Bara Kolenc

Bara Kolenc is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. Her research brings together continental philosophy, critical theory, psychoanalysis, and the philosophy of art, with particular interests in German Idealism, modern French philosophy, ideology critique, and Yugoslav social philosophy. Her recent work focuses on repetition, subjectivity, and the transformations of social and subjective experience in the digital age. She is also a visiting editor at Problemi journal. Alongside her academic work, she has pursued a 25-year career as an artist, choreographer, director, and author.

As a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Stanford, Kolenc is working on the project “Re-Thinking Alienation Through the Lens of Yugoslav Social Philosophy: Zagorka Golubović and American Pragmatism.” Her research examines the concept of alienation in Yugoslav social philosophy during the Cold War, focusing particularly on the work of philosopher and social anthropologist Zagorka Golubović and her intellectual exchange with American pragmatist Richard J. Bernstein. Drawing on archival materials available in the United States, the project explores the dialogue between Yugoslav social philosophy and American pragmatism and reconsiders alienation as a philosophical problem concerning subjectivity, society, and freedom.

Her recent publications include Repetition and Subjectivity: Kierkegaard, Freud, Lacan (SUNY Press, 2026) and The Internet and the Subject: Reflections on Desire, Ideology, and Time in the Age of Instanternity (Analecta, 2025, in Slovenian).