capital uses language as a means to disperse its own ideology and induce the so called “free-willing” obedience. The language, which should be a pure means by itself, exposes its own emptiness in the media sphere. The language – as something inherent to all human entities – should be freed from its communicational purpose. We don’t need “more communication.” What we need is creating – resistance against contemporeanity (Deleuze & Guattari). We should manage in this goal if we renew language as a GENERIC ESSENCE of a human being. Finally, coming to language is also a medium for coming-to-the-world (Sloterdijk).

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Povijest laži

Author(s): Jacques Derrida / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 06/1996

Prije bilo kakve prethodne napomene dopustite mi dvije ispovijesti. To su također i dva ustupka. Oni su povezani sa bajkom (fabula) i fantazmom, a to znači sa onim što je sablasno. Poznato je da na starogrčkom jeziku phantasma također znači pojavljivanje utvare, fantoma ili duha. Fabulozno i fantazmatično imaju jedno zajedničko obilježje: stricto sensu ili u klasičnom smislu riječi oni ne pripadaju ni istinitom ni pogrešnom, ni vjerodostojnom ni lažnom. Oni se radije vezuju uz nesvodivu prirodu simulakruma ili virtualnosti. To zasigurno nisu istine ili istiniti izrazi kao takvi, a još manje su to zablude, obmane, lažna svjedočenja ili krivokletstva.

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Naujasis materializmas ir Gilles’io Deleuze’o filosofija

Author(s): Audronė Žukauskaitė / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 10/2015

The article asks what is new in new materialism and in what ways it is related to the philosophical ideas of Gilbert Simondon, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, and Manuel De Landa. The article argues that new materialism should be traced to the critique of hylomorphism elaborated by Simondon: Simondon denies any defined entity or individual, as well as matter and form, and replaces them with the process of individuation or ontogenesis. The process of individuation is considered to be primary, whereas individuals are interpreted as temporary and provisional points of fixation, which reduce both the previous stages and the future possibilities of development. In other words, Simondon creates a material ontology of becoming, which later becomes the central topic for Deleuze and Guattari. Following the Simondonian critique of hylomorphism, they deny matter and form dualism and replace it with the notion of matter-energy. This flow of matter-energy can be considered as a vitalist principle which is proper to physical, biological, social and psychical systems. Deleuze and Guattari’s vital materialism is revisited by De Landa, who points out that the notion of materialism cannot be sufficiently explained without the concepts of intensity and intensive multiplicity. It is precisely intensive multiplicity which engenders a qualitative change and gives energy to the process of individuation.

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ZAGADNIENIA HOLIZMU W KONTEKŚCIE RELACJONIZMU I STRUKTURALIZMU

Author(s): Damian Luty / Language(s): Polish Issue: 35B/2016

Two positions in which the mode of existence of Spacetime is considered are reconstructed — relationism and structuralism (I discuss the version of structuralism one can find in the so-called Ontic Structural Realism). I present and describe the notion of gravitational nonlocalities, at which one arrives through the difficulties with formulating laws of energy conservation in General Relativity. I state and try to defend a thesis, that the above difficulty may rise two different „weak” holisms on the ground of each mentioned position.

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Geopolitika i geofilozofija

Author(s): Ugo Vlaisavljević / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 01+02/1995

Doba rata je doba vladavine geopolitike. Tada se pmža, kako se čini, najpovoljnija prilika da se stekne svijest o onom političkom. Tako se odjednom sagledava nešto što je beskrajno, sveobuhvatno i neiscrpno, a što je u razdoblju življenja u miru imalo svoje vanjske i unutrašnje crte, prepoznatljive okvire jedne od mnogih čovjekovih djelatnosti.

