Ștefan Baghiu
Biographic Data
| ID | 4437482 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ștefan Baghiu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ștefan |
| FAMILY NAME | Baghiu |
| SIGNATURE | BAGHIU Ș |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3442-1455 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Plot străin, structură de clasă locală: Frica de slugi și realismul semiperiferic
An introduction to cosmopolitanism and nationalism in late socialism
This special issue on “Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Late Socialist Cultures” revisits cosmopolitanism and nationalism in the cultural, political, and intellectual landscapes of late socialism in Central and Eastern Europe. The introduction builds on Alexei Yurchak’s paradox of the Soviet “eternal state” and Ronald Grigor Suny’s account of nationalism as a centrifugal force, while the contributions interrogate the contradictions that marked …
Sublime industrial workscapes: Socialist realist aesthetics and Kant in the East
This article starts from the premise that it has become increasingly necessary to revisit how Marxist-Leninist aesthetics, particularly in their Soviet context, shaped the contemporary understandings of modern concepts in philosophy. The essay also introduces the concept of the “industrial sublime” in order to analyze how the modern transformation of nature, especially in the context of socialist developmentalism, redirected the central concepts …
Letters of recognition: The spatial inscription of literature in the Romanian street nomenclature
Similar to other countries from Central and South-Eastern Europe, Romania’s cultural field developed as a literature-centric system. Throughout the process of nation-making and state-building that unfolded starting with the early nineteenth century, literary figures (writers, poets, and other men of letters) have played a critical role in shaping Romanians’ historical consciousness and national identity. This paper intersects the conceptual persp…
The global polycrisis and the Romanian elections of 2024
Neoliberalism restaged: Austerity and the politics of threat in Romania
Anticolonial protochronism and self-colonizing postmodernism: Rethinking cultural strategies in late Socialist Romania
This paper proposes a counterintuitive reading of cultural production in late socialist Romania by reframing the ideological struggles of the 1970s and 1980s as part of a broader global dynamic of anticolonial and self-colonizing strategies. Challenging conventional associations of postcolonial critique with postcommunist liberalism, I argue that protochronism and ultranationalism under Ceauşescu can be understood as forms of anticolonial discour…
Communist Cyberaesthetics: Theories of Computer Assisted Art and Criticism in Socialist Romania
From the early 1960s, cybernetics became a buzzword in the Soviet space, progressively gaining traction as the defining term for future developments in the planned economy. Recent studies reveal how cybernetics played a pivotal role in shaping a new kind of cyberspeak in Soviet Russia and its satellite countries during the post-Stalinist period. While cultural debates in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe fostered renewed discussions on modernis…
Loony platform politics: The Romanian far-right performance and the digital dystopia of 2024
The transmedial triangulation of Dracula: How cinema turned the Gothic bloodsucker into a Gothicized serial killer
G. M. Amza and Al. Bilciurescu’s Vampirul ( The Vampire ), the first vampire novel in Romania, was published in 1938, a decade after the release of the first translation of Dracula into Romanian. Instead of emulating Stoker’s bloodthirsty undead aristocrat, the two authors envision a priest who exploits the community’s magical thinking, masquerading as a vampire-serial killer and haunting the increasingly industrialized community in the hopes of …
Capitalist Heterotopia & Lost Social Utopia: Documenting Class, Work, and Migration in Post-Communist East-Central European Fiction
Some of the most acclaimed novels from post-communist countries deal with communism through an anti-communist ethos. The emerging international canon of post-communist representations of communism and transition to capitalism has always sought to enfoce a convincing anti-communist ideal. Writers have only recently formulated critiques of the post-communist transition through what Boris Buden describes as post-communist cultures without social uto…
Tragedy of Monsters: Vampire Fears, Melodrama, and the Modern Horror
The contemporary understanding of the vampire trope is not solely a literary construct but also the outcome of its theatrical adaptations, often following closely after the publication of the seminal works that shaped the myth. Despite the occasional reading of vampires as tragic figures, works featuring these creatures have yet to be staged as tragedies, translating instead to melodramas and musicals. This article examines theatrical renditions …
The Slow Cancellation of the Future: Capitalist Realism within the Combined and Uneven Development
