The anonymous Slovenian meme-art collective Smetnjak shows no respect to some canonical figures of mainstream art and philosophy, from Marina Abramović to Žižek. But who will have the last laugh? Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the greatest pretender of…
If everybody says Slavoj Zizek is a buffoon, what about the rest of the gang? Here’s the enlightening Bturn guide to buffoon philosophers It has become a standard practice among many scholars nowadays to take the piss out of old…
Monday, April 23, 2012, 8:00 pm Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco(US) God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse / Crucified Subject: Without Grail. In Conversation with Roy Eisenhardt Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. His books include…
McDonald’s in the Balkans: a brief history From a source of national pride to a symbol of US imperialism, the American fast food chain has left its mark in the Balkans
In March...
Yu-Mex: Yugoslav Mexican Music of the 1950’s After the Yugo-Soviet relations broke down in 1948, the Yugoslav authorities were looking for an alternative source of cultural inspiration....
The Soviet erotic alphabet picture book from 1931 This precious discovery from the vaults of Stalinism sheds new light on the supposedly sexually repressive communist society of the former S...
Geeks behind the Iron Curtain: Yugoslav tech-socialism and the imaginary future Kristian Benic’s book digs out an impressive bulk of geeky stories not just about Commodores and Spectrums, but the Socialist Federal Republ...
