IDEA Arts + Society (2003–) [Romanian/English]

Idea 36-37, 2010

Idea 35, 2010

“IDEA art+society is a multiannual publication produced by IDEA, Cluj. It is published under its current form since 2003.

Allegiance to the exigency of genuine theory – a theory which is, first of all, its own practice – this is the program of IDEA arts+society magazine. This means: the practice of the concerned eye, which can be rigorous solely through the unconditional solidarity with the concrete. It is a practice of thinking which is alien to any aestheticism, hostile to any institutionalized transcendence, immune to the biased fiction of ideological neutrality, and remote from the pernicious language of our contemporary culture of ‘experts.’ In brief, it is the practice of critical and defiant reflection, dramatically lacking in the intellectual-civic debates of present-day Romania.

The graphical and logical operator ‘+’ functions as the material figura of all these dimensions, to which we can add artistic education and the public influence of art. The various ways of deciphering this sign suggest the manifold articulations between the artistic and the social realm. That is, the political.”

IDEA artă + societate / IDEA arts + society
Editors: Bogdan Ghiu, Ciprian Mureșan, Timotei Nădășan (editor-in-chief), Alexandru Polgár, Adrian T. Sîrbu, Ovidiu Țichindeleanu, Raluca Voinea
ISSN 1583–8293

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e-cart, contemporary art magazine, Nr. 1-8 (2003-2007) [English/Romanian]

e-cart.ro is a contemporary art magazine in an exclusively electronic format. It is an independent and not-for-profit initiative, founded in 2003 by Raluca Voinea, Simona Nastac, Eduard Constantin and Madalin Geana.

The magazine features exhibition reviews, interviews, artist portfolios, projects presentations, and texts by art critics, curators and artists. It aims at creating a space of encounter between contemporary art in Romania and abroad.

Issue 8, 2007
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Issue 7, March 2006
Art in Eastern Europe
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Issue 6, August 2005
The Venice Biennale; Archives (part I); Exhibitions; Projects
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Issue 5, September 2004
Artnetlab in Maribor, at the International Festival of Computer Arts; Identity and language; Diploma projects; etc.
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Issue 4, May 2004
Art/artists and spaces; Berlin Biennial 3; Vienna days in Bucharest; etc.
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Issue 3, February 2004
Education in/with Art
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Issue 2, November 2003
Istanbul Biennial 2003; Workshop: Real Presence 3 – Belgrad – 2003; etc.
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Issue 1, September 2003
Periferic 6 in Iasi: “Prophetic Corners”; H.arta group; Dan Perjovschi; Diploma projects
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Editors: Raluca Voinea and Simona Nastac
Publisher: e-cart.ro, Bucharest

David Graeber: Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011–) [EN, CZ, RU]

“Before there was money, there was debt.

Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter system–to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There’s not a shred of evidence to support it.

Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that for more than 5,000 years, since the beginning of the agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems. It is in this era, Graeber shows, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.

With the passage of time, however, virtual credit money was replaced by gold and silver coins–and the system as a whole began to decline. Interest rates spiked and the indebted became slaves. And the system perpetuated itself with tremendously violent consequences, with only the rare intervention of kings and churches keeping the system from spiraling out of control. Debt: The First 5,000 Years is a fascinating chronicle of this little known history–as well as how it has defined human history, and what it means for the credit crisis of the present day and the future of our economy.”

Publisher Melville House, July 2011
ISBN 1933633867, 9781933633862
542 pages

Original essay (Mute, February 2009)
Illustrated essay with excerpts from the book (Triple Canopy, July 2010)
Video interview on Greece (Democracy Now!, July 2011)
Video interview (PBS: Need to Know, August 2011)

Review: Maryam Monalisa Gharavi (Social Text, 2011).

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Debt: The First 5,000 Years (English, 2011, updated on 2020-4-10)
Dluh: prvních 5000 let (Czech, trans. Lenka Beranová, 2012, 71 MB, added on 2020-4-10)
Dolg: pervyye 5000 let istorii (Russian, trans. A. Dunayev, 2015, 18 MB, added on 2020-4-10)