WIAS Visiting Researcher Seminar: “Auto-Immunity and Violence. ‘Victorious Mind’ and the Necessity of ‘Victory over Victory’. A Discussion with Petar Bojanić” (6/12)
Abstract
Petar Bojanić develops the concept of the ‘victorious mind’ as an essential product of European modernity. According to Bojanić, ‘victory’ is not limited to the question of sovereignty or social struggle: it should be considered a ‘meta-institutional protocol’. At the ‘pre-institutional’ stage, antagonism is viewed as a transcendental principle of relations between subjects and objects. At the institutional and meta-institutional stages, antagonism is characterised as inherent in all possible relations between social actors. The very modern idea of the social is based on various antagonisms that precede open and direct social or military conflicts. The victorious mind is considered the supra-institutional actor capable of transforming institutions and changing laws (in the sense of sovereignty), discriminating between ‘winners’ and ‘losers’, and controlling the project of absolute victory. Bojanić suggests that, in the current institutional crisis, we need to overcome the ‘victorious mind’, which is seen as destructive and discriminatory. Discussant: BLINOV, Evgeny
Program
16:15 – 16:20 Opening
16:20 – 16:50 NAGASAKA, Masumi
16:50 – 17:20 BABIKER, Abudjana H. E.
17:20 – 17:40 Break
17:40 – 18:10 BLINOV, Evgeny
18:10 – 18:40 BOJANIC, Petar
18:40 – 19:40 Discussion
19:40 – 19:45 Closing
Speakers
BOJANIC, Petar (Professor, University of Belgrade)
BLINOV, Evgeny (Professor, Tyumen State University)
BABIKER, Abudjana H. E. (PhD, Department of Architecture, Graduate School of Creative Science and Engineering, Waseda University Alumni)
NAGASAKA, Masumi (Professor, Waseda University)
Date&Time
June 12, 2026 (Fri.) 16:15 – 19:45
Venue
Multi-purpose lecture room, Basement, Building #26, Waseda Campus, Waseda University
Prospected Audience
Students, Graduate students, Faculty members, Research members, General Participants
Language
English
Organizer
Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS)
Coordinator: NAGASAKA, Masumi (Professor, Faculty of International Research and Education)
Registration
Pre-registration required: https://forms.gle/9nwGoTnA7xSvaqLe8
