Corporate architecture in the European space

Author(s): Alexandra Dana Marasescu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2014

Corporatism is a doctrine originally from 19th century which was formed initially as a reaction to the competition and class conflict of capitalist society. Now the practice of corporate business has a clear focus not only on providing a successfully and solid foundation for the future but also on the building in which all of this is possible. The contemporary concept of sustainability is based on an ecological design and the main goal is to ensure that our present actions and decisions do not inhibit the opportunities of future other generations.

Italian Modern architecture-an European Echo in Romanian architecture

Author(s): Matei Luca Stoian / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2014

The interwar period was characterized by a complex atmosphere, in which two major architectural trends prevailed, the trend of avant-garde and the one of return to order. In the Italian world, a significantly modernist approached contributed through its futurism, to the universal modern culture, architecture played a major role, as a unique mythical expression of eternity.The Italian world found a mostly consistent response to the call of the futurist and Italian Movement for Rational Architecture. Following this demand genuine young architects undertook enthusiastically these new conditions and provides Italy with a challenging arcitecture as a state art.

Stalinizm za podwójną gardą

Author(s): Marek Hendrykowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 02/2014

The article is devoted to the poetics of socialist realism in cinema in the specific context of popular culture. From this point of view author examines two unknown Polish full-length documentary films (made in 1953 and 1955) abandoned in the Stalinist period and recently rediscovered in the National Film Archive in Warsaw. The common subject of both of them is boxing. Marek Hendrykowski describes the political limitations and ideological taboos of the early 1950s cinema in Poland and discusses various aspects, dimensions and meanings of those two films by proposing a new reading of them.

"... im Lichte der Beschlüsse des XXV. Parteitages der KPdSU"

Author(s): Alexander Steininger / Language(s): German Issue: 10/1976

Annotations to the 6th Writers' Congress of the Soviet Union

"A barátság szelleme" Szabó István levelei könyvtáros barátaihoz (Közzéteszi Fogarassy Miklós)

Author(s): Miklós Fogarassy,István Szabó / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 07/2008

"A Duna legszebb városa"

Author(s): François Fejtö / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/1993

"A rózsa révén szeretetünk bizonyítékát adjuk egy másik embernek" (Kérdezett Ferencz Zsolt)

Author(s): István Wagner / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 01/2010

István Wagner is a specialist rose grower from Kolozsvár (Romanian: Cluj-Napoca) who created about forty new species of roses, and currently holds the vice-presidency of the World Federation of Rose Societies. In this interview realized by journalist Zsolt Ferenc, he talks about his personal and professional relationship with the rose, "the botanical unit most often used by people during their lives to express their joy and love toward others".

"A TERRIBLE STRUCTURALIST WISDOM": HOW LANGUAGE AFFECTS THE IDENTITY OF AN EMIGRANT. CASE STUDY BASED ON THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY "LOST IN TRANSLATION" BY EV

Author(s): Agata Szepe / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2013

This essay is a case study about linguistic mechanisms that affect an emigranfs life. The research is based on the autobiography Lost in Translation by the Polish emigrant Eva Hoffman, analyzed with the use of theories of the stractural linguistic school. According to the research, some linguistic rules influence her life very deeply. She communicates poorly because the expression of new language corresponds with different content from the native language, creating another form. Eva starts to treat daily communication like a written text, in the meaning used by Roland Barthes, which results in alienation. However, some linguistic principles such as the arbitrary naturę ofa sign or inseparability of signifiant and signifie do not affect her at all. She deepens her understanding of both her mother tongue and the new one by linguistic terms such as translation describ-ing, defining and finding synonyms and tries to find her own identities using expressions such as /, you, here, near, and far, belonging to linguistic universals. Her identity is an identity-in-progress because she replaces her old home with a new center ofthe world. The old home remains a heterotopia while an emigrant changes her onceptions connected with the words here, there, near, and far.

"A test a Testnek otthona"

Author(s): Villő Hanga Jakab / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 07/2011

Critical analasys of the body image present in contemporary Hungarian poet Szilárd Borbély's poems.

