Nepopustljiva misao: u spomen G. M. Tamásu
Početkom godine napustio nas je mađarski filozof Gáspár Miklós Tamás. Njegov utjecaj na regionalnu ljevicu bio je značajan: brojnim ovdašnjim studentima predavao je…
Subversive Forum
The Critique of Critical Theory
Werner Bonefeld: Negative humanism The purpose of the critique of capitalist society is the humanisation of the social relations. However, the premise of…
Julia Damphouse: Lessons from Rosa Luxemburg on Political Education and Practice
What can we learn from the early history of Social Democracy for the building of a vibrant and viable socialist movement today? The…
From Benjamin to Bensaid: The Utopian Potentials of Politics?
Stathis Kouvelakis: The Time of History, the Time of Politics, the Time of Strategy TBA Tijana Okić: All that Exists Cannot be…
Ray Brassier: Politics of the Gap
This talk considers two reconceptions of communist politics emerging in response to the so-called “crisis of Marxism” of the 1970s. Théorie Communiste’s “theory…
Stathis Kouvelakis: Defeated Critique: The Emergence and The Domestication of Critical Theory
As its French title suggests (La critique défaite: émergence et domestication de la Théorie critique, forthcoming English translation by Verso, 2025), the book…
Konformizam radikalne misli
Osim što pruža precizan i iscrpan uvid u intelektualnu povijest Francuske u drugoj polovici 20. stoljeća, knjiga Davida Šporera donosi prilično polemičnu kritičku…
Sopo Japaridze: Imagine a World: Utopian Visions of Marxist Feminism
This discussion delves into the utopian ideas of Marxist feminism, or more specifically, how Marxist feminism helps us conceptualize utopia both as an…
Treba li danas emancipacija utopije?
Rastko Močnik: Emancipacija – utopija Ako se pod “utopijom” misli na ideju nepostojeće, a željene društvene formacije, onda je potrebno odrediti na kojim…
Bratstvo i jedinstvo Srba i Hrvata. Temelj nove Jugoslavije
“Jednom reči, sa stvaranjem demokratske federativne Jugoslavije završava se vekovna istorija pocepanosti, razdora i međusobnih borbi južnoslavenskih naroda, a sa time i istorija…
What to do next with European Green Deal? Deliberative and Degrowth Perspectives
European Green Deal is an ambitious and at least one decade long program of the European Commission which – although under impact of…
Sami Khatib: “The Organization of Pessimism”: From Leftwing Melancholy to Messianic Nihilism
In 1940, Walter Benjamin noted that it is the function of political utopia to cast light on the sector worthy of destruction. His…
Esther Leslie: Unleashing Revolution from the Archives: On Art and Politics
Aesthetics and politics, culture and barbarism: the relations between these have concerned revolutionary and critical thinkers and practitioners. This talk considers the politics…
Søren Mau: Mute Compulsion
Despite insoluble contradictions, intense volatility and fierce resistance, the crisis-ridden capitalism of the 21st century lingers on. To understand capital’s paradoxical expansion and…
Joseph Vogl: Capital and Ressentiment
A trace of destruction follows the reign of financial markets, the new internet giants, the opinion-making industry. What loses out are democracy, freedom…
Učitelj socijalističkog humanizma: razgovor u sjećanje na Michaela A. Lebowitza
Nedavno preminuli američki politički ekonomist Michael A. Lebowitz itekako je poznato ime u našim lijevim krugovima. Još prije rata dolazio je u Cavtat,…
Dissemblage: Machine Capitalism and Molecular Revolution
The panel will be discussing Gerald Raunig’s new book, published at the end of last year, which brings philosophical and political considerations on…
Stephen Zepke: Head in the Stars
Knjiga Head in the Stars: Essays on Science Fiction (Multimedijalni institut, 2020) preispituje dominantno mišljenje o znanstvenoj fantastici danas, kao i o utopiji…
Peer Illner: The Mutual Aid Dilemma: Disasters, Crises and Social Reproduction
In our age of Covid and climate catastrophe, mutual aid has gained renewed importance in providing relief when hurricanes, floods and pandemics hit,…
Boyan Manchev: Kairos Call: The Philosophical Fantastic and The Persistence of Utopia
The task of this talk: to propose a philosophical mobilisation of few key concepts of contemporary epistemology (i.e. complex systems and irreversibility), confronting…
