This thesis reads the myth of the “extinction of the Slovenian nation” as an apparatus of power that, through biopolitical, nationalist, and heteronormative discourses, structures the perceptibility of bodies and the conditions of political belonging. Rather than assessing the “reality” of demographic decline, the analysis asks how affects of care, fear, and shame legitimize distinctions between lives that count and those rendered deliberately unseen. The theoretical framework combines queer-feminist, posthumanist, and affective–discursive perspectives; methodologically it draws on dispositif reading, critical discourse analysis, and the analysis of symbolic networks. Empirically, the study examines the website of the party ZA Slovenijo – Glas za otroke in družine as a visual-affective apparatus of protection that, through the signifiers “child,” “family,” and the so-called “gender theory,” naturalizes a normative future and delegitimizes deviations from it. Abortion rights, queer bodies, and LGBTIQ+ subjects are cast as an ontological excess— not merely unprotected but constituted as a threat. The central finding is that the dispositif of protection operates as a technology of control and selective ontology that pre-emptively decides which bodies may appear as the future.
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