Prof. Dr. Žarko Paić

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Graduated at the Faculty of Political Science of the Zagreb University, M.A. in philosophy at the same university, he completed a PhD in sociology at the Faculty of Humanities in Zagreb. He is the main editor of TVRĐA – Journal for Theory, Culture and Visual Arts, deputy editor of the European Messenger, a member of the International editorial board of IMAGES: Journal for Visual Studies, PHILOSOPHY STUDY and PHAINOMENA. He has won international awards for literature of Central European countries by Austrian Foundation KULTURKONTAKT from Vienna in 2008.

Some of his most recent publications are:

  • The Return of Totalitarianism: Ideology, Terror, and Total Control (Berlin, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
  • Fashion Theory and the Visual Semiotics of the Body (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022)
  •  Art and the Technosphere. The Platforms of Strings (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022)
  • “The Technosphere as a New Aesthetic” ‎ (In: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022)
  • “Moć, masa i brutalnost. Putinov ratni stroj” (In: Europski glasnik-Le Messager europée, N°27, 2022, pp. 367-387)
  • “Dostojanstvo života. Misaoni put Hansa Jonasa” (In: Europski glasnik-Le Messager européen, N°27, 2022, pp. 599- 610)
  • “Metafilm ili o živoj singularnosti mišljenja – Gilles Deleuze i obrat metafizike slike” (In: Tvrđa – časopis za teoriju, kulturu i vizualne umjetnosti, N°1-2, 2022, pp. 153- 165)
  • “Između Jeruzalema i Atene–Leo Strauss i granice političke filozofije” (In: Tvrđa-časopis za teoriju, kulturu i vizualne umjetnosti, N°1-2, 2022, pp. 103- 117)
  • Aesthetics and the Iconoclasm of Contemporary Art: Pictures Without a World (Berlin, Springer Verlag 2021)
  • “¿Triunfo mesiánico de la ética? Emmanuel Lévinas y la aporía en el pensamiento del Otro” (En: Cuestiones de Filosofía, Vol. 7 Núm. 28, 2021, pp. 53-92)
  • “Event of the Moment: Time in Contemporary Art. (In: Aesthetics and the Iconoclasm of Contemporary Art. Springer Briefs in Philosophy. Springer, 2021)
  • “Technosphere as the Absolute? Hegel and the end of metaphysics” (In: Dijalog-Časopis za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju, No. 1, 2021)
  • “Le Messager européen” (In: Europski glasnik, No. 26, 2021)
  • “Technosphere A New Digital Aesthetics? The Body As Event, Interactivity And Visualisation Of Ideas” (In: tvrdja, 2021)
  • “Nihilism and History. What Remained of Postmodernity?” (In: Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 41, No 3, 2021)
  • The Spheres of Existence – Three Studies on Kierkegaard (2021).
  • “Zatvoreno društvo O Foucaultovu dispozitivu moći” (In: Zeničke sveske-Časopis za društvenu fenomenologiju i kulturnu dijalogiku, N°33-34, 2021, pp. 275-308)
  • “Tragedija bez patnje? O tajni suvremene egzistencije” (In: Zeničke sveske-Časopis za društvenu fenomenologiju i kulturnu dijalogiku, N°33-34, 2021, pp. 24-51)
  • “Besmrtnost bez tajne” (In: Tvrđa-časopis za teoriju, kulturu i vizualne umjetnosti, N°1-2, 2021, pp. 95-111)
  • “U znaku homo laboransa” (In:  Europski glasnik-Le Messager européen, N°26, 2021, pp. 669- 688)
  • “Rilkeova oporuka. Nihilizam kao Unheimlichkeit. Zapisi uz Devinske elegije” (In: KNJIŽEVNA REPUBLIKA, časopis za književnost, N°01+06, 2021, pp. 215-239)
  • “Prikaz knjige Krešimira Petkovića” (In: Tvrđa-časopis za teoriju, kulturu i vizualne umjetnosti, N°1-2, 2021, pp. 306-308)
  • “Galovićev put mišljenja” (In: Tvrđa-časopis za teoriju, kulturu i vizualne umjetnosti, N°1-2, 2021, pp. 6-9)
  • “Na putu bez povratka” (In : Europski glasnik-Le Messager européen, N°26, 2021, pp. 269-290)
  • “Tehnosfera kao apsolut? Hegel i kraj metafizike” (In: Dijalog-Časopis za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju, N°1-2, 2021, pp.105-133)
  • “Što je to postimperijalna suverenost? Uz Nomos zemlje–Carl Schmitt i kritičko čitanje Hanne Arendt” (In: Politička Misao, Vol. 58, N°03, 2021, pp.77-104)
  • Neoliberalism, Oligarchy and the Politics of the Event – At the Edge of Chaos (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020)
  • “University and Technosphere: The End of Humanities and the Possibility of Reversal” (In: Anafora, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2020, pp. 313-338)
  • “Synaesthetic Without Sensitivity? The Body as a Technological Construction” (In: Philosophy Study, Vol. 9, No. 6, 2019. pp. 333-354)
  • “Zombie Book. On Programmed Future and Writing Without the Ultimate Purpose” (In: Sztuka i demokracja, No. 17, 2019)
  • “An-Arché as the Voice of the People: Jacques Rancière and the Politics of Disagreement” (In: International Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2019, pp. 1-16)
  • White Holes and the Visualization of the Body (London, Palgrave Macmillan 2019)
  • Andjeo povijesti i mesija dogadjaja: Umjetnost-politika-tehnika u djelu Waltera Benjamina (Fakultet za medije i komunikacije – Univerzitet Singidunum, 2018)
  • What does it mean to be an alien? Bernhard Waldenfels and politics of responsive interculturalism. (In: Filozofija i društvo / Philosophy and Society, Vol. 29, No. 3, 2018, Pp. 355-376)
  • “Creativity, Body-Design and Contemporary Fashion: The Deconstruction of the Luxury” (In: International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, Vol. 8, No. 4. 2018, p. 69-77)
  • “Identity as a Power Apparatus: The end of Ideology or Politics of Multiculturalism?” (In: Politička Misao, No. 1, 2012)
  • “Preobrazbe biopolitike” (In: Politička misao, Vol. 46 No. 1, 2009, pp. 7-27).
 

He is a member of the Croatian Writers Society, the Croatian PEN Centre, Croatian Philosophical Society and the Society for Advanced Philosophy, Kierkegaard Institute, ForHum, Institute for European and Globalization studies, and he is a head of the scientific research project IMAGE SCIENCE: VISUALIZATION AND CONTEMPORARY ART at the Center for Visual Studies in Zagreb.