"A tornado flew around my room before you came" – black queer studies i queerowanie czarnej męskości

Author(s): Grzegorz Stępniak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2012

Starting off with Frank Ocean’s coming out story, author shows the limits of identity politics discourse. Referring to Siobhan B. Somerville’s theories, he discusses complicated intersections between race and sexuality and offers a brief history of their meaning. Grounding his argument in the methodology gathered under the umbrella term of „black queer studies”, Stępniak presents E. Patrick Johnson’s theory about appropriating blackness. Uncovering heteronormative ideology standing behind the production of the „authentic blackness” discourse, he goes on to criticize the notions of patriarchal black masculinity. To illustrate his point, instead of reading „against the grain” of some straight cultural representations of black men, Stępniak offers an insight into two performance pieces by Afro-American homosexual theatre group, Pomo Afro Homos, and tries to show the process of performing black gay masculinity. He avoids essentialist stances though by insisting on the performative nature of the group’s work.

"A workplace remains empty today." A New Ideology of Death and Funeral Ritualism during the State Socialism in Bulgaria (1950s-1970s)

Author(s): Anastasija Pashova / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2013

The author deals with the processes of the ideologization of the traditional Christian rituals by the totalitarian communist state. Scenarios for new funeral rituals were design to overcome the “remains of the past” and the “reactionary influence” of religion. In the new ideology, a person did not have any other value except as "a laborer" and "a reproductive unit". Of course what was considered most valuable, was his/her loyalty to the Party and the socialist state. Nevertheless of the Party control and suppression the new rituals did not play the task they were meant for – to affirm new concepts of death and life.

"Andral" гостува в Монтана. Разговор на чашка кафе

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 24/2002

"Anticomunisti erau foarte multi, dar democrati foarte putini" (un interviu de Alexandru Al. Sahighian)

Author(s): Ion Solacolu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 52/2005

Ion Solacolu, who emigrated in 1977 to Germany, has been the editor in chief of “Dialog”, a review edited by the Democratic Circle of the Romanians Living in Germany. This interview sketches a portrait of this consistently democratic review and of its editor.

"Az idő szorgos mértéke"

Author(s): Áron Fittler / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 03/2012

Review essay of the novel entitled "Színek és évek" (Colours and Years) by Hungarian writer Margit Kaffka.

"Beograd je svet" autora Slaviše Savića

Author(s): Anonymous Anonymous / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 426-427/2008

"Bitschi" - Nichtseßhafte in der Sowjetunion

Author(s): Wolf Oschlies / Language(s): German Issue: 10/1979

"Chaltura" - ein sozial-ökonomisches Phänomen

Author(s): P. Osten,F. Kantowski / Language(s): German Issue: 02/1974

What is usually meant by khaltura in the USSR today, is overtime work of all kinds as well as illegal activities of Soviet citizens for the purpose of gaining additional income or of acquiring (illegally) scarce goods and services. The activities which are frequently found and discussed in the country, are all outside the planning framework; they differ in form and method, depending on the type of business and the position of the khalturshchik. The authors offer examples for khaltura in various fields of Soviet economy; they also examine the main reasons for the phenomenon and its economic and social effects.

"Chaltura" und "Schabaschniki" in Moskauer Neubauwohnungen

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): German Issue: 02-Archiv/1974

"Chişinăul: Oraşul morţilor infatuaţi şi al profeţilor"

Author(s): Dan Ţăranu Vatra / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 05/2000

Interview with the Moldavian writer Ghenadie Postolache.

"Christliche" Geschäfte: Moral und Kommerz in slowakischen Dörfern

Author(s): Zuzana Sekeráková Búriková / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2004

This article is concerned with commerce and Christianity. The particular focus of my case study is the sociability of shops in one Roman Catholic village in northern Slovakia. I will use ethnographic examples of deferred payments, opening hours of shops and the social life around shops to explore how Christianity intersects with the everyday practice of shopping. I will argue that through the sociability of the village stores, and particular practices of retail trade, the social and moral values of the community are objectified.