Alex Ciorogar
Dr. Alex CIOROGAR has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and is a Lecturer with the English Department (Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania). He is also the director of “Echinox” magazine and the founder of OMG Publishing.
Having published more than 100 essays and book reviews, his work deals with authorship theories, metamodernism, posthumanism, and World Literature Studies. He edited and co-edited four books, including “Postumanismul”, Tracus Arte, Bucharest, 2019 and, together with Alex. Cistelecan, “Ce mai rămâne din Mai 68”, Fractalia, Bucharest, 2018.
He has also signed chapters in collective volumes, among which: “Beyond Print and Invisibility: Translatorship in the Age of Digital Globalization”, in M. Sass, Ș. Baghiu, V. Pojoga (eds.), The Culture of Translation in Romania, Berlin, Peter Lang, 2018; “From Somaesthetics to the Stylistics of Existence: Styles of Reading, Ways of Living”, in Anna Budziak, Katarzyna Lisowska and Jarosław Woźniak (eds.), Literature, Performance, and Somaesthetics: Studies in Agency and Embodiment, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2017, and “The Ecological World-System of Posthuman Cosmopolitanism and Contemporary Romanian Poetry”, in Alex Goldiș and Mihaela Ursa (eds.), Romanian Literary Networks Outside National Framings: A Case Study for Peripheralized Cosmopolitanisms, Berlin: Peter Lang, 2024.
He has published articles in journals like The Comparatist and French Bulletin Studies. A recipient of a COST Grant and a Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant, he has also worked with Professor Stephen Shapiro (The University of Warwick) as a Fernandes Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) in the UK.
He is currently working on several book projects: The Ascension of the Author in the Age of Digital Globalization. This describes a reading of the bridge between the death and return of the author debate, while simultaneously supplementing cultural studies with a materialistic and ecological perspective on authorial ascension.
The second project is tentatively called Authorial Ecologies - this argues for the entanglement of different disciplines, theories, and practices in the contemporary moment that is distinguished by neoliberalism, globalization, and posthumanization.
Other background projects include a selection of essays and reviews on Metamodern Poetry in Romania (an examination of the production of postmillennial lyric production).
Having published more than 100 essays and book reviews, his work deals with authorship theories, metamodernism, posthumanism, and World Literature Studies. He edited and co-edited four books, including “Postumanismul”, Tracus Arte, Bucharest, 2019 and, together with Alex. Cistelecan, “Ce mai rămâne din Mai 68”, Fractalia, Bucharest, 2018.
He has also signed chapters in collective volumes, among which: “Beyond Print and Invisibility: Translatorship in the Age of Digital Globalization”, in M. Sass, Ș. Baghiu, V. Pojoga (eds.), The Culture of Translation in Romania, Berlin, Peter Lang, 2018; “From Somaesthetics to the Stylistics of Existence: Styles of Reading, Ways of Living”, in Anna Budziak, Katarzyna Lisowska and Jarosław Woźniak (eds.), Literature, Performance, and Somaesthetics: Studies in Agency and Embodiment, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2017, and “The Ecological World-System of Posthuman Cosmopolitanism and Contemporary Romanian Poetry”, in Alex Goldiș and Mihaela Ursa (eds.), Romanian Literary Networks Outside National Framings: A Case Study for Peripheralized Cosmopolitanisms, Berlin: Peter Lang, 2024.
He has published articles in journals like The Comparatist and French Bulletin Studies. A recipient of a COST Grant and a Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant, he has also worked with Professor Stephen Shapiro (The University of Warwick) as a Fernandes Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) in the UK.
He is currently working on several book projects: The Ascension of the Author in the Age of Digital Globalization. This describes a reading of the bridge between the death and return of the author debate, while simultaneously supplementing cultural studies with a materialistic and ecological perspective on authorial ascension.
The second project is tentatively called Authorial Ecologies - this argues for the entanglement of different disciplines, theories, and practices in the contemporary moment that is distinguished by neoliberalism, globalization, and posthumanization.
Other background projects include a selection of essays and reviews on Metamodern Poetry in Romania (an examination of the production of postmillennial lyric production).
