Quiz: is this a ‘real’ commercial or ironical concept art? Interesting for the cultural analyst is in any case the connection made between nationalism & commodity.
I owe this one to Mirna Zeman, Paderborn, who analyses such narratives.
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Shepherd burger
Posted in Uncategorized with tags commodification, fast food, Nationalism, Serbia on 1 April 2012 by delclemPhilosophical alternative to Freud’s couch
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Aleksandar Fatić, philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Serbia, thearpy on 28 March 2012 by delclem
The worldwide trend from America, namely seeking psychological support
from practicing philosophers, has been adopted in Serbia as well.
> text (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
‘To make German men cry is not an easy task’
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Marina Abramović, Performance art, Serbia, United States, yugoslavia on 3 March 2012 by delclem
“In silence, with my eyes closed, I spent 5 minutes drinking a glass of water. It was ‘a ritualization of everyday life’ administered to me by Marina Abramović to illustrate the methods behind her art.
The Yugoslavia-born, New York-based Abramovic, is at 65, one of the world’s best-known performance artists: she has rendered herself unconscious, whipped and poisoned herself and stood motionless for six hours while audience members were invited to use any of 75 display objects upon her – including knives and chains.” >read more
(c) Ross Simonini, THE GLOBE & MAIL, 20 February 2012; photo: Michael Falco
Undead anniversary
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, cultural history, Enlightenment, Medvedja, Serbia, Vampire, Vampirism on 22 February 2012 by delclem
The European vampire is celebrating his/her/its birthday.
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On a winter day 280 years ago, a creature came out of its dark graves in the Balkans, into the bright day of the “enlightened” European public: the vampire.
Androgynous Aussie from the Balkans
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Andrej Pejic, Androgyny, Australia, beauty, Bosnia, Bosnian War, gender identity, masculinity, Serbia on 18 February 2012 by delclemThe amazing story of Andrej Pejić, a young man of Bosnian descent who has become a famous model – for women’s fashion, creating a “third space”, a gender bypass as it were: an embodiment of the utopias of cultural theory as formulated e.g. by Homi Bhabha and Judith Butler?
However, the really interesting question is not his/her sexual orientation – as stupid journalists keep asking – but what created his “in-betweenness”: was it the rejection of the prevailing masculinity concepts of his old country of origin? is it war trauma, at least experienced from a second generation? In any case, there seems to be a Bosnian prehistory which nobody has investigated so far.
Btw., he is the man who outraged censors because he exposed his “breasts”…
What if the whole thing around him is just a clever marketing gimmick?
Nazi propaganda posters in Serbia during WW2
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bolshevism, Bturn, Churchill, Nazi propaganda, political advertising, posters, Serbia, Word War Two on 26 November 2011 by delclem
“One of the issues the Nazi authorities faced with the local population during four years in occupied Belgrade (1941-1945) was how to fight the ideological influence of both the Soviet Marxist-Leninism and Anglo-American liberal democracy.
Among various other propaganda techniques, a well established means of mass political advertising were posters. Although the Nazis never reached the avant-garde coolness of Soviet design, it is certainly interesting to see how the German propaganda machinery worked (…).”
Reblogged from (c) Bturn, 2011. More posters > LINK
“River water music for diehards”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Dragoljub Milanović, Literature, Peter Handke, review, Serbia, yugoslavia on 20 October 2011 by delclemThe Story of Dragoljub Milanović: a true Handke indeed.
“This is not a sermon, but (…) a story. A story to tell, if necessary, to a woodpile or an empty snail shell or even to myself alone, by the way not for the first time –”*
Peter Handke’s narrator, the self-appointed chronicler of Dragoljub Milanović’ Story, suffers from a strangely missionary pessimism that leads him to formulate unbearably beautiful sentences like the one quoted. And if no one listens to him, he is just going to talk to his “shoelace”, the “nutcracker”, or even a “worn-out doormat.”
‘Talk to the hand,” evil tongues of Americanized origin probably would tell him, but in Continue reading
Pop Music & Nationalism
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Canada, Kosovo, Music, Nationalism, Rap, Serbia on 17 February 2011 by delclemCulture is a battle ground for significance and distinction… a never ending story.
Example: the Serbo-Canadian rap group Illuminati X (FKA Street Team Balkan Beasts) which made itself a name for its nationalistic lyrics…
Self-victimization and comparative suffering serve as a legitimizing strategy –
for more violence?
delirium clemens 