Todor Hristov
Biographic Data
| ID | 842861 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Todor Hristov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Todor |
| FAMILY NAME | Hristov |
| SIGNATURE | HRISTOV T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9994-5650 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Place and replaceability: The geopoetics of biopolitics in Bulgarian migrant-worker novels
Conspiracy theories and passion: The pragmatics of a Bulgarian debate on vaccination
Conspiracy theories are not merely propositions about states of affairs, they are also speech acts and because of that their meaning consists not only in what conspiracy theorists say but also in what they do with words or, in other words, in the pragmatics of their stories. Building on a concept developed by Stanley Cavell, the article argues that from the point of view of pragmatics conspiracy theories are a form of passionate speech. In contra…
Planning and truth: The Bulgarian 1963 reform and the problem of profitability
The conventional account of socialist planning proposes that annual plans were sets of imperative requirements that kept the economic actors from planning for themselves and doomed them to inefficiency. This article claims that planning was an intricate mechanism of negotiations between economic, political and social actors, mediated and regulated, but never actually subdued by the communist party based on an analysis of the Bulgarian 1963 reform…
Choice without an alternative: The governmental rationality of the EU Green Deal
The article discusses the governmental rationality of the EU Green Deal. Even though it shares some of the distinguishing features of liberal and neoliberal security apparatuses described by Michel Foucault, the Green Deal involves a new mode of risk calculation, a different concept of crisis and a modulated mechanism of control: danger is evaluated by the distance from normative targets rather than as a deviation from the normal probability dist…
Nurie Muratova. Women Beyond the Archive: The Invisible Stories of Women in Bulgaria
Bulgarian archives can be difficult to navigate, particularly if one is looking for resources about women. Women Beyond the Archive: The Invisible Stories of Women in Bulgaria is an informative and helpful guide. Nurie Muratova lists the public institutions whose archival fonds include relevant documents (pp. 93–102), with an emphasis on the resources about Roma and Muslim women (p. 146), and explains that such fonds are more accessible and often…
Late Modernity and the Privatization of Spirituality
The review summarizes the main points of the first monograph on holistic spirituality in Bulgarian sociology. The study is based on twenty-three in-depth autobiographical interviews, mostly with yoga practitioners and followers of Petyr Dynov. One of the notable advantages of the book is that Teodora Karamelska convincingly and produc-tively recalibrates concepts developed Max Weber, Georg Simmel and Ernst Troelch so as to adapt them to the new r…
Fragile Responsibilization: Rights and Risks in the Bulgarian Response to Covid-19
This article discusses the Bulgarian response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Bulgarian case is characterized by an ineffective constitution of the individuals as subjects of responsibility for the health of the population, which resulted in a vaccine coverage considerably lower than the European average. The article argues that the fragile responsibilization is an effect of the response to the pandemic that, building on older post-socialist regula…
Plots: Literary Form and Conspiracy Culture
“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”(Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961) Thomas Pynchon’s earliest novels – V. (1963) The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) and Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) – were fictions which overtly addressed ideas of plot and history. Paranoid characters encounter multiple possible conspiracies, complots and possibilities of sinister networks in control of the world in which they live. At a time where conspiracy th…
Plots: Literary Form and Conspiracy Culture
Impossible Knowledge: Conspiracy Theories, Power, and Truth
Impossible Knowledge: Conspiracy Theories, Power, and Truth
Rights to Weapons: Rights as a Resource in Workplace Conflicts in Late Socialist Bulgaria
Social rights are essentially rights to the betterment of life. And because of this, they lack any internal principle of limitation. Socialist governments recognized social rights as the core of human rights and therefore as legal rights, the implementation of which was a matter of obligation rather than policy. However, since the governments commanded limited resources, they had to limit the implementation of social rights. The article describes…
The Gift of Literature
The traumatic question “what has Bulgarian literature given to the world” acquired particular intensity in periods of crisis such as the Balkan Wars, and after 1989 and the subsequent Bulgarian EU accession. It is generally accepted that the value that Bulgarian literature transmits to the world lies in the identity it represented. The goal of the paper is to show that Bulgarian literature was constituted as a gift responding to the gift of world…
Institutional and conceptual transformations of philosophy of history
The paper presents the findings of two studies on the current transformations of philosophy of history. The paper claims that those transformations outline a research field more appropriately defined as historical knowledge studies, and focused on the conditions of possibility, operation, structure, institutional praxis, critical potential and political relevance of our knowledge about history. The study provides an outline of the emergence of ne…
Making difference work: Post-socialist biopolitics through the lens of Rey Chow
This article attempts to read the concepts of ethnicity and self-referentiality developed by Rey Chow as mechanisms of biopolitical articulation, which are particularly effective when governmental or non-governmental biopolitical agents need to suspend the imperative to enhance life, or to justify the exclusion of vast populations from their concern with life. I will try to explain the operation of those mechanisms in the context of post-socialis…
