The irreducible chaos of the postmodern spectacularised JFK event

Škerjanec, Blaž (author)

The following contribution attempts to problematise the JFK event by mapping modes of becoming as forms of departure from conventional socio-political structures, thereby introducing an anti-genealogical theoretical approach. The text constructs a concept of the event that parts from fidelity to a retrospectively created Badiouian Event on one hand, and on the other places an excessive libidinal Deleuzo-Guattarian and Lyotardian event in its lieu. A special emphasis is given to presenting the intersections between molar lines and the explosion of molecular moments within (and outside of) the so-called JFK event in order to indicate that a single interpretation of an event cannot become truly hegemonic. In this respect, the article focuses on presenting a critical analysis of Debord's theory of the Society of the Spectacle by providing the above-mentioned molecular instances; specifically, the article sketches out a vague transition from the subversive actions of the pop art and Beatnik movements to the JFK event in order to demystify Debord's Spectacle and Badiou's Event.

• Language: English
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Year: 2013
• Number of pages: Str. 880-894, 910
• Numbering: Letn. 50, št. 5/6
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-85327
• UDC: 141.78:316.7
• ISSN on article: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 32433501
• Publication date in RUL: 20.09.2016

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Teorija in praksa : revija za družbena vprašanja
• Shortened title: Teor. praksa
• Publisher: Visoka šola za politične vede, Visoka šola za politične vede, Visoka šola za sociologijo, politične vede in novinarstvo, Fakulteta za sociologijo, politične vede in novinarstvo, Fakulteta za družbene vede
• ISSN: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 763652

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian

Abstract

Pričujoči prispevek problematizira dogodek JFK prek uvedbe antigenealoškega teoretičnega pristopa, to je kartiranja modusov postajanja kot oblik odhoda od konvencionalnih družbenopolitičnih struktur. Besedilo se zavezuje k ustvarjanju koncepta dogodka, ki se loči od zvestobe retrospektivno ustvarjenega Badioujovega Dogodka in na njegovo mesto postavlja ekscesen libidinalen dogodek, utemeljen na filozofijah Deleuza, Guattarija in Lytorda. Da bi pokazal, kako ena sama interpretacija dogodka ne more postati zares hegemonska, članek poseben poudarek posveča navzkrižjem molarnih linij in eksplozijam molekularnih momentov znotraj (in zunaj) tako imenovanega dogodka JFK. V tem oziru se besedilo osredinja okoli kritične analize Debordove teorije družbe spektakla, ki jo podkrepi z navajanjem zgoraj navedenih molekularnih utrinkov. Natančneje, prispevek oriše ne popolnoma jasen prehod od subverzivnih dejanj pop arta in bitnikov do dogodka JFK, da bi demistificiral Debordov Spektakel in Badioujev Dogodek.