„Caietele Echinox”, Volume 49, 2025: From Robots to AI. Techno-sciences vs. Literature and Arts. Pozitivism vs. Humanism
7 Maria Barbu & Marius Conkan, Introduction
Speculative Worlds: Science-Fiction, Cyberpunk and Intermedial Aesthetics
15 Ștefan Firică, Cyberpunk, “Feelosophy”, and Politics. Tatyana Tolstaya, Victor Pelevin, and Vladimir Sorokin’s Fiction, between Postmodernism and Metamodernism
33 Camelia Dinu, The Algorithm as Author: Viktor Pelevin and Russian Post-Cyberpunk Aesthetics
55 Monica Alina Toma, Cities on Wheels and Other Mechanized Fantasies. The Wondrous Steampunk World of the Film Mortal Engines (2018)
66 Maria Barbu & Marius Conkan, Posthumanist Novum and Cognitive Estrangement in Philip Reeve’s Railhead Trilogy
79 Mihai Dacin, Convergent Evolution: An Intermedial Approach to Worldbuilding in Videogames and Narrative Fiction
Dystopian Narratives: Immortality, Simulation, and the Posthuman Imagination
99 Corin Braga, Immortality as a Dystopian Counter-Ideal
109 Luca Mătăsaru, Revolt Against the Modern Utopia: The Threat of Collectivism in Three Early 20th Century Technological Dystopias
124 Angelo-Nicolae Mitchievici, The Simulacrum in the Age of AI: What Do Androids Feel? From Philip K. Dick to Ridley Scott
136 Iren Boyarkina, Posthumanism and Transhumanism in Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
From Thought to Code: Human Consciousness and the Poetics of the Artificial
151 Carmen Borbély, “The Brain of a Man is the Globe of the Earth”: On Cavendish and the Melancholy of Mattered Thought
167 Alice Popescu, Several Considerations on Irrationality, Technology, and Literature
183 Catrinel Popa, The Art of Forgetting: On Memory, Imagination, and Emotion in the Age of Posthumanism
196 Nicolae Bobaru, Synthetic Worlds and the Sovereign Code: Robotic Consciousness and the Crisis of Posthuman Value
Technological Hybris: Cyborgs and Trans/Post-humanist Ethics
217 Mădălina Ionescu, Oedipus and the Crisis of Humanism
231 Iulia Andreea Milică, Hubris or Salvation? The Dangers and Lures of Biotechnology in Rappaccini’s Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
250 Alexandra Vrânceanu Pagliardini, Le mythe de Prométhée dans un contexte post-humaniste
258 Mohamed-Sami Alloun, The Posthuman: Literary Usages and Embryonic Forms
274 Maria Ioana Oancea, Frankenstein or Pygmalion? Literary Tradition and the Reception of Artificial Intelligence
292 Alina Bako, Literary Bioengineerings in the Novel: The Romanian Robot
306 Carina Iulia Chereji, Distances: Human to Inhuman, Familiar to Unfamiliar. A Study of Vonnegut’s War Short Stories
323 Ana-Maria Ștefan, Cyborgs Write Back with an Accent: Stories and Storytelling in Nnedi Okorafor’s Death of the Author
AI and the Limits of Representation: Philosophical Reflections on Technology and the Human
345 Caius Dobrescu, Mimesis versus Mimesis: A Pseudo-Kantian Meditation on the Limits of Artificial Intelligence
356 Laura T. Ilea, Algorithms, Necropolitics, and the Ethics of the Passerby. With Achille Mbembe after the Exit from Democracy
370 Alina Buzatu, Symbolic Palliatives or Biotechnological Interventions? Responses to Illness, Pain, and Suflering
384 Călina Părău, AI and the Ethics of Reading: Communicating Diflerence in the Age of Connectivity
AI Across Domains: Cultural Inquiries and Creative Reconfigurations
401 Iulian Boldea, Artificial Intelligence Beyond Borders
409 Ruxandra Cesereanu, 2024 & 2025 Debates on the Increased Use of AI. Problematizations, Dilemmas, Polemics, Rivalries, Risks
416 Tudor Budușanu, Generative AI: Generating Black Holes of Ethics, Reality and Culture
427 Maria-Carina Lechințan, Education in the Context of Digitalization and AI. An Overview of Key Moments and Eflects
436 Petre Nicolescu, Human-AI Creative Symbiosis. Redefining the Artist in Contemporary Visual Art
450 Ioana-Alexandra Pavăl, The “Charismatic Illusion” and the Profile of the Social Media Viewer
465 Library Survey
- Aurelian Crăiuțu, Elogiul moderației, București, Spandugino, 2022
- Julia Urabayen, Jorge León Casero (eds.), Post-Apocalyptic Cultures: New Political Imaginaries After the Collapse of Modernity, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
481 Book Reviews
- Ionel Bușe, Gânduri despre Constantin Noica și alte eseuri, București, Paideia, 2024
- Florin Chivoci, Schițe pentru un imaginar al etnogenezei, Târgoviște, Editura Bibliotheca, 2024
- Lucia Cifor, Teoria literaturii în contextul epistemologic actual, Iași, Editura Universității Alexandru Ioan Cuza, 2022
- Louise Radinger Field, Women and Home in Cinema: Form, Feeling, Practice, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
- Mircea Flonta, Fascinația absolutului: Filozofia speculativă în viziunea lui Lucian Blaga și Constantin Noica, București, Humanitas, 2024
- Graphè, vol. 30, Jean-Marc Vercruysse (éd.), Les tentations du Christ, Artois Presses Université, 2022
- Lori Jo Marso, Feminism and the Cinema of Experience, Durham/ London, Duke University Press, 2024
- Mosaic. An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal, Vol. 55, No. 1,
- Shepherd Steiner, Realtive Time/ Little Time Proceedings, March 2022
- Virginia Pignagnoli, Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts, Columbus, Ohio State University Press, 2023
- David Roberts, Andrew Milner, Peter Murphy, Science Fiction and Narrative Form, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2023
- Robert T. Tally Jr., The Fiction of Dread: Dystopia, Monstrosity, and Apocalypse, New York, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024
- Lisa Zunshine, The Secret Life of Literature, Cambridge (Massachusetts), The MIT Press, 2022