.pdfThe thematic issue of the Journal for Critique of Science
A STORY OF AN ERASURE
he thematic issue of the Journal for Critique of Science, Imagination and New Anthropology (Časopis za kritiko znanosti, domišljijo in novo antropologijo – ČKZ) entitled A Story of An Erasure consists of interviews (with Aleksander Todorović, Aleksander Doplihar, Robert Pignoni and Boris A. Novak), scientific articles (Marta Gregorčič, Vlasta Jalušič, Neža Kogovšek, Andrej Kurnik, Uršula Lipovec Čebron, Borut Mekina, Igor Mekina, Marta Stojić, Imma Tuccillo Castaldo, Svetlana Vasović, Boris Vezjak and Jelka Zorn), an extensive chronology of the Erased citizens of Slovenia and their uprising, stories, reviews of some events of cultural activism, two documentary films (dvd) and some photographs.
The story of the Erased is twofold. It is a story about civil death: bare life deprived of all social, juridical and political standards of the 20th century; failure to realise that people cannot be rendered stateless and have the right to be politically and socially active; that they are entitled to bodily integrity and dignity, and that they have the right to health and social insurance, education, pensions, family and social life. However, the story of the Erased is also a story of great courage, of the art of survival and of a creative uprising which the Erased have shown in their everyday life and throughout the many years of their struggle. The cry of the invisible has pierced the darkness of a hopeless situation and apathy, its echo resounding for the hope of all fighting for a world free from erasure, illegality, invisibility and submission. The invisible became visible long ago. It is time now to make visible all those who tried to make the Erased invisible!
Translated from Slovenian by Tanja Passoni.
Cover of the thematic issue of the Journal for Critique of Science, 2008.
