Opsang til det hele – Om sang og politik hos Mladen Dolar og Slavoj Žižek

The article presents and is an introduction to a theory of the voice, as it is put forth by Slavoj Žižek and Mladen Dolar, and in the discourse of psychoanalysis.It is developed as a reading of the ‘incident in London’, where Žižek wanted to engage the audience of an academic conference in a performance of The Internationale. The article is thus also about a possible connection of singing and politics

Anvendt forskning i umulige professioner

The article raises some central questions regarding applied research by focusing on Sigmund Freud’s concept of “impossible professions”, e.g. educating, healing, and governing. It contributes with a discussion of the impasses and impossibilities of working professionally with subjects, not objects. To work with subjects requires not only (applied and effective) knowledge, but also the willingness to confront human actions and vicissitudes outside the framework of knowledge, as well as the disposition of the professional to give latitude to the subject. The article argues for these points through the lens of Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalytic approaches. The overall project of the text is to argue for the expediency of the concept of the impossible in understanding and researching professional practice

Redaktionelt forord - den slovenske skole

Med dette nummer om ’Den slovenske skole’ giver Slagmark den første bredere introduktion til den slovenske tænkning for et nordisk publikum. Den slovenske skoles frække dreng og mest prominente filosof, Slavoj Žižek, vil måske være kendt for de fleste, men nummeret behandler også den alvidende klasselærer, Mladen Dolar, og skolens nye superelev, Alenka Zupanči