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Hags. The Demonization of Middle Aged Women

Maria Cernat
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Review of Victoria Smith’s book Victoria Smith has recently published a book with a very suggestive title: Hags: The Demonisation of Middle Aged Women. Deconstructing the old age of women, the author suggests we resist...

From wild dingo children to the cannibal generation: the history of the disappearing East

The novel Sălbaticii Copii Dingo (The Wild Dingo Children, Polirom 2021) by Vasile Ernu was awarded the Observator Cultural 2022 prize for the best book in the memoir category. This text is a longer form of the award speech....

Don’t look up! – a cheap political satire or a brilliant mockumentary? – part 2

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
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The end of 2021 was marked by vivid discussions around political satire. Whether you liked it or not, Don’t look up! is one of the most debated movies of all time. However, is this truly...

Don’t look up! – a cheap political satire or a brilliant mockumentary?

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
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The end of 2021 was marked by vivid discussions around political satire. Whether you liked it or not, Don’t look up! is one of the most debated movies of all time. However, is this truly...

The marketing genius behind “Don’t look up”

Maria Cernat
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It's been a long time since I've seen a debate that brought so many people together while also causing divisions in various groups. Everyone seems to be shouting "don't look up!" on social media. The...

Political theater outperforms political activism? w/ David Schwartz

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
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This time, The Barricade's hosts sat down with David Schwartz, a Romanian theater director and, in some ways, political activist. His art is meant to motivate people to take political action and to instill hope...

Reading Žižek in Tehran

Vladimir Mitev
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In a world of capital words easily become cliche-ridden and therefore devoid of power to change anything. Whom should we rely on to challenge the status-quo? Kamran Baradaran - an Iranian translator of Slavoj Žižek,...

Socialist realism! Let’s be serious about it w/ Jérôme Bazin

Frank Myonk - Maria Cernat
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More than 30 years have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Anti-communism became a religion, and we were strongly discouraged from discussing anything related to the period prior to 1989, including the art...

Iran in the mirror of its movies

Vladimir Mitev
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The Iranian movies were probably the most attractive feature at the online Middle Eastern and North African Region Film Festival (“MENAR”), which took place in Bulgaria between 15 January and 7 February 2021. Iranian cinema...

Lora Nenkovska: The Romanian Sofia Nădejde Awards are very much needed because women’s liter..

Vladimir Mitev
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Lora Nenkovska is a lecturer on Romanian language and literature at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski". She has translated into Bulgarian authors such as Matei Vişniec, Petru Cimpoeşu, Mircea Eliade, Dan Lungu, Claudiu Komartin, Elena...