Overview

The Likeness is a close ethnographic study of subjectivity in the former Yugoslav republic of Slovenia. In this highly imaginative work, the author argues that much of what matters in Slovenia plays out on surfaces—of people and things, systems and locations—rendering the complexity of expression external and legible, but rarely unique or original. Here likenesses are everywhere in bloom and powerfully deployed. Moving blithely from Slovenia’s most famous thinkers to its most confounding artists, from grammatical categories of number to the particularities of history, The Likeness explores alternative modes of self-expression as postsocialist Slovenia gains visibility on the world stage.

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Author:   Gretchen Bakke, Ph.D.
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Volume:   13
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780520320031

ISBN 10:   0520320034
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   19 May 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations  Preface: Andandpersand  Introduction I. Of Semblances and . . .  II. Of Selves  A Break in the Pattern  Chapter 1 I. Walter Benjamin, Ljubljana, 1986  II. Walter Benjamin (et al.) Speaks His Mind, Ljubljana, 1986 (2001, 2003)  Chapter 2 I. Technologies of Self-Protection  II. “By the very cunning of the scene”  Portraits of a Three-Headed Mountain (1968, 2004, 2007)  Chapter 3 I. Two in the Same: Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, and Janez Janša  II. This Is Going to Hurt a Little  Chapter 4 I. Is Slavoj Žižek Full of Shit?  II. More on the Same Subject  Chapter 5 I. Inside the Body Is Blood and Bone  II. “ . . . or at least fail while trying”  Afterword: Melania Trump (née Melanija Knavs)  Bibliography  Index

Reviews

"""We encounter here a unique and provocative twist in the quest to depict Slovenia and the Slovenes. . . . A skillful pen, evoking deadly sincerity and a chuckle with the same stroke, is an invitation to explore this unconventional narrative."" * Slovene Studies *"

We encounter here a unique and provocative twist in the quest to depict Slovenia and the Slovenes. . . . A skillful pen, evoking deadly sincerity and a chuckle with the same stroke, is an invitation to explore this unconventional narrative. * Slovene Studies *

Author Information

Gretchen Bakke is a cultural anthropologist at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt University in Berlin. She is the author of The Grid: The Fraying Wires between Americans and Our Energy Future and a coeditor of Between Matter and Method: Encounters in Anthropology and Art and Anthropology of the Arts: A Reader.

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