Abstract:The word "post" is used in the title of this paper as in the film industry abbreviation of "post-production." In a series of connected sequences, the paper considers the meanings of "authenticity" in its relations to the existential project of the modern humanist self, and to the artefactual register of artistic (literary) expression, which at some point coalesce indistinctly. The aura of authenticity extends over both, and the observations "in post" seek to retrace this process from beyond its accomplished form.Keywords: Authenticity; Modern Humanist Self; Interiority; Literary Expression. Rare� MoldovanBabeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania rareshmoldovan@yahoo.com DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2018.34.02 PlayA uthenticity is a dirty word. Discredited, misappropriated, overused. Not at first sight, though. At first sight a spectre, it haunts the projects (of self, of others, of other selves), apparent and apparently from within, from the pulses of self-desire bee-beeping in the imagined future. A last word, it is made the weight of literature, the litmus of experience-in-literature, if it is to be present. A pronounced word, its pronouncement is always a sentence. It liaises the two: the envisioned self to be confirmed and the inscription that confirms; and the harmless liaison is thought to be flow, recursive flow, contaminating, transmissible flow.

Abstract:The paper looks at the figure of the "geek" in popular culture, and especially in Ernest Cline's novel Ready Player One, also with a view towards the forthcoming adaptation directed by Steven Spielberg. Tracing the contours of the geek imaginary, the paper looks at its inscription in popular culture, political economy, it explores nostalgia as an enabling force, modes of community, sociability and socialization, building toward the unlikely concept of "geektopia."

Check Impulse: Traversing Hades. The paper considers the “Hades” episode in Joyce’s Ulysses with a view towards the concepts of mobility, urban space and impulse interwoven therein. A traverse of the city as pre-modern and modern arrangement of space and social dynamics, from street to cemetery the chapter gathers the various meanings of social mobility, together with their socialised impulses and checks. Outer mobility and inner impulsivity are analysed in their interrelation in macro- and micro-contexts. Rezumat. Verifică impulsul: traversând Hades. Articolul discută episodul “Hades” din Ulise de James Joyce, din perspectiva conceptelor de mobilitate, spațiu urban și impuls, care se întrepătrund în text. O traversare a orașului ca aranjament pre-modern și modern al spațiului și dinamicii sociale, din stradă la cimitir capitolul înmănunchează sensurile varii ale mobilității sociale, împreună cu impulsurile și obstacolele lor socializate. Mobilitatea exterioară și impulsivitatea interioară sunt analizate în interrelația lor în macro- și micro-contexte. Cuvinte cheie: James Joyce, Ulise, spațiu urban, mobilitate, impuls socializat

In recent years, the 80s and the attached plethora of cultural synecdoches have been haunting various genres of American film and TV. Often both the cinematic form and the content of these recirculations are structured around tropes established in the period by directors such as Steven Spielberg, John Carpenter, Robert Zemeckis, Richard Donner, Rob Reiner, Ivan Reitman and others. The paper considers the case of the Netflix TV show Stranger Things, directed by the Duffer brothers, attempting to read its spectral physiognomy and filiations, as well as to interpret its theoretical undertones in popular culture. The paper will analyze the theoretical implications between the small town of the story and the placeholder planetary spaces it is distributed to, as well as the curious palimpsest of temporalities manifest in the show’s stories, the show itself as a global product and its distribution

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