Mladen Dolar

Advising researcher Theory / After Hegel

mladendolar@yahoo.com


Mladen Dolar is the initiator and advising researcher on the project After Hegel.


1951

Maribor, SI


Studies

1991

PhD in Philosophy.

1978

Philosophy and French. University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SI.


Academic positions

since 2002

Senior research fellow. Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SI.

since 1982

(Respectively) Assistant professor, associate professor and professor. Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SI.


Professional activities

Over 120 papers in journals, collective volumes, catalogues, ... The majority of papers is in Slovene, many are in English, German, French, Croatian, Polish, Bulgarian, Japanese... A complete list is available on: http://www.cobiss.si.

since 1989

Numerous lectures at universities in the USA (Duke, New School for Social Research, Duquesne, University of Chicago, State College, Penn, Buffalo, Columbia, Irvine, Washington University, St. Louis, Harvard), England (Essex, Sussex, Kent, Newcastle), Germany (Essen, Witten, Paderborn, Leipzig), Austria (Linz, Kreisky Forum, Vienna), Switzerland (Zürich), Turkey (Sabanci, Istanbul), Netherlands (Jan van Eyck Academie), Norway (Academy of Arts, Oslo)…

since 1982

Editor of the Slovene journal Problemi and the book series Analecta.


Grants

2000 – 2001

Grant. Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen, DE.

1989 – 1990

Grant. University of Westminster, London, GB.

1979 – 1980

Grant. Université de Paris VIII-Vincennes Saint-Denis, Paris, FR.


Editorials

2010

Mladen Dolar (Ed.). Katarina Zdjelar: parapoetics. Rotterdam, NL: Tent.

1994

Mladen Dolar (Ed.). Kant und das Unbewußte. Vienna, AT: Turia & Kant.

Editor of a number of collections in Slovene.


Moderated events

2010

Remarks and reflections. Closing discussion. In: Cutting the Not. Workshop on negativity and reflexivity. (10 – 12 September). Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.

Boris Buden and Owen Hatherly in conversation with Zelimir Zilnik. In: Surfing the black. (28 – 29 June 2010). Conversation followed by a public discussion. Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.


Organised events

2010

Hegel seminar. (2 February; 5 March; 9 April; 28 May; 9 September; 5 October). Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.


Books

2006

Prozopopeja [Prosopopoia]. Ljubljana, SI: Analecta.

A voice and nothing more. Cambridge, US: MIT Press. Translations into German (His master’s voice: eine Theorie der Stimme. Frankfurt am Main, DE: Suhrkamp, 2007); Spanish (Una voz y nada más. Buenos Aires, AR: Manantial, 2007); Croatian (Glas i ništa više. Zagreb, HR: Disput, 2009). Translations into French, Polish, Albanian and Bulgarian are due to appear in 2010.

2005

Istorii ljubvi. With Miran Božovič & Alenka Zupančič. St. Petersburg, RU: Aletejja.

2003

O glasu [On voice]. Ljubljana, SI: Analecta.

2002

O skoposti [On avarice]. Ljubljana, SI: Analecta.

Opera’s second death. With Slavoj Žižek. Translations into Polish (Druga smierc opery. Warsaw, PL: Sic!, 2008), Korean and other languages. London, GB: Routledge.

2001

Wenn die Musik der Liebe Nahrung ist... Mozart und die Philosophie in der Oper. Vienna, AT: Turia & Kant.

1992

Samozavedanje. Heglova fenomenologija duha II [Selfconsciousness.Hegel’s phenomenology of spirit II]. Ljubljana, SI.

1991

Heglova fenomenologija duha I [Hegel’s phenomenology of spirit I]. Ljubljana, SI: Analecta.

1985

Hegel in objekt [Hegel and the object]. With Slavoj Žižek. Ljubljana, SI: Analecta.

1982

Struktura fašističnega gospostva [The structure of the fascist domination]. Ljubljana, SI: DDU Univerzum.


Book contributions

2010

Which voice? In: Mladen Dolar et al. (Eds.) Katarina Zdjelar: parapoetics, pp. 6-13. Rotterdam, NL: Tent.

Automatismen der Wiederholung: Aristoteles, Kierkegaard und Lacan. In: Hannelore Bublitz, Roman Marek, Christina Louise Steinmann & Hans Winkler (Eds). Automatismen, pp. 129-152. Munich, DE: Wilhelm Fink Verlag.

2009

The seen, the heard, the in-between. In: Tone Hansen (Ed.). To be heard is to be seen, pp. 29-37. Høvikodden, NO: Henie Onstad Kunstsenter.

