Thesis theorizes Kraj as an affective infrastructure at the junction of post-traumatic and protective shame. Kraj is not a toponym but an analytical conception of an affective infrastructure of inscription – a topology of relations among bodies, language, gazes, norms, and institutions that set the boundaries of readability and visibility (the psychoanalytic partition of pure/impure, public/private). Kraj manifests in micro-practices and rhetoric (deferral, hermeticism, self-censorship), in spatial routines, and in field rules. In the thesis it functions both as a reading method (a map of shame) and as an object of analysis—it describes how shame distributes access to recognition. I introduce the notion of an abject economy, which describes the hierarchical slippage of the abject across the social body—from centers of symbolic power toward the margins—continuously translated into stigma, border control, and practices of exclusion. I criticize the field myth of »contribution«: novelty is not a property of the text, but primarily an effect of positioning and capital (in the sociological sense). I advance two theses: (1) shame is a response to the short-circuit of an attempt at recognition (address, confession) – the gesture returns as misunderstanding or ridicule; (2) shame is an effect of suspended mourning – when communal rituals of recognition are absent, loss cannot be socially translated into meaning – here, crucially, the loss being mourned is that of a socially undesirable relationship. Methodologically, I employ performative auto-theory: a diary fragment serves as a »reading laboratory« and I transfer this protocol to three case studies. In Bastašić I read shame as the seal of unacknowledged loss; in Pešut, field selection and the myth of contribution appear as key generators of short-circuits; in Édouard Louis, the classed abjection of the body is analyzed as a sequence of breaks in recognition. I conclude by advocating the defetishization of affect through communal practices of recognition and a rewriting of the map of Kraj: resistance emerges where short-circuits are translated into narrative, organization, and solidarity.
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