VOLUME 9(2) • 2021
Failed Species: The Rise and Fall of the Human Empire
ABSTRACT. “I’d like to share with you a revelation I’ve had, during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you aren’t actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with its surrounding environment, but you hu..
Exploring the Possibility of a ‘Fourthspace’ in American Post-Apocalyptic Narratives
ABSTRACT. American post-apocalyptic fiction appears to employ the concepts of rebuilding and recolonizing, and, indirectly, the notion of cultural negotiation, all of which rely on degrees of difference from an original state of spatiality. Novels such as Harry H. Frank’s Alas, Babylon, Cormac McCar..
The dysphoric fall into alcoholism
ABSTRACT. While writing On the Road, Jack Kerouac was already deep into Beat subculture, with its outstanding markers: dark glasses, berets, goatees, bebop jazz and drug use. His drug of choice was Benzedrine, which helped fuel his creativity to such an extent that this testament of the Beat movemen..
On inclusiveness, diversity and cultural environment. Case-study: the Romanian school system
ABSTRACT. The idea of this paper emerged out of an awareness that students with special educational needs are sometimes completely ignored in the Romanian mainstream school system. They are enrolled in mainstream schools that are not prepared to deal with their unique difficulties. My experience as ..
Academic art. The balance of objective beauty in the modern mirror
ABSTRACT. Ironically, academic art lacks a dogmatic academic definition. It is not because it too vague of a term, but, being applied to the arts, it is knowledge accumulated and transmitted mostly through word-of-mouth, practice and, above everything else, through the works of the masters that serv..
Chords of Inner Ecology. Case study in church music – 80th–90th century, Secu Monastery
ABSTRACT The study wishes to emphasize the interference between two musical cultures in the divine cult from the Romanian Orthodoxy, which differ in form, but are essentially the same. We refer to the Romanian Orthodox church music in neumatic (Byzantine) notation and the Slavonic one, in linear not..