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Salman Rushdie's 2012 memoir, Joseph Anton, marks a turning point in his career. While his earlier work celebrated "cultural translation" and the emergence of "newness" into the world, this book expresses reservations. "The arrival of the new was not always linked to progress", Rushdie writes, "Men found new ways of oppressing one another, too, new ways of unmaking their best achievements and sliding back towards that primal ooze; and men's darkest innovations, as much as their brightest ones, confused their fellow men". These "dark newnesses", as he calls them, "were innovations that came into being in the name of a totalizing ideology, an absolute ruler, an unarguable dogma, or a god". However, despite this turn towards a more binary worldview, the complexity of Rushdie's earlier writing refuses to be completely stifled, and this article argues that Joseph Anton is ultimately unable to persuasively follow through on its rhetoric of a world simplistically torn between newnesses "bright" and "dark". Although frequently relying on binary language, it is precisely the memoir's patent failure to convincingly represent the world in such starkly simplistic terms that, inadvertently, renders it valuable in foregrounding the nuances of post-9/11 identity politics that its author ostensibly seeks to deny.

Albania is a state where political violence has been present for 45 years, 1945-1990. In our literature after the crash of communism many books were written. They are based on topic of memory of political violence. The Albanian literature includes author and works from Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, which use Albanian language. One of the most important writer of Albanian short stories is Anton Pashku (1937-1995). His short stories aims to discover the relationship between human, war, violence and life. He chose symbolic objects and situations, which describe confrontation of mind with memories. These memories are from real World War II, from occupation of Kosovo by Serbian state, from Albanian dictatorship, but are never named in the short story. The memory of war and violence influence everyday life of character. They live with fear, they are isolated from other people such as real world. They identify themselves with memory, they can not escape from memories. Element such as: smoke, machinery, fire, sound, noise, reveal memories. The short stories of Anton Pashku represent an universal relation of human and memories of violence that are present nowadays. Human and machinery, man and war, man and ethnic identity, human and freedom. The purpose of this presentation is to give aspect of artistic narration of memories. DOI:10.5901/jesr.2014.v4n4p17

Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960), prominent astronomer and world-renowned socialist theorist, stood at the nexus of the revolutions in politics, science and the arts of the early twentieth century. His astronomy was uniquely visual and highly innovative, while his politics were radical. Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society collects essays on Pannekoek and his contemporaries at the crossroads of political history, the history of science and art history.