Making difference work: Post-socialist biopolitics through the lens of Rey Chow
This article attempts to read the concepts of ethnicity and self-referentiality developed by Rey Chow as mechanisms of biopolitical articulation, which are particularly effective when governmental or non-governmental biopolitical agents need to suspend the imperative to enhance life, or to justify the exclusion of vast populations from their concern with life. I will try to explain the operation of those mechanisms in the context of post-socialis…
Institutional and conceptual transformations of philosophy of history
The paper presents the findings of two studies on the current transformations of philosophy of history. The paper claims that those transformations outline a research field more appropriately defined as historical knowledge studies, and focused on the conditions of possibility, operation, structure, institutional praxis, critical potential and political relevance of our knowledge about history. The study provides an outline of the emergence of ne…
The Gift of Literature
The traumatic question “what has Bulgarian literature given to the world” acquired particular intensity in periods of crisis such as the Balkan Wars, and after 1989 and the subsequent Bulgarian EU accession. It is generally accepted that the value that Bulgarian literature transmits to the world lies in the identity it represented. The goal of the paper is to show that Bulgarian literature was constituted as a gift responding to the gift of world…
Impossible Knowledge: Conspiracy Theories, Power, and Truth
Impossible Knowledge: Conspiracy Theories, Power, and Truth
Rights to Weapons: Rights as a Resource in Workplace Conflicts in Late Socialist Bulgaria
Social rights are essentially rights to the betterment of life. And because of this, they lack any internal principle of limitation. Socialist governments recognized social rights as the core of human rights and therefore as legal rights, the implementation of which was a matter of obligation rather than policy. However, since the governments commanded limited resources, they had to limit the implementation of social rights. The article describes…
Plots: Literary Form and Conspiracy Culture
“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”(Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961) Thomas Pynchon’s earliest novels – V. (1963) The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) and Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) – were fictions which overtly addressed ideas of plot and history. Paranoid characters encounter multiple possible conspiracies, complots and possibilities of sinister networks in control of the world in which they live. At a time where conspiracy th…
Plots: Literary Form and Conspiracy Culture
Fragile Responsibilization: Rights and Risks in the Bulgarian Response to Covid-19
This article discusses the Bulgarian response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Bulgarian case is characterized by an ineffective constitution of the individuals as subjects of responsibility for the health of the population, which resulted in a vaccine coverage considerably lower than the European average. The article argues that the fragile responsibilization is an effect of the response to the pandemic that, building on older post-socialist regula…
Conspiracy theories and passion: The pragmatics of a Bulgarian debate on vaccination
Conspiracy theories are not merely propositions about states of affairs, they are also speech acts and because of that their meaning consists not only in what conspiracy theorists say but also in what they do with words or, in other words, in the pragmatics of their stories. Building on a concept developed by Stanley Cavell, the article argues that from the point of view of pragmatics conspiracy theories are a form of passionate speech. In contra…
Planning and truth: The Bulgarian 1963 reform and the problem of profitability
The conventional account of socialist planning proposes that annual plans were sets of imperative requirements that kept the economic actors from planning for themselves and doomed them to inefficiency. This article claims that planning was an intricate mechanism of negotiations between economic, political and social actors, mediated and regulated, but never actually subdued by the communist party based on an analysis of the Bulgarian 1963 reform…
Choice without an alternative: The governmental rationality of the EU Green Deal
The article discusses the governmental rationality of the EU Green Deal. Even though it shares some of the distinguishing features of liberal and neoliberal security apparatuses described by Michel Foucault, the Green Deal involves a new mode of risk calculation, a different concept of crisis and a modulated mechanism of control: danger is evaluated by the distance from normative targets rather than as a deviation from the normal probability dist…
Nurie Muratova. Women Beyond the Archive: The Invisible Stories of Women in Bulgaria
Bulgarian archives can be difficult to navigate, particularly if one is looking for resources about women. Women Beyond the Archive: The Invisible Stories of Women in Bulgaria is an informative and helpful guide. Nurie Muratova lists the public institutions whose archival fonds include relevant documents (pp. 93–102), with an emphasis on the resources about Roma and Muslim women (p. 146), and explains that such fonds are more accessible and often…
Late Modernity and the Privatization of Spirituality
The review summarizes the main points of the first monograph on holistic spirituality in Bulgarian sociology. The study is based on twenty-three in-depth autobiographical interviews, mostly with yoga practitioners and followers of Petyr Dynov. One of the notable advantages of the book is that Teodora Karamelska convincingly and produc-tively recalibrates concepts developed Max Weber, Georg Simmel and Ernst Troelch so as to adapt them to the new r…
Place and replaceability: The geopoetics of biopolitics in Bulgarian migrant-worker novels
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Conspiracy theories (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · History & Theory (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Théories du complot (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)