Summary
Ljiljana Filipović: Empty factories
Imagine that you are entering a silent workspace. Into a classroom where no one will ever enter, into an empty newsroom, an abandoned bookstore, a movie theater that no one is interested in, a furniture salon filled only by an acting troupe, into an empty space of creation. For Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, the unconscious is the factory (1972, p. 31). Empty factories play with the question: What if the factory halls are empty? If there is no unconscious that we would rely on to amnesty our symptoms? What if we got fed up with it and destroyed it like Nada Dimić's factory in the political-economic transition, with workers on the road because the work that guaranteed safety disappeared? To what extent is the mechanism of concepts, which were created to make it easier to move in the circus of civilization, our destiny? However, both the empty space and the memories fill up quickly. There is a possibility of selection. But also the reluctance to choose her...
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