Zbirka tekstova Barikade većim je dijelom ranije objavljena kao kolumna “Blut und Buden” u Arkzinu (od 1994. do 1996.). Prema mnogim reakcijama jedna je od najznačajnijih knjiga objavljenih u Hrvatskoj.
Boris Buden rođen je 1959, u Zagrebu. Na Zagrebačkom sveučilištu diplomirao je filozofiju, uz dopunske studije marksizma. Doktorirao je iz teorije kulture na Univerzitetu Humbolt u Berlinu. Prevodio je Frojda (“Pronađena psihoanaliza”, te “Budućnost jedne iluzije i drugi spisi”) i Lorencera (“Intimnost i socijalna patnja”). Eseje je tokom devedesetih objavljivao uglavnom u “Arkzinu”, čiji je bio i urednik.
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Sadržaj: Barikade; Prije početka: U Kninu 1990. Otpisani; Mudri Predsjednikov savjetnik Miroslav Krleža; Njegova najautentičnija autentičnost; Aralica shrvan emocijama; Agrameri lete u nebo; Djelatnici vs. najamni radnici; Popu pop, a bobu bob; Kuna i jazavac hrvatska basna; Bogu carevo, caru božije! Prorok u hramu nacionalnog duha;; Dobri plavi dječaci; Čekajući Fortinbrasa; Plivači i plutači; Dečko koji obećava; Imena luda; Tito drugi put među Hrvatima; Farsa; Osvajanje središta; Žene ne šute; O hrvatskoj šutnji; Govno na kiši; Bolje je svašta jesti nego svašta govorit; Oluja; Sapere aude.
Boris Buden is a philosopher, translator and cultural theorist. His essays and articles cover the topics of philosophy, politics, cultural and art criticism.
He studied classical and modern philosophy in Klagenfurt, Zagreb, Ljubljana, and received his PhD in Cultural Theory from the Humboldt University, Berlin. Since 1984 he has worked as a free-lance journalist and writer. Buden regularly publishes essays in German, English and French on philosophical, political, and cultural subjects pertaining to the former Yugoslavia, western Europe and the United States of America in such journals as Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse und Gesellschaftskritik, Literatur und Kritik, and the Vienna cultural magazine Springerin. In addition to his activities as a journalist Buden has made a name as a translator of Freud into Croatian. As an activist in the Yugoslavian peace movement he founded in 1993 the journal Arkzin, a cultural-political and social-critical publication devoted to international literature, art, pop culture and the new media. In addition, he is the founder and chief editor of Bastard Publishing Co. In 1998 it published the first Croatian new edition of the Communist Manifesto with a foreword by Slavoj Žižek. Buden's political activism has born fruit as a volume of essays that appeared as Barricades I and Barricades II.
Central to Buden's writing is the concept of a culturally-politically divided Europe: post-communist eastern Europe is regarded as an outsider and "bastard" of the European Union. In its exclusion, however, Buden sees the chance to define anew the universal appeal of west-European culture, for "this universal is not being reconfigured along the dividing line drawn between cultural identities, and even less upon the bulwark of multiculturalism which only freezes the existing relations, but rather it is being expressed on the barricades upon which, after all that has happened, it was born in a political and historical sense." (Based on source).
Buden is a permanent fellow at the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies (EIPCP) in Vienna and he teaches cultural theory at the Faculty of Art and Design, Bauhaus University, Weimar. He lives in Berlin.
3 samo zbog mog nedovoljnog poznavanja društveno-političkog konteksta da bih u potpunosti shvatila neke tekstove. Inače, zanimljivo.
"Ali tu nije riječ o odlascima i povratcima. Oni su u jednakoj mjeri nemogući, jer to što je dovedeno u pitanje jest samo mjesto subjekta. Čovjek se nema kamo vratiti jer nema što ni napustiti. Krležin motiv odlaska, doveden do pojma, upućuje na permanentnu dislociranost modernog čovjeka, dislociranost u egzistencijalnom vidu, ali i u smislu njegova identiteta, dakle, dislociranost unutar simboličkog univerzuma u koji smješta svoj život. Za Krležu čovjek kao takav jest egzilant, a egzilantu se, kaže Flusser, može dogoditi i da otkrije “…da čovjek nije drvo. I da se možda ljudsko dostojanstvo sastoji upravo u tome da se nema nikakva korijenja”."