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Sr. Res. Assoc. Dr. Simon Hajdini
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Since 2021 Senior Research Associate (tenured), Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Spring 2021 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, The University of Chicago (USA)
2017-2020 Visiting Scholar, Department of Germanic Studies, The University of Chicago (USA)
2016-2017 Fulbright Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar, Department of Germanic Studies, The University of Chicago (USA)
2016-2021 Research Associate, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Since 2016 Assistant Professor (tenured), Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
2014-2016 Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Ljubljana (Philosophy), 2012
B.A. University of Ljubljana (Philosophy), 2004
B.A. University of Ljubljana (Comparative Literature), 2004
RESEARCH GRANTS
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PROJECT TITLE |
FUNDING SOURCE |
PERIOD |
ROLE |
STATUS |
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Names at the Tip of the Nose: Naming, Smell and Truth |
Slovenian Research Agency |
10/1/2022 – 9/30/2025 |
PI with research team |
Ongoing |
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Structure and Genealogy of Indifference: Logic—Epistemology—Ideology |
Slovenian Research Agency |
5/1/2017 – 4/30/2021 |
PI with research team |
Completed |
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Varieties of Negation: Philosophy—Psychoanalysis—Literature |
Slovenian Research Agency |
1/1/2018 – 12/31/2019 |
Co-PI (with Eric Santner) with research team |
Completed |
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Antinomies of Rest: A Philosophical Investigation into the Political-Theological and Ontological Status of Rest in Modernity |
Fulbright Program |
11/1/2016 – 5/31/2017 |
PI (Postdoc) |
Completed |
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The (Mis)uses of Laziness. The Figure of the Idler in Philosophy, Theology, and Political Economy |
Slovenian Research Agency |
7/1/2014 – 6/30/2016 |
PI (Postdoc) |
Completed |
MEMBERSHIPS
Since 2015 Editorial Board of Borec
Since 2014 Editorial Board of Problemi
Since 2014 Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Since 2013 Central European Research Institute of Søren Kierkegaard
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Slovenian (Native)
English (Fluent)
German (Fluent)
Full list of publications
BOOKS
What's That Smell? A Philosophy of the Olfactory (The MIT Press, March 5, 2024)
Kaj je ta duh? K filozofiji voha (Ljubljana: Analecta, 2016)
Na kratko o dolgčasu, lenobi in počitku (On Boredom, Laziness, and Rest; Ljubljana: Analecta, 2012)
ARTICLES
2022 ‘Živel antispecizem? Primer mrtvega psa (in mačk)’ [Long Live Anti-Speciesism?] in Problemi 60 (9-10): 199-239.
2022 ‘Okultizem voha: od Fliessa in Freuda do Rilkeja in Süskinda’ [The Occultism of Smell] in Problemi 60 (7-8): 141-170.
2021 ‘Ste slišali tistega o Benjaminu?’ [Did you hear the one about Benjamin?] in Problemi 59 (9-10): 135-158.
2021 ‘Imena na konici nosu ’, Amfiteater 9 (2): 56-69.
2021 ‘Marx and Spinoza? ’, Cultural Critique, No. 112 (DOI: 10.5749/culturalcritique.112.2021.0103).
2020 ‘Names at the Tip of the Nose’, Filozofski vestnik 41 (3): 159-176 (DOI: 10.3986/FV.41.3.04).
2020 ‘Govorica blag’ [The Language of Commodities] in Problemi 58 (1-2): 95-128.
2020 ‘Ne splača se: spremna študija’ [Not Worth it] in Robert Pfaller, Zakaj se splača živeti?, Ljubljana: Studia humanitatis.
2020 ‘Prepozno za prihodnost’ [No Future: On Contemporary Fatalism] in Frank Ruda, Ukinjanje svobode [Abolishing Freedom], Ljubljana: Maska.
2018 ‘Varieties of Negation: From Drizzle and Decaf to the Anti-Semitic Figure of the Jew’ in Lacanian Ink, 51: 108-125 (Spring 2018).
