Politicizing flight in Edward Albee’s seascape

Abstract

In the recent years, scholars and critics have become increasingly interested in the view that art is a means to escape from the existent reality and the difficulties of modern civilization. Accordingly, the literary work becomes emblematic of a voyage of spiritual discovery and the text turns into a virtual journey beyond the normal everyday world. Many writers emphasized in their works the need to be emancipated from the restrictions of modern life and underlined the idea that flight, with its different dimensions, is the ultimate way to avoid the complexities of contemporary life and circumvent the social standards and the political regulations. In the postmodern political thought, there is a similar tendency that valorizes the struggle for the liberation of the individual from all forms of repression and domination exerted by sociopolitical forces. Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari, for instance, criticize the constraints and rules that power authorities use to control the individual and call instead for freeing humans from the authoritarian policies of the social and political institutions.

International legal aspects of migration in the EU

“…The methodological basis of the work is represented by a set of methodological approaches, a set of philosophical, general scientific and private-scientific methods, which allowed to ensure the reliability and validity of the research results. Taking into account the specifics of the subject, purpose and objectives of the study, the following main methodological approaches were used, among others: a systematic approach -when considering the place and role of migration in the structure of social life; comparative approach -in the process of correlation of general, special, individual and unique in migration as a phenomenon; anthropological approach -in determining the problematic aspects of the legal regulation of migration through the prism of the "human factor", ie various forms of legal existence of man as a migrant; axiological approach -features of the legal values of the European Union (Khamari, 2021;Sarnoto & Hayatina, 2021).…”

Boundary-Crossing: A Posthumanist Reading of Edward Albee’s Seascape

“…Charlie decried the intrusion of technology into nature and predicted that the plane would crash one day. This, according to Khamari (2021), demonstrates that Charlie and Nancy "believe that after witnessing a long period of prosperity, civilizations will ultimately collapse" (p. 12). Besides, Khamari reads the play's title, "seascape" as an escape to the sea, i.e., "the couple's escape from civilization and the monotony of suburban life to the sea" (p. 11).…”

When does the state disappear? (in memory of Rudolf Kjellen)

“…And if this "organisation of nature itself" is destroyed, then not only the state is destroyed but also the land, to which this state was tied, can be organised in another way, given the task of ensuring the viability of another state and acquire, as a result, of a completely different kind. And all this because geopolitics deals with the state not as a "legal construction", but as an empirical fact that "relentlessly seeks to realise the opportunities for development that offer it the inclinations of the people and the geographical environment" (Khamari, 2021;Sukadi et al, 2021) The ways to realise these opportunities can be so different that in some cases the emergence of a "new country in the same place" is not excluded. And, again, "in the same place" does not mean on the same land, the landscape of which, as shown by the example of lands in the valley of Guadalajara, Tigris and Euphrates or "malaria coast of Italy", may change beyond recognition due to the fact that "new peoples and states", which took the place of "Moors, Babylonians and ancient Romans", abandoned irrigation facilities.…”