ON POSSIBILITY AND REALITY – ONE (NON)ARISTOTELIAN READING OF E-BOOKS

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The problem of books and reading is being analyzed in the light of changed paradigms of reading and anthropological consequences of new media. Relationship of classical to virtual/electronic is being viewed from the standpoint of Aristotle’s onthological difference between reality and possibility. Prospects and difficulties of e-literature as a literature of possibilities, as well as consequences of dematerialization are beeing examined. By problematizing the term “virtual” and its entities, the author speaks of “new reader’s” fate in the new virtual world.

READING AND LOVE – (RE)CONSTRUCTION OF A MEMORY

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The article examines validity of the analogy between the two empires of Imaginary: reading and love. Through analysis of a memory, two discourses are compared on personal and general levels by showing characteristic moments. Reading and love are observed as exceptional cases of „misreading/misunderstanding“, with common root in the Desire and deficiency. In a changing world possible changes in the experience of love and reading in the „new readers“ and a general importance of this analogy in the human world as the world of metaphor, are examined.

SOCIAL DEPENDENCE OF CULTURAL NEEDS

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V. MIKECIN: MARXIANS AND MARX

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THE FIRST ISSUE OF “POGLED”

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SOCIALISM AND CULTURE

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MUSIC INDUSTRY

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ETHICS OF THE NARRATIVE OF REMEMBERANCE AND TESTIMONY: BALKAN WAR IN CINEMA

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The concern of this paper is twofold. First, it outlines the ethics of cinema as media as argued by the theories of André Bazin, Barthes, Ranciere, Shoshanna Feldman and Dori Laub. Second, it analysis the texts chosen as the case studies – Harrison’s Flowers, The Fourth Man, The Hunting Party and Storm – that include the narratives of remembrance, witnessing and testimony. Beside offering examples of the ethical work of cinema through the moments of testimony/witnessing, evocation of the recent past they answer the questions of the guilt, responsibility, reconciliation, forgiveness or true nature of the recent Balkan wars.

LOGICS OF FREEDOM AND DESTRUCTION

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THE CROSSROADS OF INTERCULTURALISM

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