This article considers the problem of the scale of locality as a matter of placing technology in an (alter)cosmological perspective. It engages in a dialogue with two Simondon-inspired projects: on the one hand, Yuk Hui’s concept of cosmotechnics, and on the other, the transductive theory of systems outlined in the Deleuzoguattarian Thousand Plateaus. A new reading of a marginal thread of the latter, i.e., the universe of technical objects associated with the nomadism of the Great Steppe of the Bronze and Iron Ages, leads to the crystallization of the concept of chaosmotechnics, according to which the substrate of technical activities is the contingency of the cosmos. Answering the question of locality, the chaosmotechnic perspective allows for the untimely emergence of an alternative cosmology of the contemporary digital image from nomadic metal technical objects. Key-words: cosmos, technology, art, digital image, Witold Gombrowicz, Yuk Hui, Gilbert Simondon, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Laura U. Marks
{"title":"Co to jest chaosmotechnika?","authors":"Radek Przedpełski","doi":"10.61269/jnff9866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.61269/jnff9866","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers the problem of the scale of locality as a matter of placing technology in an (alter)cosmological perspective. It engages in a dialogue with two Simondon-inspired projects: on the one hand, Yuk Hui’s concept of cosmotechnics, and on the other, the transductive theory of systems outlined in the Deleuzoguattarian Thousand Plateaus. A new reading of a marginal thread of the latter, i.e., the universe of technical objects associated with the nomadism of the Great Steppe of the Bronze and Iron Ages, leads to the crystallization of the concept of chaosmotechnics, according to which the substrate of technical activities is the contingency of the cosmos. Answering the question of locality, the chaosmotechnic perspective allows for the untimely emergence of an alternative cosmology of the contemporary digital image from nomadic metal technical objects. Key-words: cosmos, technology, art, digital image, Witold Gombrowicz, Yuk Hui, Gilbert Simondon, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Laura U. Marks","PeriodicalId":36912,"journal":{"name":"Czas Kultury","volume":"11 20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141335252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article discusses the operation of a grassroots pro-refugee initiative that has been active since the 2015 migration crisis. The author answers questions about why the grassroots initiative, which has no formal structures or external funding, has lasted so long, and analyzes its structure and mechanisms for effective interaction and cooperation with the local environment. The initiative is embedded in an existing local network, while drawing inspiration from the transnational activist movement. The author uses Adrienne Maree Brown’s notion of “pleasure activism,” David Graeber’s ethnographic descriptions of “anarchist groups operating by a consensus,” and ethnographic research of the initiative, which he conducted from September 2021 to July 2022. Key-words: pleasure activism, co-operation, local rootedness, friendship, consensual decision-making, refugees, grassroots pro-refugee collectives
{"title":"Aktywizm dający przyjemność: działanie na zasadzie wspólnej zgody, lokalne zakorzenienie i oddolne polityki integracyjne","authors":"Waldemar Rapior","doi":"10.61269/rned6122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.61269/rned6122","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the operation of a grassroots pro-refugee initiative that has been active since the 2015 migration crisis. The author answers questions about why the grassroots initiative, which has no formal structures or external funding, has lasted so long, and analyzes its structure and mechanisms for effective interaction and cooperation with the local environment. The initiative is embedded in an existing local network, while drawing inspiration from the transnational activist movement. The author uses Adrienne Maree Brown’s notion of “pleasure activism,” David Graeber’s ethnographic descriptions of “anarchist groups operating by a consensus,” and ethnographic research of the initiative, which he conducted from September 2021 to July 2022. Key-words: pleasure activism, co-operation, local rootedness, friendship, consensual decision-making, refugees, grassroots pro-refugee collectives","PeriodicalId":36912,"journal":{"name":"Czas Kultury","volume":"14 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141334964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The author outlines the concepts of ecocritical regionalism and eco-parenesis. The aim is to highlight selected new literary phenomena related to the awareness of the ecological crisis and to attempt their preliminary characterization. Referring to the notion of parenesis, which is rooted in culture, as well as more recent phenomena from the borderline between literary studies and other disciplines, the author points out the operational capacity of such categories as the eco-regional novel and, above all, the eco-parenetic novel. The work discussed more extensively in the article, Dom Oriona [Orion’s House] by Julia Fiedorczuk, serves as an example of this type of novel. Key-words: ecoparaenesis, ecocritical regionalism, literary studies, Julia Fiedorczuk
{"title":"Ekopareneza. Rozpoznania wstępne","authors":"Dagmara Tomczyk","doi":"10.61269/nopm4426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.61269/nopm4426","url":null,"abstract":"The author outlines the concepts of ecocritical regionalism and eco-parenesis. The aim is to highlight selected new literary phenomena related to the awareness of the ecological crisis and to attempt their preliminary characterization. Referring to the notion of parenesis, which is rooted in culture, as well as more recent phenomena from the borderline between literary studies and other disciplines, the author points out the operational capacity of such categories as the eco-regional novel and, above all, the eco-parenetic novel. The work discussed more extensively in the article, Dom Oriona [Orion’s House] by Julia Fiedorczuk, serves as an example of this type of novel. Key-words: ecoparaenesis, ecocritical regionalism, literary studies, Julia Fiedorczuk","PeriodicalId":36912,"journal":{"name":"Czas Kultury","volume":"1 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141335030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article discusses the conflicts created by the expansion of the shrimp industry on the island of Puná in Ecuador and its consequences: the destruction of hundreds of thousands of hectares of mangroves and the landlessness of the island’s communities. The purpose of the text is to show how the principle of community in this particular context becomes a strategy for defending the territory, and thus an alternative to the island’s current extractivist, capitalist development model. Key-words: Puná Island, shrimp industry, extractivism, Ecuadorian communities, mangroves
