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− | + | For many long years in [[left]]-wing (and not only [[left-wing]]) mythology the [[State]] appeared as the original source of [[Evil]], as a [[living]] [[dead]] sponging off the [[body]] of the [[community]]. The repressive, particularly [[ideological]] machinery of the State was presented as the [[process]] of supervising and maintaining [[discipline]], as armour shaping the healthy body of the community. The [[utopian]] perspective, which henceforth opened up towards both the radical left-wing as well as the antiliberal [[right]]-wing, was the abolition of the State or its subordination to the community. | |
− | + | Today's [[experience]], summed up in the [[word]] "Bosnia", confronts us with the [[reality]] of this utopia. | |
− | + | What we are witnessing in Bosnia is the direct consequence of the disintegration of State [[authority]] or its submission to the [[power]] play between ethnic communities - what is [[missing]] in Bosnia is a [[unified]] State authority elevated above ethnic disputes. A similar tendency can be observed in Serbia where we are again dealing with a state which is not based on the modern [[concept]] of nationhood, but has fused with the pre-state ethnic mix, and thus in Kosovo paradoxically in the same territory two states coexist: the Serbian state authority and the para-State [[agencies]] of the Republic of Kosovo. The old left-wing disinclination towards the rule of law and [[order]] has thus come face to face with its own [[truth]], manifested in Bosnia and Serbia where unsupervised local warlords are plundering, killing and settling private scores. In contrast to expectations it has become clear that there is [[nothing]] liberating [[about]] the breaking of state authority - on the contrary: we are consigned to corruption and the impervious [[game]] of local interests which are no longer restricted by a [[formal]] [[legal]] framework. | |
− | + | In a certain [[sense]] "Bosnia" is merely a [[metaphor]] for [[Europe]] as a [[whole]]. Europe is coming closer and closer to a state of non-statehood where state mechanisms are losing their binding [[character]]. The authority of the state is [[being]] eroded from the top by the trans-European regulations from Brussels and the international [[economic]] ties and from the bottom by local and ethnic interests, while none of these elements are strong enough to fully replace state authority. | |
− | From all this it is thus necessary to draw what at first glance seems a paradoxical, yet crucial conclusion: today the concept of utopia has made an about-face turn - utopian energy is no longer directed towards a stateless community, but towards a state without a nation, a state which would no longer be founded on an ethnic community and its territory, therefore simultaneously towards a state without territory, towards a purely artificial structure of principles and authority which will have severed the umbilical chords of ethnic origin, indigenousness and rootedness. | + | Thus, Etienne [[Balibar]] has altogether appropriately labeled the current [[situation]] in Europe with the syntagma "Es gibt keinen Staat in Europa" ("There is no State in Europe"). |
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+ | From all this it is thus necessary to draw what at first glance seems a paradoxical, yet crucial conclusion: today the concept of utopia has made an about-face turn - utopian [[energy]] is no longer directed towards a stateless community, but towards a state without a [[nation]], a state which would no longer be founded on an ethnic community and its territory, therefore simultaneously towards a state without territory, towards a purely artificial [[structure]] of principles and authority which will have severed the umbilical chords of ethnic origin, indigenousness and rootedness. | ||
As far as art, according to definition, is subversive in relation to the existing establishment, any art which today wants to be up to the level of its assignment must be a state art in the service of a still-non-existent country. It must abandon the celebration of islands of privacy, seemingly insulated from the machinery of authority, and must voluntarily become a small cog in this machinery, a servant to the new Leviathan, which it is summoning like the genie from the bottle. | As far as art, according to definition, is subversive in relation to the existing establishment, any art which today wants to be up to the level of its assignment must be a state art in the service of a still-non-existent country. It must abandon the celebration of islands of privacy, seemingly insulated from the machinery of authority, and must voluntarily become a small cog in this machinery, a servant to the new Leviathan, which it is summoning like the genie from the bottle. | ||
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− | * [[Es Gibt Keinen Staat In Europa]]. Ljubljana. 1993. <http://www.ljudmila.org/embassy/1a/staat.htm> | + | * [[Es Gibt Keinen Staat In Europa]]. [[Ljubljana]]. 1993. <http://www.ljudmila.org/embassy/1a/staat.htm> |
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