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Problems of the Mandatory Local Jurisdiction under the Civil Procedure Code
No full textThe article reviews the different types of claims, under which local jurisdiction is established in the Civil Procedure Code as mandatory, and analyzes the interrelation between them. Special attention is given to the recent amendments to the Civil Procedure Code, which expand the list of claims with mandatory local jurisdiction. The relevant case law of the Supreme Cassation Court, as well as the different opinions in the legal theory, are also covered
Sofia in the First Issues of the Archaeology Magazine
Full text linkThe text presents a review and a comment of research texts that are connected with the archaeology of Sofia and Sofia region and published in the magazine “Archaeology” during the first 30 years of its creation. The role of archaeological publications, the contribution of the authors, the objects which are presented, the ratio between archaeology and authority, the results, to which the researches in this period lead, are explored
The Relation between Moral Responsibility and Moral Luck
Full text linkThis article is an overview of the relationship between moral responsibility and moral luck, two concepts in moral philosophy. Moral responsibility refers to an individual’s accountability for their actions, while moral luck highlights how factors beyond one’s control can influence moral judgments. The paradox of moral luck challenges the traditional understanding of moral responsibility, leading to significant philosophical debates. By examining various perspectives, including those of Aristotle, Kant, and contemporary philosophers like Bernard Williams and Thomas Nagel, the paper analyzes how moral luck complicates notions of justice and fairness in moral evaluation. Ultimately, the article proposes a reevaluation or replacement of these concepts to better align with real-world complexities
Conceptualizing digital reality through metaphors: Semiotic and interdisciplinary perspective
Full text linkMetaphors have always played a fundamental role in conceptualizing digital realities. Their everyday use, however, makes them challenging to recognize, as they have solidified in our shared imagination. This crystallization is precisely what enables a community of interpreters to attach meaning to a signifier, allowing mutual understanding
Idiomatic Space of Anthroposemic Substantival Bahuvrihi with a Zoonym Component and its Semantic Modelling in Modern English
No full textThe article considers the versatility in perception of a person’s appearance and streaks of character through the phenomenon of bakhuvrihi with a zoonym component according to conceptual pattern: OBJECT (ZOONYM) → HUMAN / PART OF THE HUMAN BODY, where ZOONYM acts as a conception referred to by a word, and HUMAN / PART OF THE HUMAN BODY – a conception recognized as a target. This study focuses upon the new integrated approach to the anthroposemic substantival bahuvrihi with a zoonym component in the cognitive and semantic perspectives. The choice of such bahuvrihi is justified by the fact that the "zoonym-words" are perhaps the most proliferous lexical source of the items with positive / negative connotation, firmly based on traditions in specific cultural contexts and are traces of mythical thinking. Idiomatic space of anthroposemic substantival bahuvrihi with a zoonym component appears to be a complex structure of knowledge about humankind in biological, mental and social dimensions
Kristeva’s Impact on Translation and the Interplay of Intertextuality, Transposition and Intersemiosis
Full text linkThis essay attempts to present the impact of Kristeva's concepts of intertextuality and transposition on translation studies. The concept of intertextuality contributed significantly to the study of the concept of intersemiosis, although quite often it is difficult to distinguish the two in translation studies. Interestingly, even though intersemiosis or intersemiotic translation is the object of study in translation studies, the translation of intertextuality is a much more prominent focus for translation scholars. At the same time, intersemiosis is considered the most important subject for translation scholars and translation semioticians, who should have the first say. To sum up, Kristeva's important contribution lies in the fact that two important terms, "intertextuality" and "transposition," important terms for the study of literature, have also become objects of study in theoretical and applied translation studies
Kristeva on Exile, Artificial Intelligence, and the One-dimensional Universe
Full text linkIn the beginning of the twenty-first century, when algorithms are monitoring our most intimate activities, the data-driven relationships created by digital hyperconnectivity attempt to reduce the distance between us and flatten our differences. Kristeva’s question, “Can the ‘foreigner’ […] disappear from modern societies?” (Kristeva 1991, 1), raises concerns about this ostensibly frictionless future. She sees the difference inherent in foreignness as a flux of possibilities to be explored, rather than a quality to be homogenized, as data algorithms do. However, the desire to encounter the “essential enigma” of foreignness (Kristeva 1991, 33; emphasis in original) both with regards to an external Other and to our own unconscious, has been rendered not only redundant but progressively vestigial by the intellectual, cultural, and material vacuums created by artificial intelligence (AI). In an age when the superficial comfort of hyperconnectivity proclaims to alleviate the sense of being uprooted “from a family, a country or a language,” Kristeva reminds us that “[w]riting is impossible without some kind of exile” (Kristeva 1986, 298). To attempt to resurrect the potential of dissidence Kristeva sees in exile would be to dissolve AI’s maniacal efforts to categorize identity in favor of disarticulating it – a task at the heart of Kristeva’s intellectual project. It would also imply undermining the centrality of efficiency in neoliberal societies, because the quest for efficiency culminates in a system for the accounting-like management of life as well as in the adolescent “malady of ideality” (Kristeva 2019, 322), which seeks to extract a neatly structured order from the disorganized plurality of human activity at the nexus of the semiotic and the symbolic. This essay aims to provide not only a Kristevan critique of AI’s flattening of life’s dimensions, but also open potential avenues for revolt based on Kristeva’s psychoanalytic and political work
Kristeva as Semiotician Today
Full text linkEven a cursory exploration of the international semiotics scene today reveals that the work of Julia Kristeva is underrepresented. The radical- ism of her texts is an abiding reason for the fact that Semeiotike remains stubbornly "inconvertible" (Nikolchina 2011) into mainstream semiotics. This essay elaborates two opposed philosophical temperaments and a series of functional dualisms, including signification vs. communication and quasi-sign vs. fully fledged sign, in connection with Kristeva's own dualism, the symbolic vs. the semiotic. The quasi-sign doctrine is just one example of how Kristevan dualisms make possible non-reductive existential and social commitments and afford a written textual method applicable across the board in general semiotics. The Kristevan methods of polylogue, narrativization, and auto-critique are highest-order humanities tools for regulating ideology at the level of the text; they also contribute to the inconvertibility of Kristeva's books as hermetic and seemingly incomprehensible artifacts. The interest of these methods is intractable to quantitative methods and non-describable by natural science. This is one reason we provide such an effective interdisciplinary framework in humanities research - as semiotics aligns more and more with the strug- gle to revitalize the problematic humanities, Kristeva remains/returns as a core theoretic coordinate
Turkey's behavior in the context of the recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict
No full textThe article examines the emergence of one of the longest-lasting armed conflicts and its use as a means of increasing political influence. In recent months, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has become a catalyst for Turkish policy in the Middle East region and is being actively used to advance Turkey's strategic goals. The specific actions by which Ankara is trying to achieve its intentions have not been well received by certain Muslim countries, making Turkey's geopolitical rise difficult to achieve