@article{Pupovac_2016, place={Ljubljana, Slovenija}, title={Present Perfect, or the Time of Post-Socialism}, volume={30}, url={https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/filozofski-vestnik/article/view/4461}, abstractNote={What is the specific conception of historical time that is established with the so-called post-socialist condition? I argue that the time of post-socialism, and especially its own construction of actuality, can be conceptualised as the present perfect. Present perfect stands for two things: 1) a conception of the present which is entirely determined by the past, 2) a conception of historical change which is conceived as the infinite perfection of the existent. These two subjective orientations of historical time in post-socialism correspond to the prevalence of, respectively, nationalist ideologies and neo-liberal and liberal-democratic ideals. The present perfect in both its variations is an obscurantist time: a time which obscures our subjective disposition to master history collectively, a time which obscures the egalitarian political construction of the present itself as an infinite opening and interruption in history.}, number={3}, journal={Filozofski vestnik}, author={Pupovac, Ozren}, year={2016}, month={Mar.} }