Martin Pogačar

Martin Pogačar is a cultural studies scholar with a PhD in memory and digital media and an MA in Central and South-Eastern European Studies. His research interests include media memory studies, philosophy of technology, as well as Yugoslav popular culture and industrial heritage, as well as the history of technology in socialist Yugoslavia. His recent work includes: 'E/Affect Agropop: how pop and joke made people resonate in the 1980s', in Ana Hofman and Tanja Petrović (eds.), Affect’s Social Lives: Post-Yugoslav Reflections, Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SA ZU, 2023, and the co-edited volume Social Impact in Arts and Culture: The Diverse Lives of a Concept (with Iva Kosmos), Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SA ZU, 2022 in which he wrote the essay 'A microphone in a chandelier: how a secret recording sparks mnemonic imagination and affect'.