The Rise, the Fall, and the Resurgence of Theory: Critique of Suspicion, Critique Beyond Suspicion Laura PAVEL Abstract: The article stands for a critical argument for the present themed issue of Ekphrasis, devoted to Aftermaths of Critical Theory in Cinema, Literature, Art and Visual Culture. This short introduction briefly presents the interpretive perspective of each of the articles, pointing out that th... Read More Keywords: political turn in arts and humanities, critical theory, post-critical, school of suspicion, the Eastern scene |
Echoes, Specters and the Work of Critical Theory Horea POENAR Abstract: The fashion of post-theory seems itself outdated now. After almost two decades of attacks on critical theory, on the political Left and on the intersection between aesthetics and politics, the tide is certainly turning. Faced with a world in which the violence of neoliberalism and the failures of multicultu... Read More Keywords: critical theory, contemporary art, avant garde, disutopia, courage |
The Emancipated Theorist: Indisciplinarity and the Academia Carlo COMANDUCCI Abstract: By refusing a distribution of roles between theorists and spectators, between critical and non-critical subjects, Jacques Rancière’s theory of intellectual emancipation is in some ways anticipating the eclipse of film theory and of critical theory as academic disciplines. Read More Keywords: Academia, the Common, Critical theory, Discipline, Emancipation, Indisciplinarity, Jacques Rancière |
Doru POP Abstract: Many authors have announced the death of theory or the end of criticism, while others tried in recent years to reinvigorate Critical Theory or Marxism, in an effort to adapt them to the realities of the XXI-st century. There are several lines of questioning here, the first is if the analytical principles d... Read More Keywords: Marxism, cinema studies, Critical Theory, post-theory, dialectical method, negation of negation |
Roland Barthes and the Reception of French Structuralism in Socialist Romania Alexandru MATEI Abstract: This article discusses French literary structuralism following the perspective of the history of ideas and the problematic of cultural transfers. The interest in structuralism is here primarily political/ideological, in so far as, during the 1960s, the structuralist approach to literature played an importan... Read More Keywords: French structuralism, Roland Barthes, literary theory, Eastern European intellectuals, Virgil Nemoianu, Mihai Botez, Thomas Pavel. |
Ana TECAR Abstract: The present paper proposes a questioning of the ways in which, in the long-durational performance, there occurs an overestimation of the temporal regime of the present, to which a “stage” presence of the performer corresponds, understood as a “live”, in corpore, unmediated p... Read More Keywords: long-durational performance, temporal turn, pres-ence/absence, trace, repetition, critical theory, defetishization |
Digital Technology and The New Arts From The Philosophy of Technology Perspective Rodica MOCAN Abstract: Nowadays, notions such as body, time, space, identity, reality, are all redefined in new thinking frames, determined by the impact of new technologies and new media on life. All of these concerns about the relationship with technologies and how they affect lifestyles in the information age are at the heart... Read More Keywords: philosophy of technology, digital interactive performance, new technologies, information age, and digital arts. |
The World Seen Through a Vagina. The Photography of Private Space in Dani Lessnau’s Experiment Alexandra TURCU Abstract: This paper aims to renegotiate the place of the photography of private space, as the recent experiments in this area show that it is imperative that the moral censorship with which it has been surrounded by the sovereign power be undone. In the first section of the paper I will analyse Hannah Arendt’... Read More Keywords: private and public realm, Hannah Arendt, the civil contract of photography, Ariella Azoulay, Dani Lessnau |
Iulia CÂRDAN Abstract: The paper has the aim of offering a critical perspective on gender and identity, following the line suggested by Judith Butler and Gayatri Spivak, whose theories and visions are reflected in the movies In a Year of 13 Moons by Rainer Fassbinder and Morer como un homem by Jaou Pedro Rodrig... Read More Keywords: queer studies, alienation, gender, identity, film theory |
Dragoș BUCUR Abstract: This paper aims to identify a topo-nomologial principle (as described by Jacques Derrida concerning the concept of the archive) at the level of discourse within the Judeo-Christian culture regarding the practices and customs that are either imposed or forbidden by this type of discourse. The analysis attemp... Read More Keywords: topo-nomological, religious practices, religious loopholes, alterity, circumcision, excision, Judaism |
Dispelling the Ideology of Immortality. Reading Kundera through Critical Theory Lenses Adriana TEODORESCU Abstract: The present study aims at analysing the representations of symbolic immortality in Milan Kundera’s novel, Immortality (1999), and at assessing their potential to function as a critique of the current ways in which Western society configures immortality based on an over-pacifying principle ca... Read More Keywords: symbolic immortality, critical theory, the Other, deconstruction, Kundera, Sartre |
New and Old Realities in Romanian and Hungarian Cinema Nicoleta SĂLCUDEAN Abstract: Review of: Anna Batori, Space in Romanian and Hungarian Cinema, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Read MoreKeywords: Anna Batori, Space in Romanian and Hungarian Cinema, Palgrave Macmillan |
The Restoration of the Dialectical Modernism Cosmin BORZA Abstract: Review of: Teodora Dumitru, Rețeaua modernităților: Paul de Man – Matei Călinescu – Antoine Compagnon [The Web o f Modernities: Paul de M an – Matei Călinescu – Antoine Compagnon], Bucharest: Editura Muzeul Literaturii Române, 2016 Read MoreKeywords: Teodora Dumitru, Rețeaua modernităților: Paul de Man – Matei Călinescu – Antoine Compagnon, The Web of Modernities: Paul de Man – Matei Călinescu – Antoine Compagnon, Editura Muzeul Literaturii Române |
Sanda CORDOŞ Abstract: Review of: Adriana Stan, Bastionul lingvistic. O istorie comparată a structuralismului în România [The Linguistic Bastion. A Comparative History of Structuralism in Romania], București: Editura Muzeul Literaturii Române, 2017. Read MoreKeywords: Adriana Stan, Bastionul lingvistic. O istorie comparată a structuralismului în România, The Linguistic Bastion. A Comparative History of Structuralism in Romania, Editura Muzeul Literaturii Române |
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