Slavcho Dimitrov: Anarchic Bodies: Corporeal Materialism, Affects and the Political (2025)

Sunday, 23 November at 7:00 p.m.
book presentation
Španski borci, upper foyer
Duration: 50 min.

In his book Anarchic Bodies: Corporeal Materialism, Affects and the Political (ZG Kontrapunkt – Skopje, 2025), Dimitrov tackles the concept of the political by exploring its complex and constitutive entanglement with corporeality, affects, and matter. Dimitrov looks at artworks by the artists Velimir Zernovski and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, the political protests in North Macedonia known as the Colourful Revolution, and the subcultural and punk scene in Ljubljana during the socialist 1980s.

The central problem and the question of his research endeavour is: how can we imagine and enact the political as radical difference – signifying the groundless, contingent, abyssal, and disruptive moment – making im/possible the very grounding of society, if we set the body as an agential, dynamic, transformative, excessive, and relational world, forming materiality, at the centre of our understanding of political ontology. In order to pursue this project, Dimitrov sets some of the core philosophers of the post-foundational philosophical canon such as Jean-Luc Nancy, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, and Jacques Rancière in critical dialogue with the trans-disciplinary scholarship of corporeal feminism, new materialisms, affect and body studies.

The discussion with Slavcho Dimitrov will be moderated by Urban Belina.

* This discussion will be held in English.
Organised by: Kino Šiška and NDA Slovenia in collaboration with En-Knap

Free entry

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Cover photo: Žarko Čulic