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Fiction and fictionality in Japanese culture: shishōsetsu (i-novel) and “otaku” culture

Author(s): Yasusuke Oura / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

Fiction and fictionality—their features and uses—can provide numerous insights into a culture. The issues they raise also offer a fertile ground for comparative studies. In the case of Japanese culture, the shishōsetsu (Inovel), often considered the representative genre of modern Japanese literature, uses a special type of fictionality, which is one of its definitory features. Oversimplifying the facts, we could say that it stands at the intersection of the study of Japanese culture and theory of fiction. In Japan, only few thinkers have analyzed the shishōsetsu from this standpoint; for example, Itō Sei and Maruyama Masao, soon after the end of the Second World War, pointed out the unique type of fictionality present in the shishōsetsu, and connected it to a wider argument about the Japanese cultural background and mentality. This talk introduces the ideas of Itō and Maruyama, and attempts to reconsider the theoretical implications of this “Japanese-style fiction” from a present-day perspective. Another topic I tackle is the so-called “otaku culture”, especially the production and consumption of narratives it involves, often discussed in terms of “narrative consumption”, nijisōsaku (derivative work), etc. The phenomenon is not limited to literature, encompassing many subculture genres: manga, anime, video games, etc. The “otaku culture” in this sense, when we consider it from the point of view of fictionality, seems to contrast strangely with the shishōsetsu: while the latter is a quasi-autobiographical genre, recounting the author’s everyday experiences, the former is characterized by a sort of panfictionalism, a key concept of “postmodern” culture. Nevertheless, both are presumed to be Japanese. How can we explain this? That is the question I address in concluding my talk.

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Profesja. Derrida i uniwersytet

Author(s): Krzysztof Hoffmann / Language(s): Polish Issue: 25/2016

This paper is an attempt to recapitulate the main themes in Jacques Derrida’s thought on the uni- versity. The author focuses on The University without Condition (presented for the first time in 1998). The paper briefly recounts the philosopher’s involvement in educational institutions (GREPH, Collège International de Philosophie). Next, there is an analysis of the distinction between the future (futur) and the future-to-come (l’avenir), as well as the related opposition between profession (profession) and craft/trades (métier). The strategy of conceiving the university as the topolitical place of resistance is revealed using Derrida’s deconstruction of the repeater figure (agrégé-répétiteur). The paper ends by presenting an analogy between the condition of structural atheism and the obligation of the university to create a possibility for an event (beyond the constative/performative opposition).

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POSTMODERNA — RASTAKANJE MODERNE

Author(s): Obrad Savić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 03+04/1988

In the first part of the text the author analyses the modernistic myth on the self-reproduction of Modernism which turns everything into the element of its own dynamics. The principal statement that every attempt to surpass Modernism is illusory and futile is being questioned, because al critical and self-critical denial is included in the totalising drive of the self-formation of Modernism, The second part of the text shows how only with Nietzsche our image of Modernism was entirely altered. As a perfect diagnostician of the pathology of Modernism, Nietzsche was the first to renounce the restored revision of the notion of mind, rejecting the Enlightenment dialectics itself. Nietzsche’s anticipation of the »advancing decay of Modernism« was developed to the extreme only by the posmodernists.

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Opasnost od normalnih: politizacija ludila u Foucaultovu i Lützovu diskursu

Author(s): Goran Sunajko / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 03/143/2016

The paper presents a philosophical discourse on the dangers of the society of normal persons. It is about the importance of relation between madness and normality within the society and the political community from the former Michel Foucault’s optics and today’s Manfred Lütz’s perspective. The purpose of this paper is to show how the concept of the norm, and accordingly of the normalisation and discipline, leads to the imperative of the healthy society based on norms. Such society excludes all those who in any way deviate from the behavior predicted by the norm. Such request is the danger of modern society that does not differentiate abnormality from insanity, but use them to discredit its members which refuse to be subordinate. To be abnormal means only to be critical toward the norm that is set by majority, whether is it a legal, political, social, religious, educational or medical norm. On the foundations of Foucault’s philosophical and Lütz’s psychological insights, the thesis shows that the danger to society are not those who deviate from the norm, but the “normal people” who, as bearers of “normal” society, uncritically accept and implement the normative order.

