The perestroika announced by Gorbachev and the – also opaque meaning – change by Obama although designed to solve problems of very different societies and economies but still have parallel features. Both can be associated with forced reforms: with an obvious result concerning perestroika but with hardly a beginning of Obama's change.
Category Archives: Periodical
Systemic change in the theatre
According to the article launching our new column the systemic change in Hungary made a historic turn-point changing the character of theatre life. It appeared as the object of aesthetics but also as an aspect of the structured complexity of theatre and society.
Capital or What You do not Want
On the Hungarian version of István Mészáros: Beyond Capital: Toward a theory of Transition New York, Monthly Review Press 2000
Castrated History – Symptoms of Weimarization in the Baltic States
The Anti-Soviet Resistance in the Baltic States. Vilnius, Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania, 2006
On the Difference of Amending or Surpassing a System
All of our actions characterises not only us but also the role we play in the social system we are living in. Our private actions – whether wanted or unwanted – also fulfil a social function regardless that we are aware of it or not or we intended it or not. The article analyses the attempts to undertake or suspend different social roles.