POLITICAL ITEMS ON THE GROUND OF THE TRIVIAL. Singing politics of Croatian transition

Abstract

The trivialization of the political discourse makes the contemporary Croatia an awkward sample for revisiting the state of nationalism and antagonism as the symptom of its post-Yugoslav condition. In their frozen and perplexed shape, many of the items "formerly known" as crucial for the nationaloriented politics, are now nonchalantly left to the pop-cultural elaboration. With the two intriguing examples of Croatian pop-ideology we are showing the paradoxes of the cultural critique coping with the mimicrycal nature of its traditional object. The question of "over" or "under-interpretation" of its quasipolitical content, thus spreads into the entirety of social understanding of transitional cultures, which are swapping the ideological for the procedural reason of their political normality.