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The paper focuses on an aspect of the history of the collection of Ivan Skušek Jr., an early 20th century Slovenian collector that has not yet been looked at thoroughly, namely, its "apartment" period, the time when the collection was on display in three consecutive apartments Ivan Skušek Jr. and his Japanese wife lived in. Due to the failed plans to establish a museum, the collection ended up being on display in lived spaces for the entire period between their arrival to Ljubljana and Marija Skušek's passing, all together for 43 years—much longer than it was ever displayed in museum settings. The paper focuses on the way a lived space functioned as a setting for the display of the collection and how this combination created a place for communication, appropriation and knowledge acquisition—how the collection was lived in, lived with and lived through. The analysis thus reflects on the implications of the setting of the lived-in museum: how it impacted the collection and its parts, how it conditioned the lives of its owners and how this mode of presentation influenced the reception of the visitors. In the second part of the paper, the analysis is based on specific material—Skušek's archive that was recently analysed in the Slovenian Ethnographic museum collections, including a number of photographs of the interiors of the apartments.

Članek se ukvarja s problematiki muzealizacije človeških ostankov na primeru dveh tibetanskih predmetov iz zbirk Slovenskega etnografskega muzeja, iz lobanje narejena skleda (thod pa/kapāla), ki je bila del zbirke jezuitskega Indijskega muzeja, in bobenček (damaru) iz dveh lobanj, ki je v muzej prišel kot del Skuškove zbirke. V prvem delu bo članek analiziral zgodovino teh dveh eksponatov in pomen tovrstnih predmetov v tibetanski tradicionalni družbi. Drugi del članka bo posvečen problematiki zbiranja in razstavljanja predmetov iz človeških ostankov in medkulturnim vidikom teh vprašanj na primeru tibetanskih predmetov, izdelanih iz človeških ostankov.

This paper focuses on the methodological problem of contextualizing singular, 'orphaned' museum objects when provenance is unknown. In the late 1940s in Slovenia/Yugoslavia, the haste and non-transparent process of confiscation and subsequent reappropriation took many objects from collections that they were part of and placed them in new contexts, often leaving them unexhibited due to their problematic origin. The paper takes up one such singular object, a rare late nineteenth-century Jesuit missionary scroll from Shanghai that was left without information about its provenance or former owner. It first presents the steps taken in the identification of the object, its content, and background. Then the struggle of contextualizing the object is presented, along with the limitations of this process. Finally, a reflection on the status of 'orphaned' objects follows, with an attempt to assess the potential of such examples against the contextualizing approaches of museum representations.

The paper focuses on the phenomenon of quoting Confucius, the classical Chinese thinker of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Firstly, it approaches the core issue of quotes and historicity of the "master said" narrative which marked the tradition of quoting Confucius and understanding his heritage through the form of quotes. In the core part of the paper, a selection of ten quotes that most commonly circulate on the Internet are analysed and traced to their most probable sources, while the paper then concludes by approaching the problem of misquoting from a historical and philosophical point of view.

Članek se ukvarja z vzponom in zatonom novega modela kitajske kulturne diplomacije, ki se je utrdil pred dobrim desetletjem in je bil utemeljen v neotradicionalističnem ideološkem okviru predsedovanja Hu Jintaa in Wen Jiabaa. Hitro širjenje institucij kitajske kulturne diplomacije je na prvi pogled predstavljalo možnost novega in bolj poglobljenega medkulturnega dialoga, po drugi strani pa je sprožalo vse večjo negotovost glede političnih vsebin ter vzbujalo tesnobo glede vpliva in namenov njihovih politik. Raziskave v preteklih letih so ta pojav največkrat pojasnjevale s pomočjo paradigme »soft power« oziroma »mehke moči«. Članek sledi tej interpretaciji, a opozarja na dejstvo, ki je v tej paradigmi pogosto zanemarjeno, in sicer da se v zadnjih letih kitajska kulturna diplomacija hitro in radikalno spreminja, še posebej ob korenitih spremembah v aktualni politični sferi in politični ideologiji. Ob tem se članek za razliko od klasičnih interpretacij »mehke moči« ne osredotoča toliko na uspeh ali neuspeh kitajske kulturne diplomacije, ampak bolj na širši kontekst zunanjepolitičnih strategij sodobne Kitajske in njihovih novejših transformacij.

"In recent years, the popularity of the inimitable Slavoj Žižek has perhaps cast a shadow over the collective influence exerted by Slovenian intellectuals on modern day philosophy. Yet despite his image as an isolated genius, this timely book relocates Žižek as a thinker whose ideas are born of a specifically Slovenian context. Although only coming to international notice in the early 1990s, the Slovenian school needs to be understood as the culmination of a series of intellectual, artistic and political movements inextricably connected to the quest for the succession of Slovenia from Yugoslavia. These developments in thought must also be seen in the light of one of the giants of Continental philosophy: Jacques Lacan.Featuring brand new interviews with three of its forerunners - Slavoj Žižek, Mladen Dolar and Alenka Zupancic - this fascinating account details each philosopher's individual concerns, whilst shedding light on the complex genealogy and continuing development of the Slovenian Neo-Lacanian school. Rarely are we afforded such an opportunity to study the birth of a philosophy from a seminal moment in modern history"--