Florentina C Andreescu
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 642924 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Florentina C Andreescu |
| NOMBRES | Florentina C |
| APELLIDO | Andreescu |
| FIRMA | ANDREESCU F C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of North Carolina Wilmington |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Existence hacked
Disembodiment and Delusion in the Time of Covid-19
This article proposes an analytical framework that highlights embodiment’s ontological complexities and the ways in which the securitization of the body, during the COVID-19 pandemic, brought our embodied existence under the scrutiny of the invasive gaze of multiple social authorities, framing public and private modes of being as existential security risks. It engages with the research developed by psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist and clinical psych…
A meditation on Covid-19 social trauma
This article explores covid-19 as a social traumatic event that thoroughly disrupted our ordinary plane of existence. In doing so, it opened a window to an uncanny world, in which the virus, manifesting profuse agentic capacity, repurposes to its benefit, to travel and multiply, human bodies and various global assemblages. Covid-19 pandemic's challenge to the social grounding structure in turn perturbs our sense of ontological security. Meditatin…
Jill Massino, Ambiguous Transitions
Donald Trump’s appeal
This article explores the appeal of President Donald Trump’s persona in North American society, appeal that enabled the formation of a fan-base-like loyal and passionate constituency. The analysis centres on two radical social changes that created the conditions of possibility for Trump’s emergence as a prominent political figure. First, it discusses a shift from a society of discipline to one driven by enjoyment. Here it looks into the consequen…
Opening up Bodies for Harvest
This article explores the ways in which global capitalism, enabled by developments in transplantation technology, cuts into human flesh, leading to reimagining bodies as complex assemblages of various replaceable parts. It traces the extent to which, the ontos of the human vanishes into this fragmented flesh, that manifests an existence which is no longer tied to the presence of the human body. It further reads the fictive kinship narratives, wea…
The Romanians Are Coming (2015)
The Channel 4 documentary series The Romanians Are Coming generated strong protests within the Romanian community, stressing the unfair depiction of the Romanian immigrants through its disproportionate focus on extreme poverty and the Roma community. This article explores the psychoanalytic dynamics that keep orienting the British gaze toward certain associations of images that recur in this film. It highlights the juxtaposition the film enacts b…
War, trauma and the militarized body
Embodied subjects in late capitalism
Gypsy fetish
This article offers a reading of Transylvania (2006) directed by Tony Gatlif. It makes evident Gypsy identity’s unconscious dynamics when it occupies the position of a fetish within the cinematic story and in the interaction of the viewer with the exotic images on the screen. This specific reading argues that Gypsy fetish signals and covers over a site of psychic pain for the protagonist as well as for the viewer. Our argument insists that as a f…
Covering over Trauma with a Fetishized Body Image
This article reflects on late capitalism's societal shift from one structured by language and the prohibition of enjoyment, to one in which images and the command to enjoy have become the driving force, and this shift's connection to the increased societal need for cosmetic surgeries. I argue that this shift has impacted one's sense of ontological security usually provided by symbolic networks. The new, narcissistic subject's body inhabiting the …
From Communism to Capitalism
The article identifies a historical shift in the representation of the worker hero in the narratives of Romanian movies after the 1989 revolution. While the prerevolutionary narratives were organized around the state, postrevolutionary narratives are organized around the market. Moreover, while the prerevolutionary narratives were structured around masochistic/passive fantasies of the satisfaction of the desire of the worker through the body of t…
Narcissism and abject aesthetics
In this article, we explore the tendency of a number of television and art shows to challenge the usual cosmetic surgery industry’s focus on the before and after images and instead bring to central stage the time of surgery itself, when the body is immobilized, cut open and remoulded. In this context, we refer to the television series Nip/Tuck and also to the art shows of Jonathan Yeo’ You’re Only Young Twice and Anthony C. Berlet’s I Am Art: An …
Genre and the Communist Woman
This work is a critical intervention into the archive of female identity; it reflects on the ways in which the Central and Eastern European female ideal was constructed
From Communism to Capitalism
This book offers an interdisciplinary mode of analyzing transitions from communism and planned economy to democracy and capitalism focusing on how the various social and political transformations are
Seeing the Romanian Transition in Cinematic Space
This article focuses on the space of the nation as presented in the films produced in Romania during the communist, transition to democracy, and democratic eras. The author’s analysis addresses cinematic space, the rules that exist within it, the authority of the space, as well as the specific ways in which certain identities are created and integrated in such cinematic spaces. The author traces the persistence of a number of spaces in films prod…
Romanian Cinematic Nationhood
This article analyses the way the concept of nation is reflected in film using the theory of cinematic nationhood and the method of relational constructivism. More specifically, it looks at how the nation can be legitimised when it occupies a strategic position within the national structure of fantasy and when it is closely associated with the most relevant commonplaces present within the social space. The article further investigates the situati…
The changing face of the Other in Romanian films
This article focuses on how the Other is represented and understood in films produced in Romania during periods of radical political, social and economic change. Specifically it addresses films produced during the years of communism and the planned economy, during the transition to democracy and to capitalism, as well as films produced during the period of democracy, capitalism and membership in the European Union. The research acknowledges two m…
Covering over Trauma with a Fetishized Body Image
This article reflects on late capitalism's societal shift from one structured by language and the prohibition of enjoyment, to one in which images and the command to enjoy have become the driving force, and this shift's connection to the increased societal need for cosmetic surgeries. I argue that this shift has impacted one's sense of ontological security usually provided by symbolic networks. The new, narcissistic subject's body inhabiting the …
From Communism to Capitalism
The article identifies a historical shift in the representation of the worker hero in the narratives of Romanian movies after the 1989 revolution. While the prerevolutionary narratives were organized around the state, postrevolutionary narratives are organized around the market. Moreover, while the prerevolutionary narratives were structured around masochistic/passive fantasies of the satisfaction of the desire of the worker through the body of t…