This essay is the English translation of Stefan Baghiu’s introduction to the Romanian translation of Mark Fisher’s 2009 Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?. It delves into how Fisher’s book fits into his broader body of work, emphasizing the functional role of his concept of capitalist realism within the context of world systems theory and the paradigm of combined and uneven development. The preface is both a praise of the term and a cri…
Beyond the Iron Curtain: Revisiting the Literary System of Communist Romania
Drawing on methodologies pertaining to Digital Humanities, World Literature, and Comparative Literature, the volume aims to challenge some of the enduring clichés regarding the literary production of Romanian communism. The first section focuses on socialist realism, socialist modernism, representations of the rural, and rural modernity. The second section deals with literary cosmopolitanism, literary dissidence, countercultural literary producti…
Compensation and Kin Selection in the Long Nineteenth Century Translationscapes
Using network models and quantitative methods, the present article provides a bird’s-eye-view of the Romanian novelistic translationscape published in volumes during the “long 19th century”. The study approaches the cultural production of translated novels in the selected period from a relational perspective, aiming to investigate the connections between different publishers, with their respective editorial practices, and the translated authors s…
Existentialism, existentialists, and Marxism: From critique to integration within the philosophical establishment in Socialist Romania
In this paper, we discuss how existentialism was criticized, disseminated, and gradually autochthonized in the main philosophical journals of Socialist Romania. We show that the early critique of existentialism was both a statement against contemporary bourgeois philosophy in general and a condemnation of the local philosophical production of the interwar period. In the 1950s, this kind of critique was attuned to the growing fame of several Roman…
Liviu Rebreanu și Sofia Nădejde ca world literature: Geopolitică, interimperialitate și descoperirea lumii în romanul modern
The article analyzes the way in which explicit inter-imperial debates are incorporated through narrative discourse and characters’ discourse in two Romanian novels. Drawing on Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă’s recently published book Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires (Cornell University Press, 2022), Baghiu re-reads Liviu Rebreanu’s 1920 Ion and Sofia Nădejde’s 1903 Patimi in a world system frame. The analysis shows that Liviu…
Apartenența multiplă de subgen: O propunere pentru istoria formelor romanești
This article proposes the acceptance of the existence of multiple subgenres in the taxonomy of novels. It explains how an “evolutionary” perspective on the novel can help us understand how genres and subgenres are never “pure” or “unique” and that one has to engage the plurality of subgenres through which one novel can be classified in order to understand the evolution of literary forms
On W.E.B. Du Bois, Double Consciousness, and Racialized Modernity. An Interview with José Itzigsohn
The February issue of Transilvania journal hosts an interview with professor José Itzigsohn focusing on his activity within the field of sociology and his latest book with Karida L. Brown, on The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois. Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line (New York University Press, 2020). It delves into Du Boisian sociology, “double consciousness” and racialized modernity, alongside contemporary decolonial perspectives and new …
W.E.B. Du Bois în studiile contemporane: Conștiința dublă și modernitatea rasializată
This article outlines W.E.B. Du Bois’s general sociological theory and literary activity in connection to the recent study of Jose Itzigsohn and Karida L. Brown, The Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois. Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line. It describes the role of Double Consciousness and Racialized Modernity within postcolonial and decolonial theory and explains how postcolonial Romanian studies have engaged with postcolonial theory by avoidi…
Translations of Novels in the Romanian Culture during the Interwar Period and WWII (1918-1944): A Quantitative Perspective
This article continues the quantitative analysis of translations of novels in Romania for the 1918-1944 period. Baghiu discusses the decay of the French novel (from almost 70% of the total of translated novels during the long 19th century to almost 43% during the interwar period), and the case of two competitors in the second line of translations (American and Russian). The article turns then to the European and Global peripheries from the perspe…
Romancierele: Traducerile de romane scrise de femei în cultura română (1841-1918)
This article uses the data from the Chronological Dictionary of Novels Translated in Romania from its Origins to 1989 in order to chart the presence of foreign women novelists and their works in Romanian translation between 1841 (the year of the first translation of a novel originally written by a woman author, Sophie Cottin) and 1918 (the year marking the end of the long nineteenth century and the unification of Romanian provinces). The study se…