{"title":"Strategie kulturowe i wspólnotowe wobec ekstraktywistycznego przemysłu krewetkowego na wyspie Puná w Ekwadorze","authors":"Luis Páez von Lippke, Pablo Vargas Hidalgo","doi":"10.61269/efxn3679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.61269/efxn3679","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the conflicts created by the expansion of the shrimp industry on the island of Puná in Ecuador and its consequences: the destruction of hundreds of thousands of hectares of mangroves and the landlessness of the island’s communities. The purpose of the text is to show how the principle of community in this particular context becomes a strategy for defending the territory, and thus an alternative to the island’s current extractivist, capitalist development model. Key-words: Puná Island, shrimp industry, extractivism, Ecuadorian communities, mangroves","PeriodicalId":36912,"journal":{"name":"Czas Kultury","volume":"6 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141335327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Financialization is “a pattern of accumulation in which profits accrue primarily through financial channels rather than through trade and commodity production”. The expansion of the financial sector is enabled by a credit money mechanism that takes on a fictitious character. As a result, financialization leads to the reproduction of social inequality and the subordination of individual behavior to the logic of financial markets. According to critics of the process, local culture is being destroyed by credit money. In this paper, the author points to the social basis of financialization by demonstrating the ways in which local communities produce money – personalizing it and creating its meaning based on debt relationships. He illustrates the influence of culture on money using the example of microfinance and its criticism. Finally, the author proposes a different perspective on financialization, which – by combining the mutual influence of culture and money – allows for changing the categories of thinking about contemporary sources of locality and the divide between the global and the local. Key-words: financialization, microfinance, money theory, credit money, debt relationships, local communities
{"title":"Finansjeryzacja lokalności i kulturowe spojrzenie na pieniądz finansowy","authors":"M. Górka","doi":"10.61269/esrb7582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.61269/esrb7582","url":null,"abstract":"Financialization is “a pattern of accumulation in which profits accrue primarily through financial channels rather than through trade and commodity production”. The expansion of the financial sector is enabled by a credit money mechanism that takes on a fictitious character. As a result, financialization leads to the reproduction of social inequality and the subordination of individual behavior to the logic of financial markets. According to critics of the process, local culture is being destroyed by credit money. In this paper, the author points to the social basis of financialization by demonstrating the ways in which local communities produce money – personalizing it and creating its meaning based on debt relationships. He illustrates the influence of culture on money using the example of microfinance and its criticism. Finally, the author proposes a different perspective on financialization, which – by combining the mutual influence of culture and money – allows for changing the categories of thinking about contemporary sources of locality and the divide between the global and the local. Key-words: financialization, microfinance, money theory, credit money, debt relationships, local communities","PeriodicalId":36912,"journal":{"name":"Czas Kultury","volume":"7 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141335296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The purpose of this article is to answer questions related to the value of work in post-modern society. We answer questions about what good work is and what values are attributed to it, based on material elicited during anthropological fieldwork and interviews with employees of the Katowice Steelworks. We pose the above questions in the context of the labor crisis associated with the compromising of indicators that determine development, such as productivity and GDP. Having identified the value of labor, we present in the article the crises it is experiencing and possible directions for its transformation. Key-words: labor, Katowice Steelworks, anthropology of labor, transformation, working class
{"title":"Praca w Hucie Katowice. Próba antropologii na rzecz zmiany","authors":"Jessica Kufa, Agnieszka Karpiel","doi":"10.61269/ecda7711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.61269/ecda7711","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this article is to answer questions related to the value of work in post-modern society. We answer questions about what good work is and what values are attributed to it, based on material elicited during anthropological fieldwork and interviews with employees of the Katowice Steelworks. We pose the above questions in the context of the labor crisis associated with the compromising of indicators that determine development, such as productivity and GDP. Having identified the value of labor, we present in the article the crises it is experiencing and possible directions for its transformation. Key-words: labor, Katowice Steelworks, anthropology of labor, transformation, working class","PeriodicalId":36912,"journal":{"name":"Czas Kultury","volume":"10 48","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141335316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article analyzes the category of genius loci in the context of contemporary plant studies. It aims to restore the ancient term’s connotations related to nature and to use the idea of the “soul of a place” to rethink local, site-specific interspecies relations. The author reinterprets the notion of “soul” and conducts a comparative analysis of Michael Marder’s Plant-Thinking and Tadeusz Sławek’s essays on genius loci, which helps to outline the similarities and differences between the post-phenomenological approach of the authors in question and New-Materialist accounts of relationality. Key-words: genius loci, plant studies, interspecies, soul of plants, soul of place, nature of brownfields
