The purpose of this volume was to bring together two previously published studies on two different archaeological units of the same site. This idea came as the authors have a long experience on what it means to keep searching and bring together information in order to have an overall picture on a subject. Furthermore, the stratigraphic and the numismatic analyses of the two archaeological units – the baths complex and the vicus – offer the possibility to synchronise the building phases between the baths and the vicus and to include the numismatic evidence in the general statistics of the site (tables; graphs).

Certainly, one can ask why we did not proceed from the beginning directly with a book? It was all depending on various unpredictable factors such as: the area of excavations; the length of the period for systematic investigations/year; the relevance – quantity and quality – of the numismatic evidence that was going to be collected during excavations; the financial support involved to allow, first, to continue the archaeological investigations, second, to which scale can the excavations be carried on.

The rescue excavations following the building of a segment of the motorway A3, Brașov-Borș, have led to the discovery of almost the entire area of the archaeological site of Sutor (hypothetically identified with the ancient Optatiana mentioned on the Peutinger’s Tabula): the auxiliary fort, the bath complex and the vicus. Unfortunately, as the investigations has proven, the auxiliary fort area cannot be properly excavated as the alluvial layer – a consequence of the numerous floods of the river Almaş in 1879, 1980 – has a thickness up to 2 m.

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

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