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Studying culture as an entity. Towards metaphysical cultural studies
No full textRecenzja książki: Pacukiewicz, Marek. Krajobrazy kontekstu [Context landscapes]. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2021
Semiosfera badań etnograficznych Jana Czekanowskiego
Get PDFThe subject of the article is the semiosphere of ethnographic research of Jan Czekanowski, understood
as a unique semiotic space, which is prerequisite for the emergence of some specific cultural
science discourses. The author analyzes the researcher’s journals, trying to recreate the “dense”
plexus of inspirations and contexts underlying the particular research model
‘A different fabric’. The overt and the hidden in Joseph Conrad’s prefaces to his prose works
Get PDFIn A Familiar Preface to the ‘autobiographical’ volume A Personal Record. Some Reminiscences, Joseph Conrad provides that, in this work, there is no ‘veil’ separating the reader from the author. Despite this declaration, Conrad’s ‘memories’ goes beyond autobiography and you can risk the thesis that all ‘autobiographical’ texts are rather telling – in the idiomatic way – not about a man but cultural contexts, which formed him. Conrad ’s paratexts (the famous preface to The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, mentioned A Familiar Preface and Author’s notes written by Conrad for subsequent volumes of his works in the period 1917-1920) make an even greater problem of interpretation. They contain not only the artistic statements, but also a surprising ‘autobiographical’ reference and ‘guidance’ of interpretation – that really explains very little and seem to talk about something else. It is difficult to treat Conrad’s paratexts as autobiographical texts (though they often pretend to be); in turn proposal of seeing in them ‘author function’ in the classic form, indicated by Michel Foucault, also appears to be incomplete, because these paratexts simultaneously create author and his cultural context and literary craftsmanship. It seems, therefore, that Conrad considered his paratexts (especially Author’s notes) as a separate literary genre, in accordance with the instructions of Kierkegaard
“You Have the World in You”. Narrative and Context of Joseph Conrad’s The Tale
No full textSuperficially regarded Conrad’s The Tale is a self-contained story. However, by using a mythical formula and by emphasising the opposition between night and the fog, the author goes beyond simple literary convention and draws the reader’s attention to the broader context around it. The theme of the story is silence in the face of the overwhelming tragedy of World War I
A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term. Bronislaw Malinowski's Fortunate Defeat
No full textMarek Pacukiewicz
A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term. Bronislaw Malinowski's Fortunate Defeat
Inspired by two images of Bronislaw Malinowski made by Witkacy and the idea of repetition which they inevitably evoke, the author points to the essential duality characterising Malinowski' s Diary. The duality in question is the one between the sublime metaphysics of the mind/spirit and the dogging corporeality of the body. This particular opposition is also reflected in Malinowski's language which remains unintentionally transgressive, always on the verge of succumbing to its internal centrifugal force questioning its internal metaphysical element in favour of the discourse of emptiness and melancholy. Thus, following Joseph Conrad, Malinowski's Diary inscribes itself into the context of 19th "crisis of metaphysics" which eventually opens up a path to ontological identity located between repetition and mask and susceptible to the dynamics of ontological mobility.Marek Pacukiewicz
A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term. Bronislaw Malinowski's Fortunate Defeat
Inspired by two images of Bronislaw Malinowski made by Witkacy and the idea of repetition which they inevitably evoke, the author points to the essential duality characterising Malinowski' s Diary. The duality in question is the one between the sublime metaphysics of the mind/spirit and the dogging corporeality of the body. This particular opposition is also reflected in Malinowski's language which remains unintentionally transgressive, always on the verge of succumbing to its internal centrifugal force questioning its internal metaphysical element in favour of the discourse of emptiness and melancholy. Thus, following Joseph Conrad, Malinowski's Diary inscribes itself into the context of 19th "crisis of metaphysics" which eventually opens up a path to ontological identity located between repetition and mask and susceptible to the dynamics of ontological mobility
Między wstydem a bezwstydem — kulturowy eksperyment Salmana Rushdiego [Between shame and shamelessness — Salman Rushdie's cultural experiment]
No full textShame is a cultural element that is characterised both by a high degree of invariantability, as well as by historical variation. The crucial, and contextual cultural patterns are built around shame; we even speak of the typology of cultures based on this concept. The main function of shame is a control function aimed at conserving cultural norms, both in terms of corporeality, behaviours, and also ideas; therefore, it operates in culture both in the verbal and the proxemic space.
In the novel Shame, Salman Rushdie, considering a cultural identity problem in the post-colonial world, confronts with each other the characters extremely shameful and shameless. Thanks to that experiment, the author reflects on durability of a complex understanding of cultural tradition.
