Aesthetics relation between art, culture, politics: social turn

Рукопись поступила в редакцию 1 июня 2016 г.This article deals with the problem of important social turn in the relationship between politics and art in the contemporary situation. In the postmodern sense, the relation between politics and art is assumed as performance or, in other words, as the representation of art and politics in the realm of cultural discourses and figures. The relations between art and politics in the contemporary sense may be assumed in terms of this triple definition, as: the transfer of politics into art, as the spectacularization of politics through art, and as a potential field of intervening critical, subversive practices in the global-transitional social processes of performing forms of life in the realm of expansive neoliberal capitalism and its global crisis

GENOCID I ETNIČKO ČIŠĆENJE ILI O ODNOSU DISPOZICIJE JEDNOG MEĐUNARODNO-KRIVIČNOG DELA I JEDNOG SOCIOLOŠKO-POLITIKOLOŠKOG POJMA

Genocide is the most severe criminal act in the international law that is determined by the Genocide Convention; there is no criminal act that is legally codified as ethnic cleansing, but it is a media and sociological-political science concept that, starting from the ‘80s of the 20th century, collectively implicate large number of individually codified crimes that are determined in the international criminal legislation as crimes against humanity and war crimes. According to Lemkin, the concept of genocide is significantly wider even in regard to the concept of ethnic cleansing, since it implicates a wide scale of measures committed against a national minority, with intent to destroy it, considering not only biological and physical destruction, but including them also. In any case, there must be a dolus specialis, which according to Lemkin consists of destroying one national group in various aspects of its identity, while according to the Genocide Convention it consists exclusively of physical and biological extermination of a national, ethnic, racial or religious group. Ethnic cleansing, as comprehended in sociological-political science interpretations, primarily denotes forced actions with the aim of creating ethnical monolithic territories. The actions are not directed to physical and biological extermination of an “undesirable ethnic group” in a territory, but as forced actions are directed to the leaving of the territory and may implicate also war crimes and crimes against humanity, but cannot be reduced only to them. In that sense, dolus specialis would be creation of an ethnically homogenous territory and this would make a difference from the genocide if this concept were legally codified. Besides, ethnic cleansing must be connected with the concept of ethnic group.U radu se analizira pojmovno određenje krivičnog dela genocida, shodno Konvenciji OUN i Lempkinovom shvatanju ovog pojma, a zatim vrši komparacija sa pojmom etničkog čišćenja. Ukazuje se na to da genocid jeste krivično delo, najteži mogući zločin, ali da etničko čišćenje nije zločin, pošto nije pravni, već sociološko-politikološki pojam. Svakako, detaljnom analizom ovog pojma, ukazuje se da elementi iz kojih se on obično sadrži (npr. ratni zločini, masakri, prinudne deportacije) predstavljaju svaki ponaosob neko od krivičnih dela iz oblasti međunarodnog krivičnog prava. Istovremeno, ukazuje se i na moguće razloge zbog kojih nikada nije kodifkovano kumulativno krivično delo - etničko čišćenje

Cyborg Tales: The Reinvention of the Human in the Information Age

The emerging technological developments across various scientific fields have brought about radical changes in the ways we perceive and define what it means to be human in today’s highly technologically oriented society. Advancements in robotics, AI research, molecular biology, genetic engineering, nanotechnology, medicine, etc., are mostly still in an experimental phase but it is likely that they will become a part of our daily experience. However, human enhancement and emergence of autonomous artificial beings have long been a part of futures imagined in SF and cyberpunk. While focusing on the phenomenon of cyborg as a product of both social reality and fiction, this chapter will attempt to offer a new perspective on selected SF and cyberpunk narratives by treating them not only as fictions but as theories of the future as well. Furthermore, selected examples of the existing real-life cyborgs will show that SF narratives are not merely limited to the scope of imagination but are a constituent part of lived experience, thus blurring the boundaries between reality and fiction