BOGDAN BOGHIŢOI Abstract The goal of the paper is to determine what could provide grounds for the idea that mind could be partly realized by environmental items. In this respect, it analyses the now classical arguments put forward by Clark and Chalmers, and shows that both the thought experiments and the parity approach they devise … [Read more…]
ANDREEA GAE Abstract The problem of the Aristotelian First Unmoved Mover presents hermeneutical challenges to researchers. What mean matter, movement and potentiality in Aristotle’s metaphysics? How does actuality and final cause cooperate to secure motion, explaining the Being and the Unity? What is the causal connection between the Prime Mover and the particular objects and … [Read more…]
ALEŠ ERJAVEC Abstract In his article the author presents ways in which in the last two centuries mountain photography was employed by Slovenians in establishing their national identity or sentiment. He points out the similar, yet also different development of realism in painting, on the one hand, and, on the other, the historical development of … [Read more…]
CRISTIAN NAE Abstract While the proliferation of art biennials appeared to offer a platform for critical resistance and representation formulated in local terms in an increasingly networked world, their conjunction with (and inseparability from) the global flows of capital and the contemporary experiential culture led to an intensified critical scrutiny in the last decade. This … [Read more…]
CĂTĂLIN GHEORGHE Abstract Starting from a description of art activism, one of the relevant art movements in the XXIst century, as a working model for the possibility of a ‘things activism’, the article is approaching a series of posthumanist reasons to elaborate a ‘political aesthetics of things’ based on concepts derived from the sociology of … [Read more…]
CRISTINA MORARU Abstract This paper is approaching the problematics discussed around the concept of national identity in our post-political times, investigating how contemporary art practices produce meaning inside this theoretical structure based on argumentative positions concerning the indeterminate, fragmented, and ambiguous constitution of any national identity, the imaginative nature of a community − assuming for … [Read more…]
DANIEL IONICĂ Abstract Censorship is one of the most important defense mechanisms of an ideology and the political system within a state. By controlling information sources the censors must ensure the optimal operation of the system they defend. Censorship as a social reality appeared along with the apparition of books, although institutionalized censorship occurred after … [Read more…]
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EWA BOBROWSKA Abstract This paper examines the Greek concept of khôra, as presented in Plato’ Timaeus, in its function as a prerequisite and spatial image of contemporary democracy, with regard to the interrelation between the notions of space and freedom. The topography of liberty is considered in the light of Jean-Luc Nancy’s The Experience of … [Read more…]
OANA ȘERBAN Abstract At 50 years from May ’68 and 150 years from the moment when Marx’s Capital was published, revisiting the Situationist International appears to be one of the most urgent tasks that any attentive observer of the effects of the French “intellectual revolution” must fulfil in order to explain the cultural synchronicities and … [Read more…]