Precaritate și cosmopolitism în romanul românesc (1845-1947): Muncă, hrană, sănătate, îmbrăcăminte, mondenitate
The present study dwells on an archive that includes around 85% of the Romanian production of novel from 1845 to 1947 and analyzes the social aspects of daily life in the fictional worlds of realist novels published in this timespan. From work conditions to the rights of employees, from hunger to bountifulness, from modesty to display, two different hemispheres seem to co-exist: a rustical and narrow one of the rural, liminal spaces, and a cosmop…
Critica ideologică în epoca limbajului administrativ de stânga: O istorie New Left a literaturii române contemporane
As Teodora Dumitru (2016) has convincingly argued in the case of Romanian literary critic Eugen Lovinescu, the evaluation of literature he proposed along his History of Contemporary Romanian Literature (1926-1929) was guided by a solid liberal and bourgeois drive. Claiming the autonomy of the aesthetics, Lovinescu actually built an urban bourgeois literary canon in his effort to systematize the local literary material. Almost 100 years later, Mih…
Temporalitatea internă a romanului românesc (1933-1947)
From the point of view of its internal temporality, the Romanian novel between 1933 and 1947 demonstrates an overwhelming preference for negotiating the present. After 1933 the world had already gone through a World War and a world economic crisis – so that the metabolism of the present in post-1933 Romanian novels can also be explained as a post-traumatic shock, an attempt to process the traumatic information of recent history. But the Romanian …
Geografia romanului românesc (1901-1932): Arealul național
This article is part of a series that investigates through quantitative and geocritical means the corpus of novels created by the research project Astra Data Mining. The Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel 1901-1932 (around 370 novels digitized). One of the many foci of our analyses delves into the internal geography of the Romanian novel as it manifests itself through geolocated metadata that reveal the spatial diversity of the corpus, concerni…
Diversitate identitară în romanul românesc (1844-1932)
This study explores, using intersectionality and quantitative analysis, several axes that help shape the identity of the characters in the fictional worlds from a corpus of approximately 500 Romanian novels published between 1844 and 1932. They are gender, ethnicity/nationality, and class/work. It also briefly analyzes the gender gap in the production of the novel and examines the dynamics between the gender of the authors and the gender of the m…
Geografia romanului românesc (1901-1932): Străinătatea
The Geography of the Romanian Novel (1901-1932): Spaces from Abroad This article charts the main cities mentioned in the Romanian novel published between 1901 and 1932 based on the corpus of novels created by the research project The Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel 1901-1932 (around 370 digitized novels). The main discoveries that our distant reading of the geography in these novels revealed are that the planet is covered in the Romanian nov…
Temporalitatea internă a romanului românesc (1844-1932)
The present article follows the relationship of the Romanian novelistic output between 1901 and 1932 with time and temporal distribution. Its emphasis falls on the degree of correlation between the time of publication and the time during which the events unfold for each corresponding novel, expressed through a variable coined “distance”. By making use of this variable, the temporal distribution of the novelistic corpus in the article clearly show…
Loony platform politics: The Romanian far-right performance and the digital dystopia of 2024
Liviu Rebreanu și Sofia Nădejde ca world literature: Geopolitică, interimperialitate și descoperirea lumii în romanul modern
The article analyzes the way in which explicit inter-imperial debates are incorporated through narrative discourse and characters’ discourse in two Romanian novels. Drawing on Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă’s recently published book Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires (Cornell University Press, 2022), Baghiu re-reads Liviu Rebreanu’s 1920 Ion and Sofia Nădejde’s 1903 Patimi in a world system frame. The analysis shows that Liviu…
Communist Cyberaesthetics: Theories of Computer Assisted Art and Criticism in Socialist Romania
From the early 1960s, cybernetics became a buzzword in the Soviet space, progressively gaining traction as the defining term for future developments in the planned economy. Recent studies reveal how cybernetics played a pivotal role in shaping a new kind of cyberspeak in Soviet Russia and its satellite countries during the post-Stalinist period. While cultural debates in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe fostered renewed discussions on modernis…
Critica ideologică în epoca limbajului administrativ de stânga: O istorie New Left a literaturii române contemporane
As Teodora Dumitru (2016) has convincingly argued in the case of Romanian literary critic Eugen Lovinescu, the evaluation of literature he proposed along his History of Contemporary Romanian Literature (1926-1929) was guided by a solid liberal and bourgeois drive. Claiming the autonomy of the aesthetics, Lovinescu actually built an urban bourgeois literary canon in his effort to systematize the local literary material. Almost 100 years later, Mih…
