Personifikacje maszyn abstrakcyjnych

• Authors: Jan Potkański

Title variants

EN

PERSONIFICATIONS OF ABSTRACT MACHINES

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article presents an analysis of a cultural images of mechanical or half-mechanical, anthropomorphic monsters such as cyborgs, as allegories of fears connected with the more and more important role of financial corporations in contemporary economy and politics. Similarly to Hobbes’s vision in which the state was depicted as a giant human being synthesised from many individuals, so for the contemporary imagination a corporation – controlled by computers rather than humans – becomes a giant cyborg. Literary or cinematic presentations of artificial pseudo-humans threatening the “real“ humanity should be interpreted as equivalent of journalistic discourse, in which corporations, as legal entities (hence “artificial”) started to pose threat to the freedom of individuals (“natural”).

Keywords

EN

ABSTRACT MACHINES; ANTHROPOMORPHIC MONSTERS; CYBORGS

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Bielsko-Bialski
• Journal: Świat i Słowo
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1(18)
• Pages: 167-175

Dates

published

2012-10

Contributors

author

Jan Potkański

• Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Polonistyki, Krakowski Przedmieście 26/28, 00-937 Warszawa

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