Horia Mihălcescu este absolvent al Facultății de Automatică si Calculatoare a Universității Politehnice București si a Facultății de Filosofie a Universității București, deține un MBA la ASSEBUS, deține un doctorat in Marketing la ASE București si este cadru didactic asocial al FABIZ din cadrul ASE București. Horia Vicențiu Pătrașcu este ... Citește mai mult

Axel Honneth & Nancy Fraser, Despre redistribuire și recunoaștere. O controversă politico-filosofică, traducere de Maria-Magdalena Anghelescu, introducere de Codrin Tăut, Editura Tact, Cluj-Napoca, 2012, 365 p. ... Citește mai mult

Nadejda Ivanov, Fracturi identitare / Secvențe critice, Junimea, 2025 ... Citește mai mult

Abstract: This article examines a model of social justice that European Capitals of Culture (ECoCs) might integrate into their cultural strategies to prevent the reproduction of social inequalities through cultural consumption. Drawing on Bourdieu, Fraser, and Mouffe, I propose a framework incorporating cultural capital and participatory governance. This model blends leftist and rightist approaches, combining distributive justice and dismantling cultural hegemony with meritocracy, excellence and heritage. I argue that a significant outcome of this entanglement is the potential to foster collective European citizenship and awareness, promoting competitive narratives of belonging while avoiding inequalities between residents, tourists, and host cities.

Keywords: social justice; meritocracy; cultural capital; European capitals of culture; European citizenship; participative governance ... Citește mai mult

Abstract: This article presents a structural analysis of the Romanian media system before the onset of the 2008 economic crisis. Economic growth and certain changes in advertising legislation created the conditions for a coherent and complex media system integrated into the capitalist economy. However, this transformation phase was short-lived due to the conflict between “moguls“ and politicians in power, as well as the negative impact that communication technology transformations had on traditional mass media.

Keywords: Romanian media system; media conglomeration; 2008 economic crisis ... Citește mai mult

Abstract: This paper challenges the dominant narrative that attributes contemporary political polarization in Western democracies primarily to digital technologies and social media, arguing instead that its main root lies in structural socioeconomic polarization, in particular the sustained rise of economic and political inequality since the 1980s. Using historical data from the United States and Western Europe (1920–2026), the paper shows that the U shaped trajectory of inequality preceded political fragmentation, that institutional differences in labour organization, progressive taxation, and the design of the welfare state account for cross national variation in polarization more convincingly than internet penetration, and that digital technologies operate as amplifiers of pre existing social cleavages.

Keywords: political polarization; economic inequality; political inequality; elite capture; social media; affective polarization; trade unions ... Citește mai mult