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Diane Schoemperlen
In the text Closely examination of the men’s body Diane
Schoemperlen in a witty and often ironic way “reads” the men
anatomy. This is interesting scientistic and lyrical text about the
men’s’ body.
Shoshana Felman
The text Women and Madness is from Shoshana Felman’s most
influential work of literary theory and criticism, Writing and
Madness. Exploring the relations between literature, philosophy, and
psychoanalysis through brilliant studies of Balzac, Nerval,
Flaubert, and James, as well as Lacan, Foucault, and Derrida, Felman
seeks the specificity of literature in its relation to what culture
excludes under the label “madness”. Why and how do literary writers
reclaim the discourse of the madman, and how does this reclaiming
reveal something essential about the relation between literature and
power, as well as between literature and knowledge?
Every literary text continues to communicate with madness - with
what has been excluded, decreed abnormal, unacceptable, or senseless
- by dramatizing a dynamically revitalized relation between sense
and nonsense, reason and unreason, the readable and the unreadable.
This revelation of the irreducibility of the relation between the
readable and the unreadable constitutes what the author calls - the
literary thing.
Shoshana Felman is Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of French and
Comparative Literature at Yale University. Her books include
Literature and Psychoanalysis, Testimony, and (most recently) The
Juridical Unconscious: Trials and Traumas in the Twentieth Century.
Her book The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J. L.
Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages, is being reissued in a new
edition by Stanford University Press, with a Foreword by Stanley
Cavell and an Afterword by Judith Butler.
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood was born 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in Quebec
and Toronto. In hers stories she describes the inner world of hidden
places and all that emerges from them - the intimately personal, the
fantastic, the shockingly real...whether it’s what lives in a
mysterious locked room or the secret feelings we all conceal. In
this dramatic and far-ranging prose, Margaret Atwood proves why she
is a true master of the genre. The short story Sunrise is from the
collection The spring song of the frogs.
Ivan Blazev
Ivan Blazev was born in 1974 in Skopje. He is graduated film
director at the Brookline College in New York. He works as a
photographer and director. He has realized several short features
films and documentaries. In 2004, he published the first book with
photographs - Sparks, initiatives for a safe school. He works as a
photography teacher in the high school NOVA - Skopje. On 27.09.2005
in the cultural centar Tocka Ivan Blazev, one of the most talented
Macedonian photographers opened his exhibition of 25 photos.
“The Archeology of the Other always opens the gate towards the
visibility of the Self. The haystacks laid on the plows of the Self
always peers through the furrows of the Other. And every man and
woman, consciously or not, is in a permanent quest for the
parameters, which could be a possible road sign about the
reflections which illuminates us in relation to the Others. One such
parameter is the photographic concept of Ivan Blažev, who, leading
us through the world of one of the most subtle intimate categories,
gives us a chance to better see ourselves as someone else. (...)
What is exciting and what activates all the senses in the “politics”
of Blazev photographic “friendships” is the complexity and
polyvalence: behind the images identical on the photographed object
there are other images, settled in the memories and in the
photographer anticipations. All these layers rush in more or less
familiar or unfamiliar directions, feeding with the trembling of the
relation author – friend – identity – Self – Other – objective –
subject – object. So, Blazev story gets the miraculous power of life
who settles, divides into layers, constructs and deconstructs, as a
mighty entity which relativizes the photographically fixed
categories of time and space. Simply it leaves trace of lasting. And
we, as recipients, are caught in a net of reflections,
self-reflections and illuminations, of experienced, interpreted and
still unacknowledged faces.”
Ivan Dodovski
The short stories from Ivan Dodovski are exploration of human
existence in one critical time at the concrete space. In his prose,
the past times are being perceived through the prism of the present
moment. Often the time of transition is crossing point of the hopes
of revolution, the disappointments of 48’, the live and survival in
the age of socialism. In this stories parade the set of characters,
which are described in grotesque manner. Dodovski’s prose is
constructed by the skilled use of language, with very rich
vocabulary and virtuous vibration of the sentence’s rhythm. His
stories has important place in the contemporary trends of Macedonian
prose.
