Cannibals
[Van Diemen’s Land] by Diana Todea God, what if we are all preys and hunters, crawling beneath bushes and trees, holding our breath till one of us passes
Drive in the orbit
by Diana Todea let’s drive in the orbit of time clash with machines & ambivalent speeds fast/forward meeting place
Subterranean Spark
by Lucian Mareș Truth I know the truth. Truth is unique, complete, undivided. And you are not part of it. Because your destiny is not here, not now. Your truth is somewhere in the future. The truth is a moral law given by precise knowledge of reality, and reality is only past, only history. Truth […]
Framework
Alexandru Potcoava:
The three ladies, Adel, Juliana and Medi, started their trip to the vegetable market. Medi led the way out of the apartment, pulling her leash tight. Drawn with open arms between the dog and the old lady, Juliana was trying to keep the crew together. Swinging on Adel’s bony hand the empty nest tote bag was the only unfazed partaker of this picture.
G.D. Falksen a Consummate Steampunk Writer
by Alina Roşu / G. D. Falksen [for the Romanian version of this article, please click here] Mr. G. D. Falksen is a writer and a student of history. His fiction work includes a wide range of genres such as historical fiction, steampunk, sci-fi and fantasy, horror, noir and spy-fi. Academically, his field of study […]
Dr. ASI [II]
[an interview with Dr. Adrian-Silvan Ionescu] by Adrian Ioniţă and Silvia-Alexandra Zaharia As promised, we continued our interview with Dr. ASI, exploring the wonderful world of re-enactment. We talked at length about Waterloo and his 2008 re-enactment, and poured the story in a cup too precious to be mixed by interventions. Here we have: Dr. Asi at Waterloo!
Interview Andrei Marga
[interview with our guest from this issue, Professor Andrei Marga] by Ştefan Bolea & Ormeny Francisc Norbert translated Romanian by Stâncel Theodora-Eva Ştefan Bolea: Professor, Francisc and I are doctoral students. You defended your PhD thesis in 1976, with a thesis on Marcuse. You also studied, in Germany under prof. Habermas’ supervision. What can you […]
What’s to Remain of the PhD?
by Andrei Marga translated from Romanian by Stâncel Theodora-Eva Once the PhD was considered to be the key to scientific formation. The subject and the proportion, of the PhD thesis foreshadowed the scientific personality, and the university was as strong the professors that illustrated it were prestigious. In recent decades the importance of the PhD […]
The Age of the Void?
by Andrei Marga translated from Romanian by Stâncel Theodora-Eva The expansion of the “cynical reason”- of that consideration of people that rather takes into account the place in administrative hierarchies, than their humanity- is just a sign of late modern society. Another one, at least in Gilles Lipovetzky’s opinion, is the “void”, a void of […]
“I am working for Europe”
[interview with the French Photographer Jean-Marc Caracci about his project “Homo Urbanus Europeanus“] by Sorin-Mihai Grad 1. Everybody is taking photos of churches while visiting a new city. How come that after intensively clicking into the galleries on your project’s site I did not notice any church? Well, working on the “Homo Urbanus Europeanus” project, […]