2017 ‘Comedy From a to Z: On the Subject-Matter of Ideological Interpellation’ in Problemi International, 1, 1: 129-158.
2016 ‘Dialectic at Its Impures’ in Slavoj Žižek and Dialectical Materialism, eds. Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda (New York: Palgrave), 85-99.
2015 ‘What’s the Difference? Kant and Lacan’, Filozofski vestnik, 36, 2, 87-108.
2015 ‘The Comedy of the Great Depression: On Chaplin’s Modern Times’, Crisis and Critique, 2, 1, 194-215.
2014 ‘“I, Ideology, Speak.” in (Mis)readings of Marx in Continental Philosophy, eds. Jernej Habjan and Jessica Whyte (Basingstoke & NY: Palgrave), 162-77.
2014 ‘Capitalism and Repetition: Marx and Lacan’, Crisis and Critique, 1, 3, 223-44.
2014 ‘Prozopopeja ideologije v luči Žižkove fetišistične sekvence’ [Prosopopoeia of Ideology], Problemi 52 (3-4): 143-68.
2013 ‘Znova nič novega: Adorno, Deleuze, Beckett’ [Nothing New Anew: Adorno, Deleuze, Beckett], Filozofski vestnik 34 (3): 179-95.
2012 ‘Zakaj nezavedno ne pozna časa? Pogled s (Kantove) strani’ [Why the Unconscious Doesn’t Know Time], Problemi 50 (5-6): 171-215.
2012 ‘Kafkov gladovalec’ [Kafka’s Hunger Artist], Problemi 50 (3-4): 105-42.
2006 ‘Dolgčas med “Kritiko” in “Antropologijo”’ [Boredom Between ‘Critique’ and ‘Anthropology’], Problemi 44 (5-6): 137-163.
2006 ‘K filozofiji dolgčasa’ [On the Philosophy of Boredom], Problemi 44 (1-2): 23-71.
2005 ‘Narcizem, magija in vsemoč misli’ [Narcissism, Magic, and the Omnipotence of Thought], Problemi 43 (1-2): 159-92.
EDITED BOOKS
Eric L. Santner, Politična ekonomija mesa [Political Economy of the Flesh], trans. and ed. Lidija Šumah and Simon Hajdini, Ljubljana: Analecta, 2021.
To Think a Sin: Book of Abstracts, Ljubljana: Ljubljana University Press, 2016.
Frank Ruda, Heglova drhal [Hegels Pöbel], trans. A. Leskovec, Ljubljana: Sophia, 2015.
Prvotna akumulacija med zgodovino in konceptom [Primitive Accumulation between History and Concept], Ljubljana: Institute for Worker’s Studies, 2013.
Michael Heinrich, Kritika politične ekonomije: uvod [Kritik der politischen Ökonomie: Eine Einführung], trans. M. Dobnikar, Ljubljana: Sophia, 2013.
Robert Burton, Anatomija melanholije [The Essential Anatomy of Melancholy], trans. L. Šumah, Ljubljana: Studia humanitatis, 2012.
Sigmund Freud, Metapsihološki spisi [Metapsychological Writings], trans. E. Bahovec et al., Ljubljana: Studia humanitatis, 2012.
Sigmund Freud, Spisi o družbi in religiji [Writings on Society and Religion], trans. S. Hajdini et al., Ljubljana: Analecta, 2007.
Sigmund Freud, Pet analiz [Five Psycho-Analyses], trans. E. Bahovec et al., Ljubljana: Analecta & Studia humanitatis, 2005.
Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud, Študije o histeriji [Studien über Hysterie], trans. S. Hajdini et al., Ljubljana: Delta, 2002.
EDITED JOURNAL ISSUES
Problemi International, 5, Ljubljana: Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, 2022.
Problemi International, 3, Ljubljana: Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, 2019.
Problemi International, 2, Ljubljana: Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, 2018.
Problemi International, 1, Ljubljana: Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, 2017.