2008

Die Kunst des Ungesagten. In: Michael Neumann & Ulrich van Royen (Eds). Unter uns: Strategien der Diskretion. Tumult, 33, pp. 55-64. Berlin, DE: Alpheus Verlag.

Kafka’s Europe. In: Markus Miessen (Ed.). East coast Europe, pp. 17-24. Berlin, DE: Sternberg Press.

2006

Hegel as the other side of psychoanalysis. In: Justin Clemens & Russell Grigg (Eds). Jacques Lacan and the other side of psychoanalysis: reflections on seminar XVIII, pp. 129-154. Durham, US: Duke University Press.

2005

Comedy and its double. Die Kömodie und ihr Double. In: Robert Pfaller (Ed.). Schluß mit der Kömodie! Stop that comedy!, pp. 25-59; 181-209. Vienna, AT: Sonderzahl.

2002

Kafka’s immanence, Kafka’s transcendence. In: Regina Schwartz (Ed.). Transcendence. Philosophy, literature, and theology approach the beyond, pp. 175-194. London, GB: Routledge; New York, US: Routledge.

2001

The enjoying machine. In: Sue Feldman, Theresa Giron & Mikko Tuhkanen (Eds). Polemos. Umbr(a), pp. 123-139. Buffalo, US: The Center for the study of psychoanalysis and culture.

1998

Cogito as the subject of the unconscious. In: Slavoj Žižek (Ed.). Cogito and the unconscious, pp. 11-40. Durham, US: Duke University Press.

The subject supposed to enjoy. In: Alain Grosrichard (Ed.). The sultan’s court. European fantasies of the East, pp. ix-xvii. London, GB: Verso; New York, US: Verso.

1996

At first sight. In: Renata Salecl & Slavoj Žižek (Eds). Gaze and voice as love objects, pp. 129-153. Durham, US: Duke University Press.

The object voice. In: Renata Salecl & Slavoj Žižek (Eds). Gaze and voice as love objects, pp. 7-31. Durham, US: Duke University Press.

1994

The phrenology of spirit. In: Joan Copjec (Ed.). Supposing the subject, pp. 64-83. London, GB: Verso.

1992

A father who is not quite dead. In: Slavoj Žižek (Ed.). Everything you always wanted to know about Lacan but were afraid to ask Hitchcock, pp. 143-150. London, GB: Verso.

Hitchcock’s objects. In: Slavoj Žižek (Ed.). Everything you always wanted to know about Lacan but were afraid to ask Hitchcock, pp. 31-46. London, GB: Verso.

The spectator who knew too much. In: Slavoj Žižek (Ed.). Everything you always wanted to know about Lacan but were afraid to ask Hitchcock, pp. 129-136. London, GB: Verso.


Articles

2008

Touching ground. In: Jörg Huber (Ed.). 31. Das Magazin des Instituts für Theorie (issue: Taktilität: Sinneserfahrung als Grenzerfahrung), 12/13, pp. 59-70.

2006

Vox. In: Umbr(a), 12, pp. 119-141.

2005

Nothing has changed. In: Filozofski vestnik, 26(2), pp. 147-160.

2004

In parmenidem parvi commentarii. In: Helios, 31(1-2), pp. 63-98.

2003

His master’s voice. In: Lacanian ink, 22, pp. 90-121.

1998

Where does power come from? In: New formations, 35, pp. 79-92.

1994

La femme-machine. In: New formations, 23, pp. 43-54.

1993

Beyond interpellation. In: Qui parle, 6(2), pp. 75-96.

1991

The legacy of the enlightenment. Foucault and Lacan. In: New formations, 14, pp. 43-56.

I shall be with you on your wedding night. Lacan and the uncanny. In: October, 58, pp. 5-24.


Lectures

2010

(Untitled). With Mladen Dolar (respondent) & Colette Soler. In: Theory and practice in psychoanalysis. (1 – 2 October). Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.

(Untitled). In: Summer session 2010. (24 – 31 July). Majvik, FI: Nordic Summer University.

The demon of negativity. In: Opening week 2010. (11 – 15 January). Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.

2009

(Untitled). (5 July). In: Voice day. Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.

2007

Freedom of/as the object. In: The phantom of liberty. Psychoanalysis as a philosophy of freedom? (12 May). Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.


Seminars/Workshops

2010

An impossible encounter: Deleuze and Lacan. (30 June – 1 July). Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.

Derrida on animality: transcendental and genetic thought, philosophy and psycho-analysis. (26 May). In: CLiC. With Michael Lewis. Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.

Back to basics. Freud’s analysis of the dream of Irma’s injection. (5 February). Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.