Likeness

Semblance and Self in Slovene Society

AvGretchen Bakke

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Del i serien Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity

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Beskrivning

The Likeness is a close ethnographic study of subjectivity in the former Yugoslav republic of Slovenia. In this highly imaginative work, the author argues that much of what matters in Slovenia plays out on surfaces—of people and things, systems and locations—rendering the complexity of expression external and legible, but rarely unique or original. Here likenesses are everywhere in bloom and powerfully deployed. Moving blithely from Slovenia’s most famous thinkers to its most confounding artists, from grammatical categories of number to the particularities of history, The Likeness explores alternative modes of self-expression as postsocialist Slovenia gains visibility on the world stage.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-05-19
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:544 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity
Antal sidor:196
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520320031

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Gretchen Bakke is a cultural anthropologist at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt University in Berlin. She is the author of The Grid: The Fraying Wires between Americans and Our Energy Future and a coeditor of Between Matter and Method: Encounters in Anthropology and Art and Anthropology of the Arts: A Reader.

Recensioner i media

"We encounter here a unique and provocative twist in the quest to depict Slovenia and the Slovenes. . . . A skillful pen, evoking deadly sincerity and a chuckle with the same stroke, is an invitation to explore this unconventional narrative."

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations Preface: Andandpersand IntroductionI. Of Semblances and . . . II. Of Selves A Break in the Pattern Chapter 1I. Walter Benjamin, Ljubljana, 1986 II. Walter Benjamin (et al.) Speaks His Mind,Ljubljana, 1986 (2001, 2003) Chapter 2I. Technologies of Self-Protection II. “By the very cunning of the scene” Portraits of a Three-Headed Mountain(1968, 2004, 2007) Chapter 3I. Two in the Same: Janez Janša, Janez Janša,Janez Janša, and Janez Janša II. This Is Going to Hurt a Little Chapter 4I. Is Slavoj Žižek Full of Shit? II. More on the Same Subject Chapter 5I. Inside the Body Is Blood and Bone II. “ . . . or at least fail while trying” Afterword: Melania Trump (née Melanija Knavs) Bibliography Index