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Srećko Horvat
Srećko Horvat (born 1983 in Osijek, Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia) 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”. Contents ​​1 Life

​​2 Political activity

​​3 The Subversive Festival

​​4 Books

​​4.1 Books

​​4.2 Articles

​​5 References

Life

Horvat lived for the first 8 years of his life in exile in Germany, before returning back to Croatia in 1991. Currently he lives in Zagreb, but travels frequently and publishes extensively about the Occupy Wall Street Movement and the World Social Forum in Senegal or Tunisia (link:http://www.slobodnaevropa.org/content/dnevnik-srecka-horvata-neizvjestan-put-prema-tvrdjavi-europi/24651419.html ), from participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre and the Zebaleen in Cairo (link: http://www.vecernji.hr/svijet/grad-smeca-u-egiptu-u-reciklazi-kopti-su-prvaci-svijeta-236992), to Cyprus, China, Lebanon, Israel, etc. Political Activity

Horvat is one of the central figures of the new left in Croatia and the Balkans. He currently hosts a TV-show “Zdravo društvo” (“Sane Society”), 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 the Occupy Wall Street, Chinese Capitalism but also poststructuralism or 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 program team he left the Subversive Festival. Books (in English)

• [http://istrosbooks.com/products/books/what-does-europe-wantg-union-and-its-discontents-35/ What does Europe want? The Union and its Discontents] together with Slavoj Žižek, Istros Books, London, 2013, translated into French, Spanish, Turkish, Romanian, Croatian, etc.

(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

• mit Slavoj Žižek: Was will Europa? – Rettet uns vor den Rettern, Laika-Verlag, Hamburg 2013

Articles

• “Welcome to the Desert of Transition”, together with Igor Štiks (Monthly Review )

• "The easiest way to the Gulag is to joke about the Gulag" (Open Democracy)

• "Why the EU needs Croatia (even more than Croatia needs the EU)" (Open Democracy)

• "Europe: are there Nazis living on the moon?" (Open Democracy)

• "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”

• "Croatia's vote forbidding gay marriage: a sign of the rotten heart of Europe" (The Guardian)

• "The land of blood and money" (Open Democracy)