Ales Debeljak

Aleš Debeljak is a Slovenian cultural critic, poet, and essayist. During the Slovenian Spring (1988–1992), Debeljak actively participated in the democratization process in Slovenia. He is currently a professor of cultural studies at the Faculty for Social Studies of the University of Ljubljana.

In praise of hybridity

Ever since Ricardo, the defense of international trade has been about productive efficiency. But much more important is that civilisation is a process of cultural exchange, and hybridity is a source of the truly human in the form of new meanings

By Ales Debeljak

/ 18 Jan 2010