Summary
Matko Meštrović: Will the future come to us?
Matko Meštrović describes the wisdom of simplicity in this collection. The way to get to know her is not easy, but it is still simple. Poetry represents the opening of the door to another, otherworldly, unknown, mirror, interpretation: Meštrović stared at himself as another. In a kind of auto(po)ethical analysis, the basic terms look for their counterbalance and a new gravity that would keep the reader in the orbit of meaning.
I don't have the strength to imagine
let alone avoid
if I knew whether it was good or bad
that something was in sight
I would rather join the non-existence
as the safest refuge
of everything possible
Matko Meštrović is an art historian and social theorist. He graduated and received his doctorate in Design Theory at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. He was the director of the Croatian Institute of Culture (1987–92), professor at the Interfaculty Study of Design (1991–94), scientific adviser at the Institute of Economics (from 1993–2005). He was a member of the artistic group Gorgona, one of the founders and theoreticians of New Tendencies (1961) and a member of the editorial board of the magazine Bit-international (1968-72). It advocates the improvement of industrial and design culture and deals with the problems of contemporary social development. Major works: From the Individual to the General (1967/2005), Patternless Outlines (1978), Design Theory and Environmental Problems (1980), World, Consciousness and Dependence (1983), Commodity and Freedom (1995), Time really(2002) and Towards a new direction(2011), Towards where? he published Razznanja songs in 2011
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