The purpose of this article is to analyse cultural forms of shame expressed in the literary work on the basis of some research suggestions from the field of anthropology of literature. This perspective should enable reflection on the contemporary vision of a universal and contextual dimension of culture outside the framework of post–colonial criticism
Dziennik w ścisłym znaczeniu tego wyrazu. Szczęśliwa porażka Bronisława Malinowskiego
No full textMarek PacukiewiczA Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term. Bronislaw Malinowski\u27s Fortunate DefeatInspired by two images of Bronislaw Malinowski made by Witkacy and the idea of repetition which they inevitably evoke, the author points to the essential duality characterising Malinowski\u27 s Diary. The duality in question is the one between the sublime metaphysics of the mind/spirit and the dogging corporeality of the body. This particular opposition is also reflected in Malinowski\u27s language which remains unintentionally transgressive, always on the verge of succumbing to its internal centrifugal force questioning its internal metaphysical element in favour of the discourse of emptiness and melancholy. Thus, following Joseph Conrad, Malinowski\u27s Diary inscribes itself into the context of 19th "crisis of metaphysics" which eventually opens up a path to ontological identity located between repetition and mask and susceptible to the dynamics of ontological mobility.Marek PacukiewiczA Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term. Bronislaw Malinowski\u27s Fortunate DefeatInspired by two images of Bronislaw Malinowski made by Witkacy and the idea of repetition which they inevitably evoke, the author points to the essential duality characterising Malinowski\u27 s Diary. The duality in question is the one between the sublime metaphysics of the mind/spirit and the dogging corporeality of the body. This particular opposition is also reflected in Malinowski\u27s language which remains unintentionally transgressive, always on the verge of succumbing to its internal centrifugal force questioning its internal metaphysical element in favour of the discourse of emptiness and melancholy. Thus, following Joseph Conrad, Malinowski\u27s Diary inscribes itself into the context of 19th "crisis of metaphysics" which eventually opens up a path to ontological identity located between repetition and mask and susceptible to the dynamics of ontological mobility
Dziennik w ścisłym znaczeniu tego wyrazu. Szczęśliwa porażka Bronisława Malinowskiego
Get PDFInspired by two images of Bronislaw Malinowski made by Witkacy and the idea of repetition which they inevitably evoke, the author points to the essential duality characterising Malinowski' s Diary. The duality in question is the one between the sublime metaphysics of the mind/spirit and the dogging corporeality of the body. This particular opposition is also reflected in Malinowski's language which remains unintentionally transgressive, always on the verge of succumbing to its internal centrifugal force questioning its internal metaphysical element in favour of the discourse of emptiness and melancholy. Thus, following Joseph Conrad, Malinowski's Diary inscribes itself into the context of 19th "crisis of metaphysics" which eventually opens up a path to ontological identity located between repetition and mask and susceptible to the dynamics of ontological mobility
Łącznik
Get PDFUżytą przez Marcela Maussa na określenie istoty „mana” metaforę „łącznika” można uznać za funkcję całościowego opisu kontekstu kulturowego. Znaczenie to staje się wyraźne, kiedy spojrzymy na problem przez pryzmat tekstów Claude’a Lévi-Straussa czy Jacquesa Derridy. Metaforę łącznika, który stanowi „część złożonego orzeczenia imiennego, ograniczającą treść orzecznika pod względem czasowym”, ekstrapolować można na problematykę terenowych badań antropologicznych o charakterze całościowym. Podczas gdy Malinowski badając kulturę stara się myśleć „pełnymi zdaniami”, dopiero potem dokonując ich „rozbioru gramatycznego”, Mauss, nie posiadając szerszego kontekstu wypowiedzi, a dysponując poszczególnymi „częściami zdania”, musi położyć nacisk na element łączący je w logiczną całość. Z kolei Lévi-Strauss, zgodnie z zasadami językoznawstwa strukturalnego, poszukując „rzeczywistej” morfologii zdań kultury, powierzchniową warstwę ich sensu wykorzystuje jako ścieżkę wiodąca wprost do poziomu relacji fonologicznych. Zestawione ze sobą, propozycje te wywołują problem „obecności”, który na gruncie antropologii przestaje być pytaniem filozoficznym i nabiera charakteru metodologicznego i kontekstualnego
Cultural aspects of Joseph Conrad´s autobiography. On the digressive structure of <i>Some Reminiscences</i>
No full textIn this essay I attempt to analyse Joseph Conrad’s ‘autobiography’ - as it is presented in Some Reminiscences - with particular reference to the enduring cultural patterns that it exhibits. According to the configurationist or “culture and personality” approach elaborated by American anthropologists such as Ruth Benedict and Ralph Linton, patterns of behaviour transmitted within particular cultural groups permanently configure the personality model of its members both at the level of everyday behaviour and at the level of ideal patterns. This is confirmed by an analysis of Conrad’s autobiography, in which the writer draws on the ideal patterns of the culture of the Polish eastern borderlands (which he acquired during the process of socialization) - not only in order to analyse his own personality, but also to govern his behaviour in completely different cultural contexts. Even more interestingly, these behavioural patterns have configured the particular model of the world that is reflected in the very structure of Conrad’s works. In this connection the influence of the gawęda or ‘Polish nobleman’s tale’ would seem to be indisputable. It is not so much that Conrad alludes to this literary convention in his autobiographical reminiscences, but rather that he uses it to re-create the model (based on cultural patterns) of the imagination of a Polish nobleman from the eastern borderlands. Moreover, this culturally determined writing strategy is used in Conrad’s other works
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