Etnoantropološki Problemi (Feb 2016)

"Rebellion of the signifier": Contemporary effects of the concept bricolage

  • Ines Prica

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 2
pp. 149 – 166

Abstract

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In this paper the concept of bricolage is applied to the paradoxical contexts of transitory societies using the translation of general theoretical concepts to those politically recognizable. On the one hand, notions of intersubjectivity, improvisation and self-organisation suggest social functioning based on the principles of free market, management and self-government; while on the other, common understanding of transition as the "application of democracy according to a model", introduces radically different background of bricolage as non-inventiveness, imitation, fragmentary connection and "irrational mentality".