Author
MOČNIK Rastko
Rastko Močnik teaches the theory of discourse, the theory of ideology and the epistemology of human and social sciences at Ljubljana University, in Slovenia. He co-directs the international council of Critical social studies' Institute in Sofia and Plovdiv, in Bulgaria. He is member of the international council of the journal Eszmélet (Budapest), member of the international council of the journal Sociologicheski problemi, Sociology Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of sciences (Sofia) and member of the editorial board of the /*cf. editions (Ljubljana). He is doctor honoris causa of "Paisiy Hilendarski" University in Plovdiv (2005).
Recent publications
3 theories: idéology, nation, institution [in serbian] – 3 teorije : ideologija, nacija, institucija (Edicija Vesela nauka, 2003, 2). Belgrade: Centar za savremenu umetnost, 2003. XIX, 217 p.
The joy of watching [in slovenian] – Veselje v gledanju. Ljubljana: Zalozba /*cf., 2007, 125 p.
Regulation of the particular and its socio-political effects. In: Tarabout, Gilles and Samaddar, Ranabir (éd.). Conflict, Power, and the Landscape of Constitutionalism. Routledge: London – New York – New Delhi, 2008, pp.182 – 209.
Entretien avec Rastko Mocnik : La nouvelle chair à canon : la créativité périphérique prise dans l'étau de la lutte des élites. In : Terreurs et terrorismes (Rue Descartes, 62). Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 2008, pp. 80-95.
Le passé de l’Est sera-t-il l’avenir de l’Ouest ? – Will the East’s past be the West’s future ?. In : David, Caroline et aliae (éd.). Frontières invisibles – Invisible Borders. Lille : stichting kunstboek – Lille 3000, 2009, pp. 170 – 173.
Ce que la mémoire fait à l’histoire. In : Vauday, Patrick, Zupanc, Paula, Mocnik, Rastko, Rotar, Drago B. (éd.). Histoire de l’oubli en contextes postsocialiste et postcolonial. Koper : Annales, 2009, pp. 215 – 234.
Writings in Human sciences [in slovenian] – Spisi iz humanistike. Ljubljana: Zalozba, 2009, 537 p.
Quand l’expert répond au journaliste pour éduquer le public. In : Figures du Maître ignorant : savoir et émancipation. Saint-Étienne : Publications de l’Université de Saint-Étienne, 2010, pp. 225 – 244.
Articles
Excess Memory
Rastko MOČNIK
31 March 2010
The interferences between historiographical procedures and the personal memory of the historian are a familiar problem for the historiography of the present time. The two cases of such interferences analysed in the present text are interesting in that, as contemporaries, they remember more than their scientific apparatus is capable of integrating. The incapacity to integrate into their presentations and historiographical analyses certain processes and practices that are nevertheless important in their time (and for that reason well remembered by the historian as subject), exposes the historian to the risk of suffering the effects of spontaneous or manipulated politics of memory, arising from the epoch in which he writes his narrative. Starting from the “excess of memory” in the texts of two eminent historians, we hope to be able to tackle some difficulties in the history of Yugoslavian socialist self-management.