Vesna Liponik is a research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy at ZRC SAZU and a PhD student at the ZRC SAZU Postgraduate School. In her master's thesis she analysed the (non)trope of anthropomorphisation. Her research interests range across the connections between politics, ontology and aesthetics, as well as literary theory and stylistics. She is particularly interested in the transformations of the concepts of 'animal' and 'human' in contemporary philosophy and aesthetics. She is writing her dissertation under the supervision of Dr. Marina Gržinić Mauhler.
Articles (selection)
The Tropological Animal: Beyond the Body and the Sovereign, Filozofski vestnik, 2023, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 239–263.
Animals As Conflicts, Filozofski vestnik, 2024, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 223–250.
Grušovnik, Tomaž, Liponik, Vesna. Animal Ethics and Aesthetics Revisited: Distant Proximity, JAHR: European Journal of Bioethics, 2023, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 87–103.
Monographs and chapters in monographs
We Have Always Been Grotesque. In: Marjetka Golež Kaučič (ed.), Saša Babič (ed.). Animals in Focus. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2025, pp. 32–52.
Vičar, Branka, Liponik, Vesna. The anthropocene poetics of Uroš Prah: trans-corporeal subjectivity and marginal places. In: Godlewicz-Adamiec, Joanna (ed.), Piszcatowski, Paweł (ed.). Re-thinking agency : non-anthropocentric approaches. Göttingen: V&R Unipress: Brill, Culture - environment - society, vol. 3., 2024. pp. 403–417.
Zoo photography tips. In: Đurđević, Goran (ur.), Levanat-Peričić, Miranda (ed.), Marjanić, Suzana (ed.). Ekokritika : između prirode i kulture. Zadar: Sveučilište u Zadru, 2024. Vol. 1, pp. 311–325.
Editorial work
2024– member of the editorial board of the scientific journal Filozofski vestnik.
2023 – guest editor of the special issue of Anthropos: Journal of Philosophy and Psychology, entitled Animal (Dis)entangled or towards ‘A New Form of Civilization’
- Conditions and Problems of Contemporary Philosophy IV (research programme • January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2025)
- Nahtigal Prize of the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana for the best final thesis – for the Master's thesis Anthropomorphisation: a critical analysis of a (non)trope (2022).