nemanja mitrovíc

Nemanja Mitrovíc is the assistant dean in the Division of Philosophy, Art and Critical Thought, and a Faculty Fellow, at The European Gradate School. He is also an associate professor at the Faculty for Media and Communications in Belgrade. His theoretical interests revolve around the relationship between memory and forgetting from the perspective of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Levinas, and Blanchot. He is arguing that memory and forgetfulness are not opposites but that a certain forgetfulness is actually constitutive of our ability to remember. Therefore, following Michael Bernard-Donals, Mitrović is examining the notion of “forgetful memory”. This examination has led him to problems posed in in the fictional autobiography entitled Les Bienveillantes which was written by Jonathan Littell. In his research of this work, Mitrović is focusing not only on “forgetful memory” but on the role that this notion has in our ability to understand what is fiction (or what we call fictional) and how this understanding of “fictionality” can be related to the understanding of ethics in Blanchotian sense.

One important aspect of Mitrović’s work are his collaborations with other people. Together with Sanja Kunjadić (a musicologist from Belgrade), he has created the radio show “The Artist in Resonance” which, through series of interviews with most important artists, explores contemporary electronic music, its philosophy, significance and the place in the world today. Also, together with Maja Bajić, Mitrović translated Maurice Blanchot’s book of fragments Le pas au-delà into Serbian.