In Homo Catastrophicus Louis Armand explores the agonism of an emergent Algorithmic State Apparatus. Its genealogy traverses the constellation of aesthetic & political avant-gardes of the long 20th century & the terminal shock of posthumanism. Technology has always posed a challenge to notions of human subjectivity. Yet this challenge cannot be…[Read more]

Foreword by Silvia Federici. ‘Training for Exploitation’ provides a pedagogical framework to deconstruct dominant narratives around work, employability and careers, and explores alternative ways of engaging with work and the economy. Training for Exploitation? includes tools for critically examining the relationship between education, work and…[Read more]

Valeria Graziano in conversation with Tihana Pupovać

Article published in Croatian translation as ‘Životna Vještina Raje: Institucionalno Krparenje I Pučki Ilegalizmi’, Kritika, 5(1), 125-146.

Figure it Out (FIO) is an artistic and research project engaging practices and phenomena of coping, tinkering, making-do and circumventing exclusions that are developed by marginalized, underserved, discri…[Read more]

We in the plural. Performance gestures of antifascism

Black Sails (2014-2017) presented a prequel to Treasure Island mixed with real historical characters and events in a story of resistance against imperialist capitalism. The pirates were cast as rebels against a dominant system in which wealth is directed to those in charge, while those who work for it are left with little. The series dramatises…[Read more]

It is an article on Premchand’s most controversial short story, Kafan. This article attempts to describe how the story gives an alternative voice to the downtrodden and how the characters define a morality of their own, which is outside the purview of the Brahmanical framework. In an extremely hierarchical religious structure as in Hinduism, this…[Read more]

प्रमोद रंजन द्वारा संपादित “बहुजन साहित्य की सैद्धांतिकी” बहुजन साहित्य की अवधारणा का सैद्धांतिकरण करती है। यह पुस्तक बहुजन साहित्य के विभिन्न पहलुओं को गहराई से समझने और उनके सैद्धांतिक आधार को प्रस्तुत करने का प्रयास करती है।

बहुजन साहित्य की अवधारणा कई स्तरों पर विचरोत्तेजक है। सही मायने में यह प्रगतिशील, जनवादी और दलित साहि…[Read more]

Dreams frighten and attract us because of their ›otherness‹, their manifold deviations from the world we know when we are awake. One of the most consistently used techniques of coming to terms with this otherness has been the attempt to ›make sense‹ of dreams, to consider and portray them as messages which can and have to be deciphered. On the oth…[Read more]

Dreams frighten and attract us because of their ›otherness‹, their manifold deviations from the world we know when we are awake. One of the most consistently used techniques of coming to terms with this otherness has been the attempt to ›make sense‹ of dreams, to consider and portray them as messages which can and have to be deciphered. On the oth…[Read more]

The volume includes some of the papers presented in the Museikon section of the Annual Scientific Conference organised in 2023 by the Alba Iulia National Museum of the Great Union (Romania). The studies cover topics such as: the pious behavior of women in the Transylvanian Middle Ages, the possession of slaves and gypsies by the Wallachian…[Read more]

Presentation at the “Romanian American Negotiations in Education, Science, Culture, and Arts/Negocierile româno-americane în educație, știință, cultură și artă” Conference.
This paper explores Romanian women’s influence on US fashion, as representatives of European artistic, cultural and social elites and as genuine Parisiennes. This study trea…[Read more]

As a political model for the young democracy in interwar Romania, as a protector against threats to the sovereignty and integrity of the state, as a cultural model, and as a daily life, America represented for Romania a reference point, a factor of stability and progress. America was a model and ally of the civilized world!
Unfortunately,…[Read more]

The visual images in Dictee are famously captionless. They resist straightforward explanation. In writing image descriptions of the images in Dictee, I have tried to preserve the “captionlessness” of the original. The point here is not to explain the pictures—an image description is not identical to a caption—but to make Dictee more accessible to…[Read more]

This editorial project capitalizes on a first sample of the religious art of Maramureș, carefully and meticulously inventoried by Alexandru Baboș alongside the study of the architecture of the wooden churches of Maramureș. Since they alone account for almost half of all preserved icons from Maramureș, Alexander Ponekhalskyi’s icons have been sep…[Read more]

Mirza Athar Baig is a unique and unconventional novelist of Urdu. Each of his works of art constructs a new world. On top of that, his works also change the way we look at the world. His writings seem to be the stories of an adventurer, always trying to discover a new world. In 2022, when his novel Khafif Makhfi Ki Khwab Beeti came out, readers…[Read more]

There are many ways of reading a novel. Generally, the major components of the novel (characters, plot, etc.) are the focus of criticism. The linguistic resources that make up these major components of the novel are not usually analyzed. A novel, like a poem, is constructed from words. It also sets the boundaries of chapters with words,…[Read more]

There are many ways of reading a novel. Generally, the major components of the novel (characters, plot, etc.) are the focus of criticism. The linguistic resources that make up these major components of the novel are not usually analyzed. A novel, like a poem, is constructed from words. It also sets the boundaries of chapters with words,…[Read more]