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Srećko Horvat (born 1983 in Osijek, Croatia) is a philosopher, author and political activist. The Hollywood director Oliver Stone described him as “the charismatic Croatian philosopher” and in Croatia he is regarded as a “dangerous discussant” and the “leading social and theoretical celebrity”. He is columnist for several newspapers and his articles regularly appear in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Il Manifesto, El Pais and The New York Times.

Life
Horvat lived for the first eight years of his life in exile in Germany, before returning back to Croatia in 1991. He doesn’t have a stable address, but travels frequently and publishes extensively about the Occupy Wall Street Movement; the World Social Forum in Senegal and Tunisia; Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre; the Zebaleen in Cairo; and Cyprus, China, Lebanon, Israel, etc.

Political Activity
Horvat is regarded as one of the central figures of the new left in Croatia and the Balkans. He has participated in different activist movements in Croatia and is a sought-after guest on television talk shows. In Germany he published the book After the End of History: From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Movement (Laika Verlag, 2013), where he is engaged in debates and interviews about Occupy Wall Street, Chinese capitalism, poststructuralism and postcolonialism with different thinkers like Francis Fukuyama, Stephane Hessel, Terry Eagleton, Gayatri Spivak, etc.

The Subversive Festival
He was one of the founders of the Subversive Festival in 2008 and the Director of its International Conference bringing to Zagreb figures like Alexis Tsipras, Aleida Guevara, Slavoj Žižek, Tariq Ali, Zygmunt Bauman, Chantal Mouffe, Saskia Sassen, etc. In 2013 together with the programme team he left the Subversive Festival.

Controversy
During 2013 Horvat was the host and author of an intellectual TV show on Croatian National Television called “Zdravo Društvo” (Sane Society) which tried to recreate the Balkan cultural space and hosted many acclaimed intellectuals like Renata Salecl, Rade Šerbedžija, Andrej Nikolaidis, Viktor Ivančić, etc. Officially it was called off by the management because of “austerity measures”. Nonetheless, commenting the case, the famous Bosnian writer Miljenko Jergović said “The TV show wouldn’t be removed if there wasn’t the Guardian piece If he had written it in 1942 he would end up in Jasenovac concentration camp. If he had written it in 1972 he would end up in Lepoglava prison. But in 2014 he only lost his TV show because he was writing the truth about Croatia”.

in English
•	''What does Europe want? The Union and its Discontents'' with Slavoj Žižek

in Croatian
• Što Europa želi? (with Slavoj Žižek), Algoritam, Zagreb, 2013 • ''Pažnja! Neprijatelj prisluškuje'' Naklada Ljevak, Zagreb, 2011 • Pravo na pobunu (with Igor Štiks), Fraktura, Zagreb, 2010 • Ljubav za početnike Naklada Ljevak, Zagreb, 2009 • Budućnost je ovdje Svijet distopijskog filma, HFS, Zagreb, 2008 • Totalitarizam danas Antibarbarus, Zagreb, 2008 • Diskurs terorizma AGM, Zagreb, 2008 • Znakovi postmodernog grada Jesenski i Turk, Zagreb, 2007 • Protiv političke korektnosti Od Kramera do Laibacha, i natrag, Biblioteka XX. Vek, Beograd, 2007.

in German
• Nach dem Ende der Geschichte Laika-Verlag, Hamburg, 2013 • ''Was will Europa? – Rettet uns vor den Rettern'' (with Slavoj Žižek) Laika-Verlag, Hamburg, 2013

Articles
•	Godot arrives in Sarajevo, New York Times, •	It’s the libidinal economy, stupid, Al Jazeera •	Why are the Balkans boiling again?, Al Jazeera •      Croatia has become the latest member of the EU periphery, The Guardian •      As Lampedusa shows, the EU’s attitude to migrants will be its own undoing, The Guardian