Fetishizing Violence on Stage: Performing, Narrating and “Aestheticizing” the Balkan Wars

Narrating war in semi-documentary performances enables making sense of complicated and chaotic war development, but at its downside, power relations, stereotypes and mystification of survivors\u27 positions have been easily manipulated by different sides. The proposed article aims to reveal narrations in four performances: Letter from 1920 (by Oliver Frljić), The bridge over the blood (by Damir Avdić) and Turbo Paradiso (by Andras Urban) and Crossing the line (by Dijana Milošević) in order to tackle and suppress potential stereotypes, partial representations and interpretations of the Balkan war. It investigates the intentions and approaches of interpreting war in theatre, and how those narrations contribute to remembering and social judgement toward or against war crimes during the war in Balkans in 90s. The fact that narratives are not neutral requires questioning their subjections and the position of the individual or the group who creates and disseminates them. The specific set of theatre images of victims/survivors and perpetrators in the proposed performances will be analyzed in order to outline the prevailing discourse and duties it serves, using it documentary or even testifying components, transforming them into performative art

Identification and Subjectivation

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Cosmopolitanism as critical theory: an analysis of the ethics, methodology and practice of critical cosmopolitanism

Cosmopolitan thought in recent scholarship is often used in either a prescriptive or a descriptive manner. It is thus most commonly understood as a research agenda for the prescription of various ethico-political projects or a description of the social and political world beyond national frameworks. In both cases cosmopolitanism seems to be mostly understood as a set of assumptions about the social world. This thesis aims to underline cosmopolitanism’s critical characteristics and its capability to engage with the social world in a critical and therefore transformative manner. There has been relatively scarce scholarship on critical cosmopolitanism, a gap that the thesis closes by focusing on cosmopolitanism’s capacity for critical intervention. In this study, the contribution of cosmopolitanism to critical thought is evaluated and advanced. Possessing an unparalleled ability to understand things and change them in the light of universalism, cosmopolitanism can be explored as a kind of critical theory that has a distinct agenda and normative guidance. In order to achieve this, the thesis looks at a version of critical theory that is in certain respects most akin to cosmopolitanism, that is, Axel Honneth’s critical theory and his theory of recognition, and connects the two in a way that shows both the cosmopolitanism’s possession of critical heory’s main features and its differences from Honneth’s critical theory. It is proposed that cosmopolitanism can be regarded as a critical theory with the concept of recognition as its main framework, but also that it differs from Honneth’s theory in its understanding of world disclosure and holding to more universalist and utopian claims. While cosmopolitanism can be understood as being critical, it can also be used as an enhancement of the existing conceptualisation of recognition relationships through cosmopolitanism’s universalist dimensions

The Central Star Candidate of the Planetary Nebula Sh2-71: Photometric and Spectroscopic Variability

We present the analysis of several newly obtained and archived photometric and spectroscopic datasets of the intriguing and yet poorly understood 13.5-mag central star candidate of the bipolar planetary nebula Sh2-71. Photometric observations confirmed the previously determined quasi-sinusoidal lightcurve with a period of 68 days and also indicated periodic sharp brightness dips, possibly eclipses, with a period of 17.2 days. In addition, the comparison between U and V lightcurves revealed that the 68-day brightness variations are accompanied by a variable reddening effect of $\Delta E(U-V)=0.38$. Spectroscopic datasets demonstrated pronounced variations in spectral profiles of Balmer, helium and singly ionised metal lines and indicated that these variations occur on a time-scale of a few days. The most accurate verification to date revealed that spectral variability is not correlated with the 68-day brightness variations. The mean radial velocity of the observed star was measured to be $\sim$26 km/s with an amplitude of $\pm$40 km/s. The spectral type was determined to be B8V through spectral comparison with synthetic and standard spectra. The newly proposed model for the central star candidate is a Be binary with a misaligned precessing disc.Comment: 9 pages, 6 figures (main article). 7 pages, 6 figures (appendix). Accepted for publication in MNRA

Analysis of Queue Length Reduction at Interchange Lučko

Čvor Lučko značajni je interregionalni čvor na kojem se križaju zagrebačka obilaznica i Jadranska avenija na koju se nakon čvora Lučko nastavlja autocesta A1/A6 (Zagreb – Karlovac – Split/Rijeka). Čvor karakterizira veliko prometno opterećenje koje je posebno izraženo u ljetnim mjesecima kada predstavlja poveznicu turističkog prometa kontinentalne Hrvatske te srednje i istočne Europe sa jadranskom obalom. Dodatna otežana okolnost je to što je 500 metara nakon čvora naplatna postaja Lučko za ulazak na autocestu A1, koja u vršnim prometnim opterećenjima uzrokuje formiranje redova čekanja koji se protežu i na zagrebačku obilaznicu narušavajući time funkcioniranje lokalnog prometa. U radu će se raščlambom na jednostavnije segmente detaljno analizirati uloga čvora Lučko u mreži, njegovi konstrukcijski elementi koji utječu na propusnu moć i sigurnost prometa, odnos ponude i potražnje te poveznica problematike čvora Lučko sa naplatnom postajom Lučko. Potom će se dati prijedlozi rješenja, te isti evaluirati simulacijskim modeliranjem u programskom alatu PTV Vissim.Node Lučko is a significant inter-regional interchange on which the Zagreb bypass and Adriatic avenue are crossed and after which continues motorway A1 / A6 (Zagreb - Karlovac - Split / Rijeka). A node is characterized by a large traffic volume, which is particularly evident in the summer months when it represents a link of turist traffic from continental Croatia and Central and Eastern Europe to the Adriatic coast. Additional aggravated circumstance is that 500 meters after the junction is toll plaza, which in peak traffic flows causes the formation of queues that stretch on the Zagreb bypass and reduce quality of local traffic. The thesis with analysis of the junction segments analyzes in detail the role of node Lučko in the network, design elements that affect capacity and traffic safety, supply and demand relation and problems with Lučko toll plazas. Then proposals for solution, and evaluation with simulation modeling in the program tool PTV Vissim will be given