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Integration of renewable energy systems in the infrastructure of smart cities
Full text linkAll initiatives related to the reduction of energy consumption, the use of renewable energy sources and the construction of smart cities are the main priorities of modern society. Profitability, ecological footprint, and reliability are factors that determine the investment choice. Globally, there is growing commitment to climate change mitigation, with the research community and businesses innovating in smart cities, green energy, and energy efficiency. The report examines the importance of renewable energy in making cities bright and the challenges and prospects for using renewable energy. Renewable energy sources, such as solar, wind, hydro and geothermal, have significant potential to generate clean, abundant energy without the harmful emissions associated with fossil fuels. It is crucial to understand the importance of renewable energy sources and the critical role that smart meters play in realizing their full potential
Perception of the Russo-Ukrainian war and the images of Russia and Ukraine in the protest movement ‘Frankfurter Freigeister’ in Frankfurt (Oder)
Full text linkThe German government's reaction to Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, and in particular the policy of sanctions against Russia and the supply of arms to Ukraine, led to a wave of discontent in parts of German society. The issue of the Russo-Ukrainian war was taken up by protest movements in various cities that had already formed at that time (including during the COVID-19 pandemic). The most regular and numerous were the demonstrations in East Germany, where thousands of people protested every Monday in the so-called ‘Montagsdemonstration’. The ‘Frankfurter Freigeister’, a protest movement in Frankfurt on the Oder in Brandenburg, were no exception. The multitude of Russian flags, the contradictory demands and the aggressive actions of the protesters raise a number of questions about their perception of the Russo-Ukrainian war itself and of Russia and Ukraine in general. This article looks at the issues raised by the ‘Frankfurter Freigeister’ in relation to the war and the factors that may be driving them. But first of all, how does this protest movement perceive the Russo-Ukrainian war and the role of Russia and Ukraine in it
The Repressive Policies of the Communist Regime: Bulgarian Muslims and Communal Memory
Full text linkThis article examines the chronology of the assimilation policies and the attempt to erase the group religious identity of the Pomak population in the Rhodope Mountains. Also included are short excerpts from the accounts of a small number of people who recount family memories of the trauma of the largest assimilation campaign in Communist Bulgaria
Indifferentiating the Undifferentiated in Kristeva’s Revolution in Poetic Language
Full text linkWhen Kristeva published her doctoral thesis La révolution du langage poétique in the early 1970s, its engagement with the philosophy of difference was groundbreaking. However, nearly fifty years later, the rise of indifferential systems of thought in continental philosophy, such as we find in Giorgio Agamben's archeology, Alain Badiou's ontology, set theory, and analytic extensionalism, means that, returning to Kristeva's foundational text, it can appear dated and impossible to recuperate for a twenty-first century philosophical situation. Yet central to Kristeva's work is the semiotic chora, which is described as uncertain, indeterminate, quantity without quality, suspensive, nonexpressive and undifferentiated. While, intrinsic to her theorization of the thetic as central to the symbolic order is Frege's extensional, indifferent theory of denotation and the indifference of truth. Both the semiotic and the thetic suggest that Kristeva is not insensible to the conceptual potential of the philosophy of indifference. Taking the semiotic chora and the positing function of the thetic as our starting point, therefore, this paper will attempt a remapping of Kristeva's work by thinking of the chora, and the thetic indifferentially
Poetic Mimesis in Kristeva
Full text linkThe purpose of this paper is to reflect on the figure of the break in the framework of the early Kristeva's conceptualization of the mimetic faculty in Revolution in Poetic Language (1974), treating it as closely related to poetic language and the dreamwork. Kristeva supplements the psychoanalytic terms displacement and condensation with a third mode of transformation in language, namely transposition. Transposition always operates between two levels of the semiotic process, the genotext and the phenotext. I will examine the mechanism of the dream within a dream in Freud and poetic mimesis in Kristeva. In order to subvert the contemporary logic of authenticity, they use break and doubling in a way similar to the operation of the text-within-a-text device. Poetic enjambment is seen as material discontinuity in language. The key point of this article is that one should not forget about poetry
On Melancholy and Allegory (Kristeva and Benjamin)
Full text linkIn this text I focus on the notion of melancholy in the work of Julia Kristeva, mainly in Black Sun (1987), in relation to Walter Benjamin's concept of allegory developed in his 1928 monograph Origin of the German Trauerspiel as well as in his later work, the Arcades Project (1927-40). This essay is an exploration of how Kristeva's theory of artistic practice as a way out of melancholy's abyss relates to Benjamin's idea of an allegorical mode of expression. Both artistic practice and the allegorical are situated in an intermediate realm between the absence of language and the never-ending accumulation of signs
Les anges déchus (la maladie de l’infini, le corps politique de l’Empire et la psychose)
Full text linkThis article treats the possible plausible or non-plausible analogies between the psychosis and the political corps of the empire. The arguments follow three steps: 1) Lacan’s structure of the psychosis; 2) Kristeva’s explanation of the abject; 3) the contemporary vision of the empire. The point at issue is the association of the ignorance of boundaries and the non-recognition of others, the strangers, the universal rights of humans, the hiatus of the low? And the difference of those two phenomena
Collecting Electronic Evidence During the Investigation of Crimes Related to the Distribution of Synthetic Drugs
No full textElectronic evidence is increasingly used in the investigation of crimes in contemporary times. The dynamics of development of modern society and the technological “boom”, as well as the application of technologies in every aspect of our daily life, contribute to the fact that an increasing number of illegal acts leave an “electronic mark”. The distribution of synthetic drugs is no exception. This publication examines the main aspects of crimes related to the distribution of synthetic narcotic substances, the specifics associated with their investigation, the possibilities of using electronic evidence, and examples of practices that could be actively implemented to prevent and reduce crimes in this area
On the Relation Between the Legal Interest, the Contractual Interest and the Default for Delay in Case of Non-Fulfilment of a Civil Pecuniary Obligation
No full textThe present article focuses on the interest as an accessory right dependent on the existence of another (principal) right. The main type of interest analyzed is the legal interest which is established in art. 86 of the Obligations and Contracts Act. This interest is applicable in all cases when the parties to a legal relation have not agreed on another size of the interest for non-fulfilment of a civil pecuniary obligation. The parties may agree on either a higher interest (in which case there will be a default for delay), or on a lower one. The article studies the relationship between the legal interest and the two types of contractual compensations