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Totalitarizam između ideologije pokreta i fizike moći: Hannah Arendt i Michel Foucault

Author(s): Krešimir Petković,Toni Pavlović / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 13/2016

The paper compares the understanding of totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault. First, a critical reading of Arendt depicts her understanding of the characteristics of totalitarianism. Ideology is ultimately shown to be crucial for Arendt. Then Foucault’s critique of the concept of ideology is provided together with his understanding of the functioning of power. Special attention is given to Foucault’s understanding of biopower and his theorizing about Nazism, racism, and Stalinism. In the last part of the paper similarities and differences between Foucault and Arendt in the understanding of totalitarianism are drawn, and a synthetic definition of totalitarianism is offered, which can be helpful in evaluating the historical and modern political orders as totalitarian.

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Strukturalizm i historia

Author(s): Bartłomiej Błesznowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 22/2016

A short introduction of the issue of the Theoretical Practice Journal.

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Dyskurs jako praxis. Archeologia wiedzy jako teoria materializmu performatywnego

Author(s): Bartłomiej Błesznowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 22/2016

The principal theme of the article is the ontological status of Michel Foucault's archaeology of knowledge, with reference to “aporetic” source of its inspiration, which was undoubtedly structuralism and lacanian psychoanalysis. If Foucault's main notion – discourse, is based on the socio-historical permanence of statements related to the same formation rules, discourse formation is the field where the statements are linked and stabilized in their division. The major issue is the materiality of these statements, and consequently the material transformation rules of discourse emergence, the constitutive principle of discontinuity. As Gilles Deleuze wrote: “The present is a roll the dice [...] in one go, bones and rules are rolling”. The discourse is not just a collection of more or less structured rules, but rather a set of practices that perform an act; subjects (individual or collective) therefore do not have a permanent, structured identity within the discourse, but rather represent a constant change and the result of empowerment practices which have their own history. Reproduction of discourse is at the core of Foucault’s method (also after the “archaeological” period), which could lead us to formulate a concept of “extradiscursive politics”.

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Pochwała donkiszoterii, czyli o tym, co strukturalizm wniósł i co wciąż może wnieść do historii

Author(s): Tomasz Falkowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 22/2016

The paper discusses various possibilities of using structuralism in the current historical research. It seems, e.g., that this methodology or mode of reasoning could still be helpful to understand the origins of some historic phenomena. Despite the widely-held belief, the most important thinkers associated with structuralism, such as Jean-Pierre Vernant, Roland Barthes, or Pierre Vidal-Naquet, did not reduce their interests to the study of synchronic relations, but – as Foucault put it – attempted to fashion the instrument for a precise historical analysis. It was also a case of Michel Serres’ reflection on the origins of geometry. This example is closely examined in the paper to indicate some differences between both traditional and structuralist approaches to that question.

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Literatura jest sprawą ludu. Recenzja Kafki. Ku literaturze mniejszej Gillesa Deleuze’a i Feliksa Guttariego

Author(s): Joanna Bednarek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 22/2016

The article is a review of the polish translation of Deleuze and Guattari’s Kafka. Toward a Minor Literature, with special emphasis on the problems of literary experiment and the politics of literature. The article is a review of the polish translation of Deleuze and Guattari’s Kafka. Toward a Minor Literature, with special emphasis on the problems of literary experiment and the politics of literature.

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Językowe próby przeciwstawienia się strukturalizmowi. Recenzja Krytyki i kliniki Gillesa Deleuze’a

Author(s): Bartosz Kamiński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 22/2016

The aim of this article is to present the significance of Gilles Deleuze’s Essays Critical and Clinical in the possibly most coherent way. One of the main themes of the text is the opposition between the subjectivity produced by structuralististic authors and the subjectivity that is incomplete, unspecified, emerging from eternal motion of becoming oneself, which is defended by Deleuze. The essential concepts of this opposition are language, time, madness and judgment.

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