Seeing the Romanian Transition in Cinematic Space
This article focuses on the space of the nation as presented in the films produced in Romania during the communist, transition to democracy, and democratic eras. The author’s analysis addresses cinematic space, the rules that exist within it, the authority of the space, as well as the specific ways in which certain identities are created and integrated in such cinematic spaces. The author traces the persistence of a number of spaces in films prod…
The changing face of the Other in Romanian films
This article focuses on how the Other is represented and understood in films produced in Romania during periods of radical political, social and economic change. Specifically it addresses films produced during the years of communism and the planned economy, during the transition to democracy and to capitalism, as well as films produced during the period of democracy, capitalism and membership in the European Union. The research acknowledges two m…
The changing face of the Other in Romanian films
This article focuses on how the Other is represented and understood in films produced in Romania during periods of radical political, social and economic change. Specifically it addresses films produced during the years of communism and the planned economy, during the transition to democracy and to capitalism, as well as films produced during the period of democracy, capitalism and membership in the European Union. The research acknowledges two m…
Romanian Cinematic Nationhood
This article analyses the way the concept of nation is reflected in film using the theory of cinematic nationhood and the method of relational constructivism. More specifically, it looks at how the nation can be legitimised when it occupies a strategic position within the national structure of fantasy and when it is closely associated with the most relevant commonplaces present within the social space. The article further investigates the situati…
From Communism to Capitalism
This book offers an interdisciplinary mode of analyzing transitions from communism and planned economy to democracy and capitalism focusing on how the various social and political transformations are
Seeing the Romanian Transition in Cinematic Space
This article focuses on the space of the nation as presented in the films produced in Romania during the communist, transition to democracy, and democratic eras. The author’s analysis addresses cinematic space, the rules that exist within it, the authority of the space, as well as the specific ways in which certain identities are created and integrated in such cinematic spaces. The author traces the persistence of a number of spaces in films prod…
Gypsy fetish
This article offers a reading of Transylvania (2006) directed by Tony Gatlif. It makes evident Gypsy identity’s unconscious dynamics when it occupies the position of a fetish within the cinematic story and in the interaction of the viewer with the exotic images on the screen. This specific reading argues that Gypsy fetish signals and covers over a site of psychic pain for the protagonist as well as for the viewer. Our argument insists that as a f…
Covering over Trauma with a Fetishized Body Image
This article reflects on late capitalism's societal shift from one structured by language and the prohibition of enjoyment, to one in which images and the command to enjoy have become the driving force, and this shift's connection to the increased societal need for cosmetic surgeries. I argue that this shift has impacted one's sense of ontological security usually provided by symbolic networks. The new, narcissistic subject's body inhabiting the …
From Communism to Capitalism
The article identifies a historical shift in the representation of the worker hero in the narratives of Romanian movies after the 1989 revolution. While the prerevolutionary narratives were organized around the state, postrevolutionary narratives are organized around the market. Moreover, while the prerevolutionary narratives were structured around masochistic/passive fantasies of the satisfaction of the desire of the worker through the body of t…
Narcissism and abject aesthetics
In this article, we explore the tendency of a number of television and art shows to challenge the usual cosmetic surgery industry’s focus on the before and after images and instead bring to central stage the time of surgery itself, when the body is immobilized, cut open and remoulded. In this context, we refer to the television series Nip/Tuck and also to the art shows of Jonathan Yeo’ You’re Only Young Twice and Anthony C. Berlet’s I Am Art: An …
Genre and the Communist Woman
This work is a critical intervention into the archive of female identity; it reflects on the ways in which the Central and Eastern European female ideal was constructed
War, trauma and the militarized body
Embodied subjects in late capitalism
Opening up Bodies for Harvest
This article explores the ways in which global capitalism, enabled by developments in transplantation technology, cuts into human flesh, leading to reimagining bodies as complex assemblages of various replaceable parts. It traces the extent to which, the ontos of the human vanishes into this fragmented flesh, that manifests an existence which is no longer tied to the presence of the human body. It further reads the fictive kinship narratives, wea…
The Romanians Are Coming (2015)
The Channel 4 documentary series The Romanians Are Coming generated strong protests within the Romanian community, stressing the unfair depiction of the Romanian immigrants through its disproportionate focus on extreme poverty and the Roma community. This article explores the psychoanalytic dynamics that keep orienting the British gaze toward certain associations of images that recur in this film. It highlights the juxtaposition the film enacts b…
Donald Trump’s appeal
This article explores the appeal of President Donald Trump’s persona in North American society, appeal that enabled the formation of a fan-base-like loyal and passionate constituency. The analysis centres on two radical social changes that created the conditions of possibility for Trump’s emergence as a prominent political figure. First, it discusses a shift from a society of discipline to one driven by enjoyment. Here it looks into the consequen…
Jill Massino, Ambiguous Transitions
A meditation on Covid-19 social trauma
This article explores covid-19 as a social traumatic event that thoroughly disrupted our ordinary plane of existence. In doing so, it opened a window to an uncanny world, in which the virus, manifesting profuse agentic capacity, repurposes to its benefit, to travel and multiply, human bodies and various global assemblages. Covid-19 pandemic's challenge to the social grounding structure in turn perturbs our sense of ontological security. Meditatin…
Disembodiment and Delusion in the Time of Covid-19
This article proposes an analytical framework that highlights embodiment’s ontological complexities and the ways in which the securitization of the body, during the COVID-19 pandemic, brought our embodied existence under the scrutiny of the invasive gaze of multiple social authorities, framing public and private modes of being as existential security risks. It engages with the research developed by psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist and clinical psych…
Existence hacked
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