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Ivan Milenkovic

Ivan Milenković (1965), philosopher by education, translator by vocation, critic by temperament. He deals with political and contemporary French philosophy. Published three books, more than 40 scientific papers and translated ten books from the French language. Member of the NIN jury from 2018 to 2021. He has been writing for Vreme for a quarter of a century.

Intellectual reportage: Polish Literary Institute in Paris (1)

Freedom is always an opinion about freedom

And what does all this have to do with Serbia? Actually, much more than we might assume at first glance. Instead of fueling hatred towards Germans and Russians - and she would have every right in the world to do that - or to lament over the evil fate of Poland, which was not the first time in history that it found itself between the Russian hammer and the German anvil (or vice versa), Poland Culture he thinks about the future of Poland, first of all, in relations with the "archenemies" and the biggest evildoers. Experience, therefore, that Serbia desperately lacks. Magazine Culture and the Polish Literary Institute in Paris offer not only signposts for a disoriented Serbia, but also tools with which political freedom can be installed

None of us has the right to give up our freedom. It is unacceptable to lose heart. Leaving the last line of defense is unacceptable.

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The last line of defense: He's done!

None of us have the right to give up our freedom. It is unacceptable to lose heart. Leaving the last line of defense is unacceptable. Because the barbarian attack on prosecutors and judges is their last attack. Beyond that is the abyss

Interview: Relja Dražić, translator and publisher

The man may be becoming redundant

Austrian literature holds me in its gravitational field with its courage and aesthetically extraordinarily powerful ability to productively confront the myth of itself as "Hitler's victim".

Nikola Selaković and Vladimir Đukanović before the Prosecutor's Office for organized crime with the presence of regime TV crews

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Performance and overexertion

The performance of the Minister of Culture Nikola Selaković in connection with the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime does not, admittedly, exude special acting talent, but it faithfully portrays the nature of the progressive government.

Interview: Lana Vasiljević, sculptor

Work slows down events.

In the "Archaeology of Memories" project, I photograph houses in one part of Belgrade, then process them monochromatically, then print them on clay tiles and later intervene with a drawing. The process of building a world takes a long time, and we tend to tear it down and replace it at a moment's notice. I think there is something in that, in those houses... Surviving for hundreds of years, like a secret. In this urban vortex, various building paradoxes are encountered, as well as carelessness in the treatment of nature, which was dominant there before.

A tent settlement in front of the National Assembly

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Order and culture

Even the Nazis and Communists understood that without basic legal certainty and culture, one cannot rule. However, Vučić's primitive team is not

The regime and the church

A small group of unusual believers

A question for the church staff: if there is nothing Christian in the demeanor and speech of Aleksandar Vučić and his entourage, why do the priests even allow that group to come to the house of God for painting and applied acting?

Dijana Hrka: Hunger strike

Community pain

Diana Hrka's pain from this moment on is the pain of every citizen of Serbia, who preserved the core of humanity in the inhuman regime of Aleksandar Vučić

Novopazar students from Mrčajevci kiss and hug local residents

Regime against citizens

It is not a civil war, but a cultural war

Being in Novi Sad on November 1st means opposing the anti-political regime of Aleksandar Vučić with culture as politics. It means carrying, along with your body, a set of values ​​that the regime seeks to suppress

Vučić in front of the Parliament

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An essay on the inverted language

Since he cannot say "loyalty is more important to me than honor", Aleksandar Vučić will say that he is an honorable man. There are countless such examples. In philosophy, this is called a performative contradiction: by uttering a value judgment, one falls into one's own mouth

Češka

Andrej Babiš for the second time among the Czechs

There is every chance that the Motoristi, a bizarre fringe group whose unofficial leader Filip Turek was banned because of pro-Nazi posts on social networks, will also join the new Babiš government, and by the way, he is also a collector of Nazi artifacts, in other words, an undisguised fascist. On the other hand, they are called motorists because they are against the abolition of the internal combustion engine, which, as we can see, is an extremely complex political program and proof that today, unfortunately, any bizarreness can pass

The battle for public space

A lie in politics

Love of truth, says Hannah Arendt, has never been counted among the political virtues. Does this mean that the essence of truth lies in its impotence, and the essence of politics lies in treachery? Well, if so, doesn't powerless truth deserve the same amount of contempt as power that doesn't care about truth

Interview: Klara Vlasakova, writer

Change is the only certainty in our lives

Often readers tell me that the book gives them discomfort, sometimes nightmares. My goal, of course, is not to make anyone feel bad, but at the same time, I don't know the purpose of writing that just slips away and leaves no impression, no scent, no memory. In that sense, I'm glad that Cracks they arouse emotions, questions. Discomfort