Topic under discussion: Ecological Perspectives - Eco-poetics

Guests: Associate Professor Simona Popescu, Ph.D., and Professor Caius Dobrescu, Ph.D.

“In the imaginary worlds of ecological tragedy, passive and active attitudes blend freely: bewildered visions of universal destruction, coupled with a paradoxical destructivism that claims to be anti-destructive; helpless horror in the face of global disaster, with a global fury against the Machine presumed to have caused it.” (Caius Dobrescu)

“Ecology, as I learned long ago in school from Mrs. Moldovan, my biology teacher, also means “the logic of life,” and this captivated me as a child; later, my interest in this kind of “logic” (and illogic) of the World continued to grow—from the concrete, immediate world to, later on, the circulation of ideas in nature, along with the movements, associations, analogies, tropisms, connections, the rustling, the Paraclete Wind that links the seen and the unseen, the lower with the upper, and so on. In Greek, οἶκος (oíkos) means “house,” and λογία (-logía) means “science,” so we are talking about the study of the “house” of life, so to speak. But this “house” is the wide world, with many rooms, an open labyrinth.” (Simona Popescu)