Jernej Mlekuž in his article discusses the burekalism – a style of thought based on an ontological and epistemological distinction made between a population and place defined by the burek and a population and place not defined by the burek, or in other words: between “immigrants” and “Slovenians”. The article also delas with different theoretical questions of symbolic aspect of material culture. The research was published in Annales magazine (with AHCI index).
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This paper tackles the relations between bodies and material culture through the affect theory. The visceral forces of affect, beneath, alongside, or generally other than conscious awareness, emerge from virtual, intermediate reality or change, as an excess of potential relatedness. Before bodies act, if they act, at all, bodies are affected by encounters. Bodies are thus seen as cumulative processes shaped by forces of encounters with the material world, rather than as biological givens. Thus, the paper explores the unique ways in which material culture affect bodies, and how these affected bodies can form new societies.
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The papers of Jernej Mlekuž problematize theoretical and methodological bases of the project. The investigation of objects that are symbolically very highly charged can draw us very quickly into discursive analysis, leaving the question of their materiality itself untouched (that is not the aim of the project).
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