Katerina "Katarina" Kolozova (; ; born on October 20, 1969) is a Macedonian academic, author and philosopher.
She is the co-director and faculty at the School of Materialist Research, an international interuniversity platform founded by Arizona State University - Center for Philosophical Technologies, TU Wien, Eindhoven Academy of Design and Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities-Skopje. She is also the director and professor of gender studies and philosophy at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, Skopje and an affiliated professor at ATTP of the Technical University Vienna. She has been associated with speculative realismO'Rourke, Michael (2016) "Girls Welcome!!! Speculative Realism, Object Oriented Ontology, and Queer Theory", in After the Speculative Turn: Realism, Philosophy and Feminism. Brooklyn: Punctum Books. pp.190-91 and has written about the non-philosophy of François Laruelle and the works of Karl Marx.Elmore, Rick et al. (16 December 2016) Online symposium on Toward a Radical Metaphysics of Socialism Accessed: 24 October 2017 She has been a member of the Organisation Non-Philosophique Internationale (International Organization of Non-Philosophy), with headquarters in Paris, France, since it was founded. She is a board member of The New Centre for Research & Practice of Grand Rapids, Michigan.thenewcentre.org
Biography Kolozova defended her PhD The Hellenes and Death in April 1998. The Buletin of Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, June 1999, available only in physical copy at the Faculty of Philosophy and the National Library of N. Macedonia) Her doctoral research entailed co-supervised work abroad with Jean-Pierre Vernant in Paris (EHESS: Centre Louis Gernet) for which she earned a scholarship from the French Ministry of foreign affairs, ISH Ljubljana co-supervised by Svetlana Slapasak. The international dimension of her PhD research entailed a year-long fellowship at the Gender Studies Department at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest (now in Vienna), in the form of "Doctoral Support Program" for which she earned a full scholarship and a stipend from CEU. In 2009, Kolozova was a visiting scholar (post-doc with a Fulbright scholarship) at UC Berkeley working under the peer supervision of Judith Butler.
Her teaching career started at her alma mater Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje as a graduate-level assistant professor in gender and communications studies–first appointment in the academic year of 1999–2000.
Since 2021, Kolozova has been appointed Visiting Faculty at the Center for Philosophical Technologies at Arizona State University. She was a visiting scholar at the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California-Berkeley. Kolozova was a visiting professor at the University of Sarajevo and the University of Sofia.CV –Katerina Kolozova. She is a visiting professor at the Political Studies Department of the Faculty of Media and Communications Singidunum University in Belgrade.
In February 2022 (updated in February 2023), Kolozova was ranked #14 of the 25 most influential women in philosophy according to Academic Influence in the past 10 years.
Stance on the Macedonian–Bulgarian dispute Kolozova is one of the public figures who strive to improve the relations between Bulgaria and North Macedonia.Katerina Kolozova, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities – Skopje: “Why is the definition of the dispute as a cultural conflict important?” 11 March 2022, Ideas for overcoming the Macedonian-Bulgarian Impasse. Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities – Skopje. She claims, the close ties between Bulgarians and Macedonians were interrupted after the Second World War in Communist Yugoslavia. According to Kolozova, disputed historical figures from the early 20th century, such as Gotse Delchev, had a Bulgarian national identity, but their contribution to the creation of an independent Macedonian state is indisputable. For more see: Колозова како Пендаровски и Малески: Не е спорно дека Делчев се декларирал како Бугарин. Express.mk, 03.11.2020. She maintains too the descendants of the Yugoslav partisans in her country are the main factor that ignites the anti-Bulgarian sentiments there. Per Kolozova, the historical myth about the Bulgarian fascist occupiers during the Second World War in Macedonia is groundless, because a large part of the "occupiers" were practically local collaborators of the Bulgarian authorities. For more see: Колозова: Практично сите „окупатори“ биле наши луѓе, не може Бугарите да депортираат толку Евреи без локална помош. Македонски весник, 25/07/2022. She is a member of the Friendship Club between the two countries.Македонският език отдавна не е "диалект на българския". Mediapool.bg, 23.07.2022.. Kolozova maintains North Macedonia lacks political will to improve the relationships between the two states,Проф. Колозова от Скопие: Ние сме луди и българофоби! БГНЕС, 16.03.2021. but the Bulgarian side attaches too much importance to issue of the common history as a condition for improving the relations.Проф. Катерина Колозова: Потомците на партизаните в Македония претендират, че са нация, създадена от "чиста тъкан". Антифашизмът e лицето на техния фашизъм. Faktor.bg, 25 March, 2021.On the Macedonian-Bulgarian dispute and historical revisionism. It is time for Macedonians and Bulgarians to move towards a political understanding of national identity. Al Jazeera, 7 Dec 2020. Her understandings on that issue, are not well received in North Macedonia.Колозова бара Македонците да се извинат за погромот на македонските Евреи под бугарска окупација. Zase.mkр 26.07.2022.Говор на омраза и непримерни напади кон професорката Колозова за објавени лични ставови. ИМ@, Јул 28, 2022.
