Description
Book SynopsisThe 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 surfacesof people and things, systems and locationsrendering 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 exploresalternative modes of self-expression as postsocialist Slovenia gains visibility on the world stage.
Trade Review"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." * Slovene Studies *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Preface: Andandpersand
Introduction
I. Of Semblances and . . .
II. Of Selves
A Break in the Pattern
Chapter 1
I. Walter Benjamin, Ljubljana, 1986
II. Walter Benjamin (et al.) Speaks His Mind,
Ljubljana, 1986 (2001, 2003)
Chapter 2
I. Technologies of Self-Protection
II. “By the very cunning of the scene”
Portraits of a Three-Headed Mountain
(1968, 2004, 2007)
Chapter 3
I. Two in the Same: Janez Janša, Janez Janša,
Janez Janša, and Janez Janša
II. This Is Going to Hurt a Little
Chapter 4
I. Is Slavoj Žižek Full of Shit?
II. More on the Same Subject
Chapter 5
I. Inside the Body Is Blood and Bone
II. “ . . . or at least fail while trying”
Afterword: Melania Trump (née Melanija Knavs)
Bibliography
Index
