"The World by Chance". On Lucretius and Spinoza

2015

In this article I introduce the concept of psychopathological field to move from an individualistic psychopathology towards a radically relational one. I have sought to describe the concept by tracing its roots, which lie deep in Gestalt psychology, in Gestalt therapy and in phenomenology – in its classical and neo-phenomenological formulations and in its derivations in psychopathology and psychiatry. From this perspective, the psychopathological field is the field of experience that is actualised in the therapeutic encounter, bringing into play at the contact-boundary the absence which it conveys. To grasp the actualisation of the field and its movements, the therapist must develop an aesthetic sensibility, which is what enables him to become attuned to the root of the experience, where the psychopathological field emerges as an atmospheric presence, a perceptive prius, before distinct subjects and objects emerge. In this way the therapist perceives how the intentionalities for con...

Inventory, offerings and rituals in the pre-Christian temples and sacred places of continental Europe and Mediterranean area (7th c. BC-2nd c. AD), V. Sîrbu and A. Peţan (eds), Alun, 2023

The south-eastern part of Poland is the terrain where the northern part of the Carpathian Mountains is situated. The main river in the region is the San, a tributary of the Vistula. Metal hoards in this area have been known since the Bronze Age. The article is focused on deposits discovered in Sanok-Biała Góra, Międzybrodzie and Pakoszówka. The hoard from Biała Góra contains 380 items made of bronze and iron. There were numerous fittings: shield-shape and oblong, volutes similar to the Salta-Leone type, a pendant, a ring and a few dozen iron objects, mostly preserved in fragments. The Międzybrodzie hoard included five curved knife blades, two straight-bladed knives and a horse bit. Two hoards of iron objects and fragments of bronze anklets made of hollow hemispheres were found in Pakoszówka. The hoard I consisted of a scythe, an intentionally fragmented knife, two adzes, a plough share and an axe, while in the hoard II contained four large sickle-shaped knives, fragments of a scythe, two chisels, three bridles and a pin with an eye. The “transcarpathian” character of the Międzybrodzie hoard is rather unquestionable, on the other hand the Pakoszówka deposits find analogies in significant areas occupied by the La Tène culture. Similar items can be found from Switzerland and Germany to Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, and the Transcarpathian Ukraine. The interpretation of hoards of iron tools remains the subject of polemics.

2010

Popular Music, 2022

In recent years, rap music has been growing rapidly within the Greek cultural landscape. This paper places emphasis on a particular politicised current within the genre, examining closely two recent examples from the Greek context. Although such performances have already been broadly discussed as 'populist' within public debate, this paper aims at rigorously assessing this claim. To do so, it first turns to contemporary populism research in order to articulate a consistent and operational approach that can be utilised in the analysis of rap performances. Against the background of a minimal definitional consensus highlighting populism's people-centrism and anti-elitism, this contribution will then focus on (a) the performative dimension of populism and its occasional extra-political conditioning and (b) populist performances within popular music, namely rap. Could one designate rap music as a locus of populist performance(s)? How could such a hypothesis be substantiated through the analysis of concrete examples from the contemporary Greek scene?