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Poetics of Terraforming - The MATTER OF WORDS – (im)Materiality of Literature in Multimodal and Experimental Texts
No full textSelected data collected as part of The Matter of Words – (im)Materiality of Literature in Multimodal and Experimental Texts project funded by National Science Centre (NCN), Poland (OPUS Grant No. 2021/43/B/HS2/01794) consisting of materials devoted to im/material geographies in poetic works used for writing a paper on poetics of terraforming. In this practice, the act of writing can be understood more broadly as a sense-making activity that goes beyond the printed page.</p
Speculative Illustration - The MATTER OF WORDS – (im)Materiality of Literature in Multimodal and Experimental Texts
No full textSelected data collected as part of The Matter of Words – (im)Materiality of Literature in Multimodal and Experimental Texts project funded by National Science Centre (NCN), Poland (OPUS Grant No. 2021/43/B/HS2/01794). The collection includes materials related the notion and practices of illustration used for writing a paper on Speculative Illustration. The research focused on the question of representation and the problems associated with strategies of visualizing data and representing the ongoing climate crisis.</p
All Along Bob Dylan
No full textAll Along Bob Dylan: America and the World offers an important contribution to thinking about the artist and his work. Adding European and non-English speaking contexts to the vibrant field of Dylan studies, the volume covers a wide range of topics and methodologies while dealing with the inherently complex and varied material produced or associated with the iconic artist. The chapters, organized around three broad thematic sections Geographies, Receptions and Perspectives, address the notions of audience, performance and identity, allowing to map out the structure of feeling and authenticity, both, in the case of the artist and his audience. Taking its cue from the collapse of the so-called high-/ low culture split following from the Nobel Prize, the book explores the argument that Dylan (and all popular music) can be interpreted as literature and offers discussions in the context of literary traditions, or visual culture and music. This contributes to a nuanced and complex portrayal of the seminal cultural phenomenon called Bob Dylan
Selective Import: French Feminist Theory and Anglophone Critical Discourses
No full textThe article aims to sketch the reception and the representations of French feminist discourses in the Anglo-American critical theory starting from the early 1970s. It situates French Feminism within the field of French Theory, a notion created in the Anglophone critical discourses, and analyses the meanings ascribed to both terms. Through a historicised discussion of the appropriation of the French theories - for a long time limited to the propositions of Julia Kristeva, Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray - the text also attempts to present the popular critical moves (selectiveness and standardisation) in this process. What follows constitutes a brief analysis of the reasons and responses to the propagation of French feminism as a reductive construct. The article concludes registering a change in more contemporary approaches which attempt to move beyond the initial label.
Key words: French Theory, French feminism, theoretical discourse, poststructuralism
I do not much observe pictures", or looking and images in Horace Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto"
Full text linkThis article discusses Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto from the perspective of the notion and the activity of looking or being looked at. It is argued that the power of the gaze and the particular semiotics of “ocular economy”, while to some extent linked to biographical contexts, can also be noticed in Walpole’s text itself. What is studied is not only the way in which images are used in the text, i.e. what function they perform, but also how they structure the importance of an appeal to vision and images within hauntological perspective and the Gothic genre of literature
Rock is in the air? Popular music in the Anthropocene
No full textThis article analyses Western popular music in terms of content related to climate change. While references to nature have been present in song lyrics and various artistic at least since the 1960s, they seem to be gaining momentum in the view of the current ecological crisis. The discussion focuses on the ecological dimensions of rock defined also as a record of the cultural function of popular music, allowing us to take a closer look at the applications, description methods, and the purpose of environmental references. The aim of this article is not only to identify artists who address these issues, but also to reflect on the actual effects of incorporating the environmental content into popular music and its potential to express the cultural resistance. The paper is not so much interested in the recognition and cataloguing of references to the biosphere and its state or listing protest songs that call for greater care for the environment, but in how these issues have been exploited in recent cultural productions. The discussion focuses on popular music in English-speaking cultures, putting particular emphasis on broadly defined rock music recognised as largely responsible for the globalisation of many stereotypes and lifestyles so willingly copied and developed in other parts of the world
Selective Import: French Feminist Theory and Anglophone Critical Discourses
Full text linkThe article aims to sketch the reception and the representations of French feminist discourses in the Anglo-American critical theory starting from the early 1970s. It situates French Feminism within the field of French Theory, a notion created in the Anglophone critical discourses, and analyses the meanings ascribed to both terms. Through a historicised discussion of the appropriation of the French theories — for a long time limited to the propositions of Julia Kristeva, Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray — the text also attempts to present the popular critical moves (selectiveness and standardisation) in this process. What follows constitutes a brief analysis of the reasons and responses to the propagation of French feminism as a reductive construct. The article concludes registering a change in more contemporary approaches which attempt to move beyond the initial label.Key words: French Theory, French feminism, theoretical discourse, poststructuralism
In the Shade of Language [A Review of „Antropocień. Filozofia i estetyka po końcu świata” by Andrzej Marzec]
No full textArtykuł stanowi recenzję książki Andrzeja Marca pt. Antropocień. Filozofia i estetyka po końcu świata. Identyfikuje główne zakresy tematyczne omawiane przez autora (nowy materializm oraz ontologię zwróconą ku przedmiotom), a także obraną przez niego metodę. Ze względu na znaczącą rolę języka w propozycji terminologicznej filozofa, poza opisem zawartości publikacji, tekst podejmuje również próbę spojrzenia na książkę jako na zapis rozważań nad możliwością zakwestionowania i wyzwolenia się z dominującego antropocentrycznego języka.The article reviews the book by Andrzej Marzec, entitled Antropocień. Filozofia i estetyka po końcu świata. It identifies the key subject areas discussed in his work (new materialism and object‑oriented ontology), as well as the adopted method. Due to the significant role of language in the philosopher’s terminological proposition, apart from analyzing the content of the book, the article also examines the publication as an attempt to question and liberate our human selves from the possibility of the dominant, anthropocentric language
Hauntology of Responsibility: Tom Stoppard’s Darkside
No full textThe article centres on the notion of responsibility in Tom Stoppard’s Darkside (2013). While Pink Floyd’s original album, which inspired the playwright, thematises its connection to ethics in a spectral and hauntological manner, through the use of field recording sound snippets interwoven in the music, the radio play explores the notion of responsibility through what is called “thought experiments.” The article identifies the subversive function of these narrative examples and, following Emanuel Levinas’ suggestions concerning the instability of the link between the philosophical discourse and that of examples, shows the latter’s insolent and disruptive nature. The notion of responsibility is further linked to its discussion by Jacques Derrida in his Gift of Death (1995) which consequently makes it possible to view the relation between responsibility and responding from a subversive, hauntological and undecidable perspective
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