The Likeness is a close ethnographic study of subjectivity in the former Yugoslav republic of Slovenia. In this highly imaginative work, the author argues that much of what matters in Slovenia plays out on surfaces—of people and things, systems and locations—rendering the complexity of expression external and legible, but rarely unique or original. Here likenesses are everywhere in bloom and powerfully deployed. Moving blithely from Slovenia’s most famous thinkers to its most confounding artists, from grammatical categories of number to the particularities of history,
The Likeness explores alternative modes of self-expression as postsocialist Slovenia gains visibility on the world stage.
Table of Content
List of Illustrations
Preface: Andandpersand
Introduction
I. Of Semblances and . . .
II. Of Selves
A Break in the Pattern
Chapter 1
I. Walter Benjamin, Ljubljana, 1986
II. Walter Benjamin (et al.) Speaks His Mind,
Ljubljana, 1986 (2001, 2003)
Chapter 2
I. Technologies of Self-Protection
II. “By the very cunning of the scene”
Portraits of a Three-Headed Mountain
(1968, 2004, 2007)
Chapter 3
I. Two in the Same: Janez Janša, Janez Janša,
Janez Janša, and Janez Janša
II. This Is Going to Hurt a Little
Chapter 4
I. Is Slavoj Žižek Full of Shit?
II. More on the Same Subject
Chapter 5
I. Inside the Body Is Blood and Bone
II. “ . . . or at least fail while trying”
Afterword: Melania Trump (née Melanija Knavs)
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Gretchen Bakke is a cultural anthropologist at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt University in Berlin. She is the author of The Grid: The Fraying Wires between Americans and Our Energy Future and a coeditor of Between Matter and Method: Encounters in Anthropology and Art and Anthropology of the Arts: A Reader.
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