Diversitate identitară în romanul românesc (1933-1947)
Following the 2020 article on identity diversity in the Romanian novel, this study provides both a statistical account and individual examples of fictional representations of characters in the Romanian novel between 1933-1947. With a three-fold structure, our essay focuses at first on gender diversity, analyzing the ratios between female and male authors and female and male protagonists. It then concentrates on religious, ethnic, and national min…
Apartenența multiplă de subgen: O propunere pentru istoria formelor romanești
This article proposes the acceptance of the existence of multiple subgenres in the taxonomy of novels. It explains how an “evolutionary” perspective on the novel can help us understand how genres and subgenres are never “pure” or “unique” and that one has to engage the plurality of subgenres through which one novel can be classified in order to understand the evolution of literary forms
Precaritate și cosmopolitism în romanul românesc (1845-1947): Muncă, hrană, sănătate, îmbrăcăminte, mondenitate
The present study dwells on an archive that includes around 85% of the Romanian production of novel from 1845 to 1947 and analyzes the social aspects of daily life in the fictional worlds of realist novels published in this timespan. From work conditions to the rights of employees, from hunger to bountifulness, from modesty to display, two different hemispheres seem to co-exist: a rustical and narrow one of the rural, liminal spaces, and a cosmop…
Geografia romanului românesc (1933-1947): Străinătatea
This article analyzes the ways in which the Romanian novel published between 1933-1947 represents foreign cities, towns, peripheries, and villages in the fictional worlds. It asserts the democratization of the narrative universe through the planetary perspective of the novels and discusses the birth of the Global South imagery. The search was conducted on a corpus of 700 novels in the MDRR archive. The data is disposed through quantifying recurre…
Translations of Novels in the Romanian Culture During the Long Nineteenth Century (1794-1914): A Quantitative Perspective
This article uses quantitative methods to provide a macro perspective on translations of novels in Romanian culture during the long nineteenth century, by modifying Eric Hobsbawm’s 1789-1914 period, and using it as spanning from 1794 (the first registered local publishing of a translated novel) to 1918 (the end of the First World War). The article discusses the predominance of the French novel (almost 70% of the total of translated novels), the c…
The Sickle and the Piano. A Distant Reading of Work in the Nineteenth Century Romanian Novel
This article conducts a semantic search of The Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel: The 19th Century (MDRR), through which the authors attempt to identify the occurrences of several key concepts for class and labour imagery in the nineteenth-century Romanian novel, such as “muncă” [labour/work], “muncitor” [labourer/worker], “țăran” [peasant], “funcționar” [civil servant], alongside two main words that strikingly point out to a dissemblance of r…
Geografia romanului românesc (1901-1932): Străinătatea
The Geography of the Romanian Novel (1901-1932): Spaces from Abroad This article charts the main cities mentioned in the Romanian novel published between 1901 and 1932 based on the corpus of novels created by the research project The Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel 1901-1932 (around 370 digitized novels). The main discoveries that our distant reading of the geography in these novels revealed are that the planet is covered in the Romanian nov…
Geografia romanului românesc (1901-1932): Arealul național
This article is part of a series that investigates through quantitative and geocritical means the corpus of novels created by the research project Astra Data Mining. The Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel 1901-1932 (around 370 novels digitized). One of the many foci of our analyses delves into the internal geography of the Romanian novel as it manifests itself through geolocated metadata that reveal the spatial diversity of the corpus, concerni…
Temporalitatea internă a romanului românesc (1844-1932)
The present article follows the relationship of the Romanian novelistic output between 1901 and 1932 with time and temporal distribution. Its emphasis falls on the degree of correlation between the time of publication and the time during which the events unfold for each corresponding novel, expressed through a variable coined “distance”. By making use of this variable, the temporal distribution of the novelistic corpus in the article clearly show…
Diversitate identitară în romanul românesc (1844-1932)
This study explores, using intersectionality and quantitative analysis, several axes that help shape the identity of the characters in the fictional worlds from a corpus of approximately 500 Romanian novels published between 1844 and 1932. They are gender, ethnicity/nationality, and class/work. It also briefly analyzes the gender gap in the production of the novel and examines the dynamics between the gender of the authors and the gender of the m…