Boban Whodoesnotexist
Boban Whodoesnotexist is young Macedonian writer who is
interested in baroque games with the language, experimentation with
the narration and combination of the texts and its visual
representation. He is obsessed with the writing as a game, writing
because the own writing, writing which aim is the same process of
writing.
The rights of animals
In this issue, we are focused on animals. We are interested for
the rights of animals as bioethical, historic, and civilization
problem, which will be entwined with the destiny of the whole
humankind.
Even on a low, political stage, the rights of animal are becoming
important part of the agenda of different parliaments from whole
world. European Union, for instance, has very developed law
regulation with which the rights of wild animal, pets animals as
well as the animal we are eating, are rigorous protected.
In this number, we publish text for Peter Singer, probably one of
the most important supporters of the rights of the animals, but we
do not publish his own texts. Therefore, the deepening of the topic
follows. In this issue we only publish the texts, which are supposed
to incentive the primary interest to the readers for which this
topic is new.
Dino Buzzati
Buzzatti’s terrifying, often self referential surreal tales of
disappointed human expectation and the futility of most human hope
strike an uncomfortable chord in all but the dullest reader. In the
tradition of Beckett or Kafka, Buzzatti employs the fantastic in the
service of philosophy. Buzzati was a journalist and so he writes
very succinct sentences which have a matter of fact feel to them.
His stories are quite often no more than 4-5 pages long and even
though his stories often veer into the uncharted terrain of human
desire and fantasy you feel like you are reading a newspaper article
and so the events and the characters actions seem perfectly
plausible, perfectly within the realm of the possible, even
ordinary. And that is Buzzati’s style: to make the extraordinary
sound ordinary. Buzzati uses fantasy to allow his characters a bit
of release from the everday world.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida’s name has probably been mentioned more frequently in
books, journals, lectures, and common-room conversations during the
last 30 years than that of any other living thinker. Deconstruction,
the word he transformed from a rare French term to a common
expression in many languages, became part of the vocabulary not only
of philosophers and literary theorists but also of architects,
theologians, artists, political theorists, educationists, music
critics, filmmakers, lawyers and historians. If he is remembered in
future centuries, it is likely to be for contributions to our
understanding of language, meaning, identity, ethical decisions and
aesthetic values.
Though Jacques Derrida was perhaps France’s best-known living
philosopher, his presence has always been disturbing-even to French
philosophers. He not only blurs the boundaries between literature
and philosophy and unveils the ambiguous metaphors that thinkers
from Plato to Heidegger had assumed to lie down as basic concepts,
but his reading of these metaphors claims to find in Western
philosophy a crypto- theology. His analyses regularly uncover
presuppositions about foundations and primacies, points of origin
and authoritative presences that correspond to nothing other than a
Supreme Being, however veiled or unapproachable.
Andy Riley
Andy Riley is a British author and scriptwriter. Writing
alongside Kevin Cecil (with whom he has been friends since attending
Aylesbury Grammar School) he is most notable for writing the Comic
Relief one-off special Robbie the Reindeer, for which he and Cecil
won a BAFTA in 2000. He has also written for Black Books, Trigger
Happy TV, So Graham Norton, Smack the Pony and Spitting Image and in
radio for The 99p Challenge. He has written two best-selling books,
The Book of Bunny Suicides and Return of the Bunny Suicides. Riley
currently has a weekly comic strip in The Observer Magazine.
Andro Wekua
Andro Wekua was born 1977 in Sochumi, Georgia, now lives in
Zurich. In Wekua’s images, we can find a mix of now and before,
closeness and distance, and the encounter of brutality and pop. The
references to his native country Georgia and the violence
experienced there are explicit. The artist was forced to leave his
country during the civil war following the breakup of the USSR which
transformed the land from a Soviet holiday paradise into a field of
political contention, and came to Switzerland to study art. Now,
some years later, he tries to uncover an archeology of emotions and
memories, but also of idealistic projections of his origins. He
employs a mix of different techniques (so as painting, drawing,
collage, sculpture, installation) to build up a world of images that
through its richness of visual detail and surprising aesthetics
cannot leave the spectator indifferent. The fear of and desire for a
place that everybody tries to reach and where everybody would like
to be. His pictures evoke emotions, rare goods in the present world
of visual arts.
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