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2004 'Unstable conditions'

'359° - Network for Local and Subaltern Hermeneutics'
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-Program: 359° - Network for local and subaltern hermeneutics is a NGO of group of intellectuals that are starting from the position of their own experiences about the definition of their position as subjects of/in a culture burdened by the imperatives of the West-East discourses. The starting premise of this group is redirect the discourse West-East towards the local scene, i.e. to post the defining and interpretation of the experience and knowledge, accumulated in this location in a functional pragmatics for the purposes of this location. That implicitly understands sub ordering of the mentioned discourse in behalf of the local, in the frames of the group understood as local in the wider space of the Balkans. By that, the basic aim is promotion of the local and own resources and to post them not in function of the western interpretative methodologies, but rather to implement and make them functional for the needs not of the western thinkers, but of the local ones, of those that aredirectly living the post-colonial condition in which they are surrounded.

Hence: Why 359°? - 359° comprise projects that encourage local hermeneutical positions. It is a network of dialectical confrontations of ahermeneutical circle and 'bestimmten Ausschnitt der Welt'. 359° researches the rest of 1° needed to close the circle by the former 359° and to come to the missing 1°.

Why local? 359° - Network for local and subaltern hermeneutics is based on a political decision to reject, refuse and refute, the Menon-like position of the Macedonian and Balkanian scholar, artist and historian, to whom the Western theoretical establishment opens the road to the world of ideas. 359° - Network forlocal and subaltern hermeneutics insists on the critical function of interpretation that helps understanding of the local context and practice.

Why subaltern? 359° - Network for local and subaltern hermeneutics finds the postcommunist Macedonian theorists, writers, artists etc. to be very near to the postcolonial thought. 359° - Network for local and subaltern hermeneutics refers to Spivak's insights but does not ask the western theoretical establishment to take a moratorium on producing global decisions.

Why hermeneutics? 359° - Network for local and subaltern hermeneutics produces local decisions.

- Board Members: Branislav Sarkanjac, Ph.D., philosopher, [senior lecturer at Institute for Philosophy, University 'SS. Cyril and Methodius' Skopje]; Bojan Ivanov, M.A. art historian and independent art critic; Neboj_a Vili_,Ph.D., art historian [senior lecturer at Faculty of Drama Arts, University 'SS. Cyril and Methodius' Skopje].



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