Recykling a kultura

• Authors: Marek Kulisz

Title variants

EN

Recycling and Culture - summary

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Marek Kulisz Recycling and Culture - summary The essay is an attempt to analyze the ways in which it may be possible to talk about recycling in culture. Contrary to recycling, the word culture has a long and complicated history, and it is used nowadays in a number of different me­anings. Two of these meanings are taken into consideration here. Expressions such as "recycling of culture" and "culture of recycling" will be comprehen­sible if the word "culture" is used in its broadest sense, i.e. the one in which anthropologists use it when they speak of the nature-culture opposition. In this context recycling is simply part of culture, because - though recycling is modeled on natural phenomena - it is certainly not a natural process; it is a series of carefully planned activities involving state-of-the-art technology. We cannot, however, talk in a sensible way about recycling in culture if we take the word culture in its narrow sense, as the so-called high culture, becau­se culture understood this way does not produce waste. There are no societies that would be willing to dismiss any of their great artists of the past and con­sider their works of art as waste.

EN

Marek Kulisz Recycling and Culture - summary The essay is an attempt to analyze the ways in which it may be possible to talk about recycling in culture. Contrary to recycling, the word culture has a long and complicated history, and it is used nowadays in a number of different me­anings. Two of these meanings are taken into consideration here. Expressions such as "recycling of culture" and "culture of recycling" will be comprehen­sible if the word "culture" is used in its broadest sense, i.e. the one in which anthropologists use it when they speak of the nature-culture opposition. In this context recycling is simply part of culture, because - though recycling is modeled on natural phenomena - it is certainly not a natural process; it is a series of carefully planned activities involving state-of-the-art technology. We cannot, however, talk in a sensible way about recycling in culture if we take the word culture in its narrow sense, as the so-called high culture, becau­se culture understood this way does not produce waste. There are no societies that would be willing to dismiss any of their great artists of the past and con­sider their works of art as waste.

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w Katowicach / Śląsk Sp. z o.o. Wydawnictwo Naukowe
• Journal: ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura
• Year: 2007
• Issue: 14

Dates

published

2007-01-01

Contributors

author

Marek Kulisz