Dr. Katerina Kolozova is the director of the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities-Skopje, Macedonia and a professor of gender studies at the University American College-Skopje. She is also visiting professor at Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade: Postgraduate Program in Political Studies. In the past decade she has been one of the coordinators of several European research projects and academic networks.
Articles
Speculative Realism & the Invention of Post Kantianism
It is the poststructuralist verbiage that reduces the Kantian subject to the supposed fallacy of an (absolute) sovereignty or autonomy. Kant does not postulate the Subject in such a manner. When the so-called (speculative) realists attack poststructuralism as post-Kantianism, they adopt the poststructuralist framing of Kant: “it’s all in our heads,” reality is but the… Read More »
Why Critical Theory Isn’t Marxism & Why Western Vs. Eastern Marxism is an Illusory Dichotomy?
I have almost finished Gabriel Rockhill’s “Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?” (Monthly Review Press, 2025) amidst the uproar among the so-called progressive left academia and publishing. Rockhill has said the quiet truth out loud: the so-called critical theory has in fact nothing to do with Marxism. Its path has been paved by former… Read More »
Woke Is Dead? Not So Fast!
I am not sure exactly what “woke” is supposed to mean, but from what I have observed in not-so-academic debates that flirt with theory, it is an individualistic liberal appropriation of the so-called “constructivist” argument. In other words, the value system of “woke” derives from critical theory and the “constructivist,” or rather poststructuralist, social argument.… Read More »