Mikulić Borislav: Kroatorij Europe

Borislav Mikulić: Kroatorij Europe

The texts collected in this book are newspaper essays written for Slobodna Dalmacija, more precisely for SD Forum. Contribution for cultural transition, and, to a lesser extent, for SD Magazin. This origin and purpose determines to a considerable extent their genre character of philosophical-theoretical journalism, applied to "daily" events and inoculated against the virus of seriousness, sublimity or constructiveness that normally adorns philosophers with a sense of a "historical" or "national" moment. cultural, scientific and media space of Croatia in the last period of the so-called the third January government and the first period of the so-called re-rule of the reformed HDZ, which rules with its partners as grotesquely as the first coalition group ruled since January 3, 2000.

The texts were not written (nor planned) in the genre of a newspaper column. They are, based on theoretical assumptions and material that normally belongs to semiotics, attempts at philosophical journalism in which events are not simplified or explained, but presented and interpreted in their complexity.

"Everything was decided the moment Mirko Filipović appeared on the scene of Ultimate Fight in a dress from a black t-shirt to the crotch. Neither the evil-sounding inscription "Zvonimir Security" nor the thick Herculean legs made him This clumsy performance of denying the decadent glamor of the scene with the help of the mere rawness of the body, the sullen look and the sullen face, the asceticism of the peasant-policeman's form against the sensual theatricality of the blister-cloak and hood alla Minotauro, was immediately punished: just like Nogueira, he received a large bouquet of flowers, erectly protruding in pink tone and the consequences for the warrior Mirko are obvious: the white fat Mirko succumbed to the black lithe Minotaur from the sight of which allegedly "turns his stomach for three days". desexualized snuff homo-porn, and that's why it's deliriously enjoyed with side effects like stomach flipping, or changing the TV channel.

If at the moment of Filipović's strangulation and crushing between Nogueira's legs, the entire mythic structure about the unstoppable "Croatian man" on all world stages fell, Mirko's furious tears after the fight, due to personal defeat and dissatisfaction with the "high expectations of Croats", write a circle of ideology with a thick mark bodies-without-ideology that only want themselves".