SOMMAIRE

Horea Poenar, A World to Win. But in Whose Image?


I. The Challenge of Community

Simon Harel, Face aux littératures des Premières Nations
Florin Poenaru, We, the People!: Community, Populism and the Crisis of Political Representation
Alex Cistelecan, Community Building in Post-historical Times
Vladimir Borțun, The EU is Naked: The Progressive Clothes of a Capitalist Project
Horea Poenar, Bad New World. The (Relative) Rebirth of the Commons
Călina Părău, Community and Togetherness after the Non-sharable
Alexandru Matei, De la métaphysique du « commun » au « comment vivre ensemble ». Jean-Luc Nancy et Roland Barthes sur la communauté
Aura Poenar, Reconstructing Communities. In Spite of all Machinery of Disimagination
Corin Braga, L’attaque contre l’individualité dans les antiutopies totalitaires modernes
Diana I. Santiago, Slaves and Slavery in the 19th Century Puerto Rican Literature
Laura T. Ilea, Inch’Allah : La honte et la « géographie de l’affect »
Emmanuela Pustan, On the Artistic Propensity of Pathology: Georges Didi-Huberman and the Invention of Hysteria


II. Communities at Work

Ioan Pop-Curșeu, Can Art (Re)build a Community? The Roşia Montană Case, between Past and Future
Ruxandra Cesereanu, Political Escapes from Prisons and Camps in the 20th Century – Antisystemic Mentalities
Marius Lazăr, What Can Be Seen. Documenting the Transition Between Telling and Showing
Carmen Borbély, Communities under Erasure in Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark
Petronia Popa Petrar, Written Communities: Imagining Connection in Virginia Woolf’s Novels
Alina Monica Toma, Dystopian Community in Lois Lowry’s Novel The Giver
Amalia Cotoi, Mircea Nedelciu’s Community of Tratament fabulatoriu
Rareș Moldovan, The State of Play: Geektopia in Ready Player One
Doru Pop, Deterritorialized Cinema, Dislocated Spaces and Disembodied Characters in Bogdan Mirică’s Câini
Mihaiela Ilea, Niche Structures in Television. Video Poetry – Visually Reading the Reality
Răzvan Cîmpean, Kaleidoscopic History. Visually Representing Community in Tarkovsky’s The Mirror
Cristina Popescu, The Woman as a Misfit in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Tetralogy
Cristina Diamant, Stranger(s’) Voices at Home. The Many Faces of Cillian Murphy as the Misfit
Iulia Rădac, The Posture of the Writer in a Teenager’s Book: Mircea Eliade’s Romanul Adolescentului Miop

Book Reviews

SUMMARY

Carmen Borbély & Petronia Popa Petrar, Foreword

I. Configurations of Posthumanist Thought

Horea Poenar, (Another) Year Zero: The Commons in a Posthuman Age
Rareș Moldovan, Authentes: a Shadow-Play or A Series of Observations in “Post” about Authenticity
Călina Părău, Thinking and Constructing Moments of Split
Attila Kovács, Anonymity and Spectral Existence in Urban Space
Marius Conkan, Mapping Literature: Geocritical Thinking and Posthumanism
Marie-Agnès Cathiard, De l’« imaginaïf » en prosthétique
Cosmina Moroșan, Peace and Technology. Michel Serres

II. Figurations of Posthuman Becoming

Christian Moraru, Crossing the Kafka Network: Schulz, Blecher, Foer, and the Repositioning of the Human
Giovanni Rotiroti, Subjectivations et désubjectivations post-humaines. Corps de langage et flux inconscients dans le matérialisme enchanté d’Urmuz et Gherasim Luca à partir de la pensée de Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari
Doru Pop, Replicant Theologies of the Early Robocene or The Covenant of Procreating Replicants, Cybernetic Fertility and Divine Androids
Alina Preda, “New Planets for Old”: A Posthumanist Ecocritical Approach to Jeanette Winterson’s Ustopia
Ruxandra Cesereanu, Lanark and Unthank – Posthuman Elements in Alasdair Gray’s Novel
Diana Melnic, Vlad Melnic, Shortcut to Posthumanism: Decentring Elements of the Gaming Experience
Kwasu D. Tembo, Among Them but Not One of Them: A Xenological Exploration of the Otherness and Power of DC Comics’ Superman
Nóra Máthé, “Are You Thor, the God of Hammers?” – Mixing the Posthuman and Old Norse Mythology in Thor: Ragnarok
Nicolae Andrei Szilagyi, The Human in the Context of a Posthuman World
Cristina Diamant, Archiva(b)l(e) Bodies and Cyber Afterlife in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas
Marius Viorel Pușcaș, From Narrative Art to Discourse. A Posthuman Approach in Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife

III. Refiguring Past Trauma, Prefiguring an Apocalyptic Future

Corin Braga, Antiutopies apocalyptiques et posthumaines
Andrada Danilescu, Beyond the Human: Transhumanist Negotiations and Posthuman Instantiations in Aldoux Huxley’s Brave New World and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas
Dana Bizuleanu, Svetlana Alexievich and Posthuman Narratives
Anamaria Lupan, Marguerite Yourcenar et le post-humanisme
Dana Percec, The Canadian Tempest. Margaret Atwood and Shakespeare Retold as Hag-Seed
Aura Poenar, Necessary Monsters. Monstrous Narratives. Haunted Images of Our Time

Book Reviews