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Theory and terror his essay will address the private/public division in the light of a phenomenon that emerged as a major feature of the last decade of the communist regime in Bulgaria and that came to be designated as âthe seminar.â The seminar? In Bulgaria? Over ten years ago? Who would care about this? Yet over and beyond the nostalgia that drives the survivors into incessant squabbling over the fossils of the seminar,1 there is the major mystery that the seminarâfrom its restricted, elitist inception in the late â70s to its spilling over from the bursting university auditoriums into street action and clashes with the police in the spring and summer of 1989âwas produced as the dominant trajectory of the crumbling of totalitarian power. Thus, if we cannot say that the seminar brought down the totalitarian regimeâalthough what did? there is no definitive answer yetâwe can say for certain that the regime in Bulgaria brought along the seminar as the one major symptom of its demise. The seminar makes us face the enigma of an indomitable political, economic, and military machine disintegrated by discourse: by âglasnost,â orâto put Gorbachevâs d â i â fâ fâ e â r
differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies – Duke University Press
Published: Jan 1, 2002
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