On W.E.B. Du Bois, Double Consciousness, and Racialized Modernity. An Interview with José Itzigsohn
The February issue of Transilvania journal hosts an interview with professor José Itzigsohn focusing on his activity within the field of sociology and his latest book with Karida L. Brown, on The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois. Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line (New York University Press, 2020). It delves into Du Boisian sociology, “double consciousness” and racialized modernity, alongside contemporary decolonial perspectives and new …
W.E.B. Du Bois în studiile contemporane: Conștiința dublă și modernitatea rasializată
This article outlines W.E.B. Du Bois’s general sociological theory and literary activity in connection to the recent study of Jose Itzigsohn and Karida L. Brown, The Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois. Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line. It describes the role of Double Consciousness and Racialized Modernity within postcolonial and decolonial theory and explains how postcolonial Romanian studies have engaged with postcolonial theory by avoidi…
Translations of Novels in the Romanian Culture during the Interwar Period and WWII (1918-1944): A Quantitative Perspective
This article continues the quantitative analysis of translations of novels in Romania for the 1918-1944 period. Baghiu discusses the decay of the French novel (from almost 70% of the total of translated novels during the long 19th century to almost 43% during the interwar period), and the case of two competitors in the second line of translations (American and Russian). The article turns then to the European and Global peripheries from the perspe…
Romancierele: Traducerile de romane scrise de femei în cultura română (1841-1918)
This article uses the data from the Chronological Dictionary of Novels Translated in Romania from its Origins to 1989 in order to chart the presence of foreign women novelists and their works in Romanian translation between 1841 (the year of the first translation of a novel originally written by a woman author, Sophie Cottin) and 1918 (the year marking the end of the long nineteenth century and the unification of Romanian provinces). The study se…
Precaritate și cosmopolitism în romanul românesc (1845-1947): Muncă, hrană, sănătate, îmbrăcăminte, mondenitate
The present study dwells on an archive that includes around 85% of the Romanian production of novel from 1845 to 1947 and analyzes the social aspects of daily life in the fictional worlds of realist novels published in this timespan. From work conditions to the rights of employees, from hunger to bountifulness, from modesty to display, two different hemispheres seem to co-exist: a rustical and narrow one of the rural, liminal spaces, and a cosmop…
Critica ideologică în epoca limbajului administrativ de stânga: O istorie New Left a literaturii române contemporane
As Teodora Dumitru (2016) has convincingly argued in the case of Romanian literary critic Eugen Lovinescu, the evaluation of literature he proposed along his History of Contemporary Romanian Literature (1926-1929) was guided by a solid liberal and bourgeois drive. Claiming the autonomy of the aesthetics, Lovinescu actually built an urban bourgeois literary canon in his effort to systematize the local literary material. Almost 100 years later, Mih…
Temporalitatea internă a romanului românesc (1933-1947)
From the point of view of its internal temporality, the Romanian novel between 1933 and 1947 demonstrates an overwhelming preference for negotiating the present. After 1933 the world had already gone through a World War and a world economic crisis – so that the metabolism of the present in post-1933 Romanian novels can also be explained as a post-traumatic shock, an attempt to process the traumatic information of recent history. But the Romanian …
Diversitate identitară în romanul românesc (1933-1947)
Following the 2020 article on identity diversity in the Romanian novel, this study provides both a statistical account and individual examples of fictional representations of characters in the Romanian novel between 1933-1947. With a three-fold structure, our essay focuses at first on gender diversity, analyzing the ratios between female and male authors and female and male protagonists. It then concentrates on religious, ethnic, and national min…
Geografia romanului românesc (1933-1947): Arealul național
This article analyzes the ways in which the Romanian novel published between 1933-1947 represents cities, towns, peripheries and villages in the fictional worlds. It asserts the democratization of the narrative universe through the novel of the periphery and discusses the birth of the touristic novel, in which characters often spend time in new areas for relaxation. It also challenges the idea of spatial atomization, since the geographical prefer…
Geografia romanului românesc (1933-1947): Străinătatea
This article analyzes the ways in which the Romanian novel published between 1933-1947 represents foreign cities, towns, peripheries, and villages in the fictional worlds. It asserts the democratization of the narrative universe through the planetary perspective of the novels and discusses the birth of the Global South imagery. The search was conducted on a corpus of 700 novels in the MDRR archive. The data is disposed through quantifying recurre…
