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\"\"\u201cThe space in which we live, which draws us out of ourselves, in which the erosion of our lives, our time and our history takes place, the space that wears us down and consumes us, is itself heterogeneous. In other words, we do not live in some kind of void within which individuals and things may be located. We do not live inside a void coloured by various shades of light; we live within a set of relations that define sites which are irreducible to one another and absolutely cannot be superimposed upon one another.\u201d (M. Foucault)<\/p>\n

EVENTS<\/h2>\n

28 April 2026
\nComrade Katarina in Conversation with EstLab<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>How and why is capitalism destructive? Is capitalism merely a particular socio-economic-political regime, or is it perhaps a \u201creligion\u201d (W. Benjamin)? And finally\u2026 when will we (and will we ever) witness the \u201cend of capitalism<\/em>\u201d?<\/p>\n

These questions \u2013 along with many others \u2013 were raised during that afternoon in Room 54 at FFOS. Why? Naturally, because the guest of the cooperative known as EstLab was Katarina Peovi\u0107! This remarkable woman<\/em>, a member of Radni\u010dka Fronta as well as the band FRONTA, and a professor of Cultural Studies in Rijeka\u2026 simply, Comrade Kate<\/strong>\u2026 spoke with philosophy students, visitors from Osijek, and the author of these lines.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Can material analysis be returned to the public sphere? Why should the proletariat establish itself as a nation? What is \u201cprotagonistic democracy\u201d? Through inspiring articulations, Katarina attempted \u2013 to the best of her ability \u2013 to respond to the numerous controversies of the world we inhabit. Furthermore, the conversation inevitably touched upon the neuralgic point of \u201cOur Beautiful Homeland\u201d\u2026 namely, the inability to articulate \u201cleft-wing thought\u201d in Croatia. No, our people are not stupid(?); rather, the structural necessity of the power of Capital makes it appear unavoidable. (However, one cannot excuse the total lack of awareness and the political responsibility of political elites in the EU and Croatia regarding the condemnation of the genocide against Palestinians<\/em>, for example.)<\/p>\n

Ultimately, the questions of LABOUR and SOLIDARITY emerged as crucial. Let us become aware and finally \u201cawaken\u201d from this \u201cnightmare weighing on the brains of the living\u201d (Marx)! Una mattina mi son svegliato<\/em><\/strong>\u2026 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oZfuAUyCU90<\/a> and https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dMqiw4Ibo_s<\/a><\/p>\n

mk<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Recording of the event: EstLab \u2013 The End of Capitalism? \u2013 guest Katarina Peovi\u0107<\/a><\/p>\n

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21 May 2024
\nEstLab Colloquium \u2013 The Right of Death and Power over Life<\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>As with everything else that remains even remotely meaningful today, the question of \u201clife and death\u201d remains a neuralgic one. This also applies to philosophy itself. What is the condition of its survival? Where lies the thin boundary of its continued existence\u2026 once again, its life and death? The philosopher who most persistently dealt with this question was certainly Michel FOUCAULT<\/strong>. The concluding text of the first volume of his planned six-volume work, provocatively entitled The History of Sexuality \u2013 The Will to Knowledge<\/strong> (1976), bears the title \u201cRight of Death and Power over Life<\/strong>\u201d. Here, Foucault exposes a permanent secret of modernity. It is the mystery of the relationship between knowledge and power. How is the contemporary capitalist world structured? The \u201carchaeology of knowledge\u201d develops into a distinctive \u201cgenealogy of power\u201d, while the administration of life becomes the fundamental means of subjugating individuals exposed to technologies of knowledge and strategies of power. Toward the end of his life, Foucault attempted to find \u201csalvation\u201d from this through the hermeneutics of the \u201ccare of the self\u201d (epimeleia heautou<\/em>). After brutal sovereign power \u2013 most graphically and drastically described at the beginning of his book Discipline and Punish<\/em> (1975) \u2013 the body is increasingly less subjected to cruel punishment and killing and increasingly\u2026 disciplined. It becomes the object of Capital\u2019s \u201ccare\u201d for a workforce that is healthy and compliant with the production process. Foucault also raises the entire subject to the level of the so-called history of sexuality. Power over life \u2013 at least since the 18th century \u2013 develops in two directions. The first is the so-called \u201canatomo-politics of the human body\u201d, which becomes a murderous death machine (or a war machine, as Gilles Deleuze and F\u00e9lix Guattari would later call it). The second is the \u201cbiopolitics of the population\u201d, regulating the hygiene of populations. And not only that\u2026 also \u201cat play\u201d here are demography, housing policy, health policy and epidemiology \u2013 the science of the \u201cproper shaping of the social body\u201d. The path from sovereign power \u2013 governed by the principle \u201cMake die and let live\u201d \u2013 through the disciplining of bodies within enclosed spaces \u2013 schools, factories, hospitals, barracks\u2026 and the prison itself \u2013 culminates in biopower as the driving force of contemporary capitalism. Its principle, therefore, is \u201cMake live and\u2026 let die\u201d. What does Foucault tell us about all this? What is the power of LIFE as RESISTANCE? And where can we find the \u201cstrength of resistance\/rebellion of life against the power seeking to control it\u201d? What place remains for LIFE within the all-encompassing biopolitics of today\u2019s war machine? Furthermore, how did the \u201csymbolics of blood\u201d transform into an \u201canalytics of sexuality\u201d, as the fundamental apparatus of surveillance over individual life within \u201cnetworked societies of control\u201d (Deleuze)? THE RIGHT TO LIFE\u2026 Can human beings still be what they are (Who They Are!) beyond all oppression and alienation? Is the \u201claw of the sword\u201d the fateful and unavoidable destiny of the individual, both in Foucault\u2019s time and today? Do we still possess any power to resist that \u2013 power? We attempted to answer these and other questions at the EstLab academic colloquium held on Tuesday, 21 May, from 6:30 p.m. at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek. Alongside EstLab members \u2013 Marijan Krivak, \u017deljko Senkovi\u0107, Daniel Horvat, Mislav Uzuni\u0107 and Boris Bosan\u010di\u0107<\/strong> \u2013 philosophy students from our Faculty also joined us at the event. mk<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n