{"title":"Roślinne dusze miejsc. O genius loci w kontekście critical plant studies","authors":"Joanna Soćko","doi":"10.61269/fffy5934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.61269/fffy5934","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes the category of genius loci in the context of contemporary plant studies. It aims to restore the ancient term’s connotations related to nature and to use the idea of the “soul of a place” to rethink local, site-specific interspecies relations. The author reinterprets the notion of “soul” and conducts a comparative analysis of Michael Marder’s Plant-Thinking and Tadeusz Sławek’s essays on genius loci, which helps to outline the similarities and differences between the post-phenomenological approach of the authors in question and New-Materialist accounts of relationality. Key-words: genius loci, plant studies, interspecies, soul of plants, soul of place, nature of brownfields","PeriodicalId":36912,"journal":{"name":"Czas Kultury","volume":"2 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141335158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article discusses the problem of idiomaticity in Bernard Stiegler’s philosophy, showing the connection between the emergence of “idiomatic difference” and what became known as anti-entropy in his late works. In turn, the conditions under which such difference is possible are closely related to the problem of locality. The article shows how idiom can emerge in the localized conditions of a linguistic community, and why it can be considered a key concept in the possibility of developing Stiegler’s project of neganthropology. Key-words: idiom, idiomaticity, idiomatic difference, idiolect
{"title":"Lokalność lub wyłanianie się idiomu","authors":"Noel Fitzpatrick","doi":"10.61269/xhuo3393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.61269/xhuo3393","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the problem of idiomaticity in Bernard Stiegler’s philosophy, showing the connection between the emergence of “idiomatic difference” and what became known as anti-entropy in his late works. In turn, the conditions under which such difference is possible are closely related to the problem of locality. The article shows how idiom can emerge in the localized conditions of a linguistic community, and why it can be considered a key concept in the possibility of developing Stiegler’s project of neganthropology. Key-words: idiom, idiomaticity, idiomatic difference, idiolect","PeriodicalId":36912,"journal":{"name":"Czas Kultury","volume":"9 23","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141335210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article discusses an attempt to translate the theoretical language of Bernard Stiegler and his concept of neganthropology into practical activities carried out in the Polish reality of local governments. The text presents the concept of establishing an Inter-Territorial Institute of New Economies as a way of carrying out co-creative research in the context of energy transformation and labor automation, with a particular focus on Silesia and Zagłębie Dąbrowskie. Key-words: neganthropology, neganthropocene, Bernard Stiegler, entropy, civic revolution, political economy
{"title":"Przez negantropologię do obywatelskiej rewolucji w lokalnościach","authors":"Michał Krzykawski","doi":"10.61269/qrrg1144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.61269/qrrg1144","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses an attempt to translate the theoretical language of Bernard Stiegler and his concept of neganthropology into practical activities carried out in the Polish reality of local governments. The text presents the concept of establishing an Inter-Territorial Institute of New Economies as a way of carrying out co-creative research in the context of energy transformation and labor automation, with a particular focus on Silesia and Zagłębie Dąbrowskie. Key-words: neganthropology, neganthropocene, Bernard Stiegler, entropy, civic revolution, political economy","PeriodicalId":36912,"journal":{"name":"Czas Kultury","volume":"8 35","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141335045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Using a number of photographs from various records (private archives, the press, discarded photographs) and the recollections of the inhabitants of Bęsia (Olsztyn county), the author examines unusual depictions of the daily life of employees working at the state farms (known as PGRs), for whom the palace-state farm was of great importance. The inhabiting, settling, or “reclaiming” processes observed in this Warmian village took place in the realm of what was East Prussian, post-German, and formerly manorial, while simultaneously going against both the grange and state farm (official) scripts of palace use. The case study of the palace-state farm in Bęsia is also a contribution to the study of the history of potential state farms, as understood by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay. Key-words: state farms, East Prussia, Warmia, potential history, folk history
{"title":"Mikrogesty i historie potencjalne. Pałac-pegeer w Bęsi","authors":"Justyna Szklarczyk","doi":"10.61269/qbky2057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.61269/qbky2057","url":null,"abstract":"Using a number of photographs from various records (private archives, the press, discarded photographs) and the recollections of the inhabitants of Bęsia (Olsztyn county), the author examines unusual depictions of the daily life of employees working at the state farms (known as PGRs), for whom the palace-state farm was of great importance. The inhabiting, settling, or “reclaiming” processes observed in this Warmian village took place in the realm of what was East Prussian, post-German, and formerly manorial, while simultaneously going against both the grange and state farm (official) scripts of palace use. The case study of the palace-state farm in Bęsia is also a contribution to the study of the history of potential state farms, as understood by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay. Key-words: state farms, East Prussia, Warmia, potential history, folk history","PeriodicalId":36912,"journal":{"name":"Czas Kultury","volume":"9 21","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141335212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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