Structuralismul în revistele de filozofie din România comunistă: Respingere și acomodare (1954-1967)
This article presents the reception of structuralism in linguistics, psychology, social sciences, anthropology, and literature as viewed from the perspective of the most important philosophical journals in Romanian communism, Cercetări filozofice [Philosophical Research] and Revista de filozofie [The Philosophy Magazine] during the period between 1953 and 1967. Following François Dosse’s delineation between two phases of the development of struct…
Natura în romanul românesc (1845-1947)
A post-anthropocentric epistemological assemblage becomes indispensable in the investigation of the ecology of the Romanian novel. We examine the interactive relationship of various dynamic systems, such as 1) the evolution of the Romanian novel, 2) the modes of representation of the environment, and 3) the social-political history of the autochthonous space. Using a wide range of methodological perspectives, this paper also examines the relation…
Beyond the Iron Curtain: Revisiting the Literary System of Communist Romania
Drawing on methodologies pertaining to Digital Humanities, World Literature, and Comparative Literature, the volume aims to challenge some of the enduring clichés regarding the literary production of Romanian communism. The first section focuses on socialist realism, socialist modernism, representations of the rural, and rural modernity. The second section deals with literary cosmopolitanism, literary dissidence, countercultural literary producti…
Compensation and Kin Selection in the Long Nineteenth Century Translationscapes
Using network models and quantitative methods, the present article provides a bird’s-eye-view of the Romanian novelistic translationscape published in volumes during the “long 19th century”. The study approaches the cultural production of translated novels in the selected period from a relational perspective, aiming to investigate the connections between different publishers, with their respective editorial practices, and the translated authors s…
Existentialism, existentialists, and Marxism: From critique to integration within the philosophical establishment in Socialist Romania
In this paper, we discuss how existentialism was criticized, disseminated, and gradually autochthonized in the main philosophical journals of Socialist Romania. We show that the early critique of existentialism was both a statement against contemporary bourgeois philosophy in general and a condemnation of the local philosophical production of the interwar period. In the 1950s, this kind of critique was attuned to the growing fame of several Roman…
Liviu Rebreanu și Sofia Nădejde ca world literature: Geopolitică, interimperialitate și descoperirea lumii în romanul modern
The article analyzes the way in which explicit inter-imperial debates are incorporated through narrative discourse and characters’ discourse in two Romanian novels. Drawing on Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă’s recently published book Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires (Cornell University Press, 2022), Baghiu re-reads Liviu Rebreanu’s 1920 Ion and Sofia Nădejde’s 1903 Patimi in a world system frame. The analysis shows that Liviu…
Apartenența multiplă de subgen: O propunere pentru istoria formelor romanești
This article proposes the acceptance of the existence of multiple subgenres in the taxonomy of novels. It explains how an “evolutionary” perspective on the novel can help us understand how genres and subgenres are never “pure” or “unique” and that one has to engage the plurality of subgenres through which one novel can be classified in order to understand the evolution of literary forms
The Slow Cancellation of the Future: Capitalist Realism within the Combined and Uneven Development
This essay is the English translation of Stefan Baghiu’s introduction to the Romanian translation of Mark Fisher’s 2009 Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?. It delves into how Fisher’s book fits into his broader body of work, emphasizing the functional role of his concept of capitalist realism within the context of world systems theory and the paradigm of combined and uneven development. The preface is both a praise of the term and a cri…
The transmedial triangulation of Dracula: How cinema turned the Gothic bloodsucker into a Gothicized serial killer
G. M. Amza and Al. Bilciurescu’s Vampirul ( The Vampire ), the first vampire novel in Romania, was published in 1938, a decade after the release of the first translation of Dracula into Romanian. Instead of emulating Stoker’s bloodthirsty undead aristocrat, the two authors envision a priest who exploits the community’s magical thinking, masquerading as a vampire-serial killer and haunting the increasingly industrialized community in the hopes of …
Philosophy (23 works) · Art (22 works) · Romanian (22 works) · Comparative and World Literature (21 works) · Linguistics (18 works) · Literature (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · History (13 works) · Aesthetics (12 works)