RELEASE OF THE VOLUMES ORDERING CHAOS. TWAU 2021 and FIRE, ASHES & SUCH. TWAU 2022
Editura Universitara and the TWAU Student Club (The World Around Us) organized a double book launch on November 5, 2022, in the multifunctional room on the ground floor of SNSPA, in Expozitiei Boulevard 30A.
The volumes Ordering Chaos (2021) and Fire, Ashes & Such (2022) met their readers and authors for the first time, under the same roof. Both volumes, edited and coordinated by Prof. Dr. Silvia Osman, appeared at the Bucharest University Publishing House and were only launched online (due to the conditions generated by the Covid 19 pandemic), through promotional trailers, which can be found in the link the hours below.
Despite the title, Ordering Chaos is neither about chaos nor about order, but rather about how, understanding the surrounding reality, we manage to find the order of our priorities, meet our passion (or vision?) and start looking, through her eyes, the world. This volume is about freedom and about the way, about how we learn to row against the current, when our values refuse to swim in the statutory water of mediocrity. This volume is about breaking the interhuman curtain raised by masks, screens and isolation and about the courage to be who we really are.
The beautiful young people who sign the works of this volume are free and brave, serious, ambitious, persevering and have a pure soul. I am part of a generation in the making which, Petre Tutea said a long time ago, could be born like this: "a head appears - or maybe several at once, which are anchored in the same ideal." You are here and now in front of a collective work of such "heads", who subtly reveal their ideals, between the lines and through carefully chosen words. You are presented in Ordering Chaos, with subject and predicate, a new generation that, gradually revealing itself, opens its wings in times when freedom and normality have become states of exception.
Painting from words and shaping from images the subtle fabric of the present volume, these young people pencil the world around them (and ours), with its wonders and chasms, building bridges of understanding and sand castles, each in their own way.
I invite you to enjoy each individual work, to look beyond the carefully chosen words and you will see what I see now, today, after I ended a disturbing and tumultuous year, alongside them, a year in which the surrounding reality it overturned our plans and reconfigured our personal and professional routes, like a Waze overtaken by rush hour traffic in a Western metropolis.
It was both difficult and easy to give birth to Fire, Ashes & Such in 2022, from the ashes of the present tried by the experience of "it is not possible". I had a handful of exceptional young people with me, capable, prudent, rigorous, beautiful, inside and out. You can find them all here, in Fire, Ashes & Such, signing the works you are about to read in this volume, the ninth building, of the TWAU series.
Together with them, this year, we built together a world of words, dreams and memories, of thoughts and emotions, from what we found at hand, in each of our pockets, a breath of fresh air. We ticked strictures, intertwined opinions, clarified boundaries and outlined common values, agreed on many things, negotiated terms (not all lexical) and chose to walk together on this path of the Phoenix, let's see where it carries us. We started hesitantly, all of us, but with the right, to gradually build trust, in each other and in our own strengths, by writing and editing these carefully crafted texts, which are presented to you, today, between the elegant covers of this volume.
The texture from which Fire, Ashes & Such weaves its story is unique, and its invisible threads bind bundles of courage, inspiration, imagination, creativity and immutable values, generously bathed in light. From thought to thought, word by word, we see reality taking shape for us naturally in what is and what will be, aiming at lucifers and dreaming endlessly. Fire, Ashes & Such flows fluidly, on notes and chords, sometimes strange, sometimes familiar, it carries us towards us, walking on clouds with red leaping legs.
This year, in the midst of all the hot things that surround us, from east to west, with their tight arm, Fire, Ashes & Such brings us the light and we invite you to read and wake up dreaming of the world around you built of words, as we see it today, contemplating the meaning of the words written by Carl Gustav Jung last century.
"No one wakes up dreaming of phantasms of light, but becoming aware of darkness, of the darkness that surrounds us and inhabits us."
I wish everyone, in the midst of darkness, at least an eye of light! In the shadow of burning darkness, look through this eye of light, the texts written by the beautiful young people who sign Fire, Ashes & Such in 2022. All of them, as one, speak, between the lines, about the world that will be someday, sooner or later, the world that will be reborn, like a great Phoenix, from the ashes of our days, from now.
Conf. Dr. Silvia Osman
10 august 2022
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