Against the Media – The Media of Resistance

Contemporary praxis of mediation, and a phenomenon usually known as »media theory«, brings with itself the issue of epochal break with traditional culture of textuality, and all inherited ways of knowledge transmission. This represents conceptual narrowing of media to machines for electronic and digital processing of verbal, visual and sonic information. McLuhan`s hot media of print and papers were replaced, at the beginning, by cold media of TV and movies, and finally, by even cooler medium, the computer, and »the coolest of all cold beasts« – the mobile phone! This paper is directed against media. But, for critical discourse on media and its manipulative role, it is necessary to know how to use properly – the very same media! Besides this, it is the intention of this strategy to use it as political weapon/toolkit. Only then, we should say that post-ideological ideology of overwhelming domination of culture is deconstructed. »The world after media« (Agentur BILWET) is in fact a political slogan that leads this paper

(Digital) Theory or Philosophy? On Meaningfulness of Philosophical Engagement

Question asked in this presentation is: does philosophy has any sense in overwhelming atmosphere of theoretic discourse, most often shaped by digital technology? Does philosophy still has the power of social engagement? Do philosophers have still been invited to explicate »social life«? Following the example of one digitally predetermined theory (Roško) the dangers of non-inclusion (primarily radically found out) philosophy in contemporary discourses have been put into consideration. Yes for Philosophy, but N o for empirical transparency of »philosophers« on local level

IN SEARCH OF THE COMMUNITY. SOME PHILOSOPHICAL ELABORATIONS OF (BIO)POLITICAL THEORY

Članak pokušava ponovno iznijeti na svjetlo dana filozofsko pozicioniranje mogućnosti konstitucije (političke) zajednice. Jedno od osnovnih pitanja svake političke teorije jest upravo ono o zajednici stoga što je paradigma liberalne demokracije, koja prevladava u suvremenom svjetskom poretku, posve potisnula aktualitet pitanja o političkoj zajednici. Članak nas u temu uvodi preko biopolitičke filozofije. Radi se ponajprije o elaboracijama Roberta Esposita o zajedničkom korijenu termina communitas i immunitas. Nadalje, izvodi se vrlo relevantna analiza filozofskog pristupa zajednici koje se poduhvaća Jean- -Luc Nancy. Slijedi Espositov pokušaj dovođenja u vezu demokracije i zajednice. Na koncu, još se jednom pokušavaju osmisliti mogući filozofijski, ali i praktički putevi za tematiziranje zajednice.This article attempts to bring out again into the light of day the philosophic positioning of the possibility to constitute a (political) community. One of the basic questions of every political theory is precisely the one regarding community, since the paradigm of liberal democracy, which prevails in the contemporary world order, has completely suppressed its actual relevance. The article introduces its subject matter through biopolitical philosophy. This refers, above all, to elaborations of Roberto Esposito on the common root of the terms communitas and immunitas. Furthermore, a highly relevant analysis of the philosophical approach to community is derived, as undertaken by Jean-Luc Nancy, which is followed by Esposito’s attempt at establishing a connection between democracy and community. Finally, it is attempted once more to conceive possible philosophical, but also practical ways of thematizing community