Stance on third wave feminism Her monograph Cut of the Real: Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy published with Columbia University Press, 2014 (2nd edition 2018) is a provocation to the poststructuralist paradigm in feminist philosophy, seeking to vindicate the relevance of the notions of the "One" (versus subjectivity understood as flux of multiplicity of subject and identity positions), the Real (versus discursive construct treated as fiction), arguing for repositioning of third wave feminism, or at least aspects of it, in a new form of realism, often associated with speculative realism. The book has had some notable traction, which amounted to the invitation to Kolozova to author the chapter on Poststructuralism in the first in over 20 years Oxford Handbook of Feminist Philosophy (published in 2021).
Selected works Books The Death and the Greeks. On the Philosophical and Traditional Concepts of Death in Ancient Greece, Skopje: Kultura, 2000. The Real and 'I': On the Limit and the Self, Skopje: EuroBalkan Press ("Identities Series of Books"), 2006. (in English)Cooper, Jane (5 November 2009) "Book review: Katerina Kolozova, The Real and 'I': On the Limit and the Self" Feminist Theory v.10 n.3 pp.379-80. The Cut of the Real: Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy, New York: Columbia University Press, 2014, Narasimhananda, Swami (July 2016) "Book Review: Katerina Kolozova, The Cut of the Real" Prabuddha Bharata v.121 n.7, pp.576. Toward a Radical Metaphysics of Socialism: Marx and Laruelle, Brooklyn, New York: Punctum Books, 2016, The Lived Revolution: Solidarity with the Body in Pain as the New Political Universal. Skopje: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities-Skopje, 2016 (in English) Translation from Ancient Greek of Euripides' Medea, with an Introductory Study and Commentaries. Skopje: Ad Verbum, 2016. (in Macedonian) Capitalism’s Holocaust of Animals: A Non-Marxist Critique of Capital, Philosophy and Patriarchy. London UK: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, Co-authored with Paul Cockshott and Greg Michaelson, "Defending Materialism: The Uneasy History of the Atom in Science and Philosophy," signed with Bloomsbury Academic (London UK)
As editor (editor) Classic Readings in Gender Theory, Skopje: EuroBalkan Press, 2003."Membres: Katrina Kolozova" ONPhI: Organisation Non-Philosophique Internationale. (co-editor with Svetlana Slapšak and Jelisaveta Blagojevic) Gender and Identity: Theories from/on Southeastern Europe Belgrade/Utrecht: Advanced Thematic Network for Women’s Studies in Europe-ATHENA, 2006. (in English) (co-editor and contributor) Conversations with Judith Butler: Crisis of the Unitary Subject Skopje: "Euro-Balkan" Press, 2007. (in Macedonian and in English) (co-editor with Eileen Joy) After the Speculative Turn: Realism, Philosophy and Feminism, Brooklyn, New York: Punctum Books, 2016. . (co-editor with Niccolò Milanese) “Illiberal Democracies” in Europe: An Authoritarian Response to the Crisis of Illiberalism Washington D.C: Illiberalism Studies Program, The Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, The George Washington University, 2023 (in English)
See also Gjorgji Kolozov, her father, an actor
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