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human and non- human actors within the literary sphere might finally emerge. The chapter further proposes an ecological definition of material relations, advocating for a metacritical approach that aims to deconstruct the prevailing assumptions of a friction- free, universal cosmopolitanism and the persistent inequalities perpetuated by the neoliberal capitalist system. Ultimately, the author wishes to contribute to the broader goal of
reshaping cosmopolitanism by integrating semiperipheries (WReC 2015) and paving the way for a transdisciplinary reconceptualization of human and nonhuman agency in an increasingly interconnected, yet uneven world.
production and uneven distribution of authoriality in the global literary field. Its title is therefore
intentionally duple in its ambiguity: the pursuit of authorship will be shown, simultaneously, as the
action of pursuing something as a career (the writer who wishes to become a professional author,
for instance, by writing and publishing a text or what I will call the author’s work) and, in parallel, as
an activity of a specified and specialized kind (the entire range of elements and processes involved
in the social production of authorship or what will be defined as the work of authorship). To this end,
the function of world-authorship and its emergent model of ascension will be both situated within
the neoliberal regime of capitalist production and the sphere of world literary studies by pursuing the
contours and implications of a materialist, posthuman, and ecological approach, while also hinting at its
value and processes indexed in terms of forms, figures, functions, and forces. Finally, then, understood
within the post-theoretical conjuncture unfolding today, post-authorship will be defined as both a
commodity and a world-apparatus.
literară a ultimilor 30 de ani reprezintă un efect de recul,
o reacţie, să zicem, atât faţă de mai vechile abstracţiuni
ale Noii Critici franceze, cât şi faţă de teroarea mai noilor
Studii Culturale. Nefiind, cu toate acestea, singurul cotlon
de defulare a „traumelor” intelectual-literare, adunate
pe parcursul celei de-a doua jumătăţi a secolului XX,
biografismul reprezintă azi varianta post-umană a (re)
normalizării studiilor literare.
de a cartografia „stadiul actual” conduce, de cele mai
multe ori, la o altă dificultate, și anume la incapacitatea
experților de a conștientiza că nu există nicio disciplină,
teorie ori metodologie care să fi fost inventată
peste noapte. E un fallacy care tinde să privilegieze
contemporaneitatea în defavoarea tradiției. Observația e
și mai relevantă dacă realizăm că problema rezidă în lipsa
de comunicare a comunității științifice. Chiar dacă nu ne
place să recunoaștem, munca de cercetare a fost mereu
colaborativă, mai ales în spațiul umanioarelor. Singura
diferența ar fi că lucrurile sunt mult mai transparente azi.
mileniu, critica literar-culturală are
de înfruntat o problemă spinoasă și
– se pare – extrem de productivă: cea
a renașterii megaromanului. Într-un
„acum” în care volumul și calitatea
nu (mai) fac casă bună împreună,
reîntoarcerea cărților corpolente –
folosite mai degrabă pe post de opritoare
și mai puțin pentru lectură – reprezintă,
trebuie s-o recunoaștem, un fenomen
cel puțin bizar. De investigat agenda
marilor edituri ce promovează în mod
agresiv asemenea dihănii narative,
oferind, de pildă, două milioane de
dolari unui debutant precum Garth
Risk Hallberg și romanului său, City on
Fire (Orașul în flăcări).
stofă de autobiografie, poezia lui Andrei
Bodiu se desfășoară, așadar, întocmai
transcrierii unui nesfârșit dialog cu
prietenii lui (imaginari sau nu – „Virgil,
Ciprian, Dudu și cu mine”, „Eu cu
Mihai Ignat discutând despre Thomas
Wolfe în anticiariat”, „Devoratorul și
Fumătorul”).
V. Leac a reușit să se reinventeze
odată cu apariția fiecărui nou
volum. Cariera lui e consecventă, ca
să zic așa, doar prin inconsecvență
poetică. Pentru autorul arădean, o
nouă carte însemna, dacă vreți,
un nou debut editorial. Lucrurile
nu s-au schimbat nici măcar acum.
Aici mai trebuie adăugat însă faptul
că reconfigurările presupuneau, fără
excepție, și o oarecare evoluție stilistică.
între aceste două coordonate, fiind receptată, nu o dată, atât ca o
prelungire a postmodernismului, dar și ca o reală exemplificare a reţetei
anarhiste.