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ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura

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2013

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issue 2(27) dialogi kina (pod gościnną redakcją Alicji Helman)

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Er(r)go… , … from a marketplace fair to Parnassus—the uniqueness of the paradoxical art of cinema: independent and monologic in its own way, speaking in its inimitable voice, and yet submerged in dialogicity, dependent and synthetic, greedy and incapable of existing without a dialogue with other arts or with its own interiority. Innumerable trajectories and spaces of this dialogue, sometimes unsuccessful or pretended, sometimes immoral, but unsurpassable by any other art form. The dialogue with the creations of centuries of artistic genius: with literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, music (vide sometimes undeserved labels: “pictures awoken to life,” “animated painting,” “visual music,” “music of pictures,” “architecture in motion”); the dialogue with video, performance, avant-garde theatre, “electronic painting,” with technologies of the future; the dialogue between the high and the low of culture. The social dialogue, here without the guarantee of safety: the guise of dialogue may mask an ideological and cultural monologue. Hence the dialogue with the society, but also a manipulative shaping of social consciousness or even agitation propaganda; the dialogue with other cultures, but also the “violence” of westernization on different cultures; the dialogue with the other and the alien, but also allocating them a place at the margins and projecting schemata of prejudices; the dialogue with censorship, sometimes bordering on flirtation. The dialogue with ideology, dialogue with power, dialogue with tradition, with the possible and the impossible, with utopia and dystopia, with chaos and order. The dialogue with time—inside its own cinematic reality, but also with the past and the future, with memory, nostalgia and history, the dialogue of heritage with the present, of avant-garde with tradition. The hidden dialogue with the outside of the picture: with what is “veiled” beyond the screen, with the space outside the frame, with the eye, the imagination and awareness of the spectator, with the body, with the relation between the pictures hidden in the interstice of the cut, with other possible worlds, with the projected though invisible observer. And finally, the dialogue with the impossibility of dialogue. Dialogues of Cinema is an Er(r)go issue guest-edited by Alicja Helman, to whom—on behalf of the entire editorial board—I extend my gratitude.

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ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura

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2013

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issue 1(26) autorytet/hierarchia/wpływ (pod gościnną redakcją Lecha Witkowskiego)

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ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura

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2014

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issue 2(29) lęki cywilizacji

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Er(r)go… , … civilization—progress and order—as a source of fear. Paradoxically, civilization protects us from fear, eliminating threats that originate in nature, but at the same time it amplifies fear, giving birth to its own breed of threats. Having tamed the perilous forces of nature, man faces perils that come from his own works and ideology; every effort towards reaching an equilibrium generates new fractures and cracks, dense with anxiety, terror and fear. Errgo, disorientation, instability, a spiral fall into the naked life, homo anxius between a “grim science of nature” and “creationist fear” congealed into melancholy; man as an outcast of foster-mother nature, the tender guardian of other creatures, and at the same time, a joyful celebration of Marx. Shortage and surplus, wine and Freud’s vinegar. Heidegger’s fear and dread: dread as an ontological framework of fear—“that in the face of which we fear,” “fear itself” and “fearing for.” How is the fore-structure of understanding related to Angst? Alarm, dread and terror. Being-in-the-world as an escape from the inevitability of existence into fear? Unheimlich. Fear and anxiety, the narcissist reflex of panicking: when the object of fear is missing, fear transforms into anxiety. Thus Kierkegaard: nothingness, the source of possibility of possibility as the origin of fear – in the face of the abyss of choice. Should we, therefore, run from fear or wisely come to face it? And why do we constantly have to change masks? Is authenticity a form of a spectacle? Here appears the menacing object a. A perfect doppelganger emerges in the mirror: bliss and excremental identification; the structure of a mirror reflection as the formula of contemporary nihilism. Anxiety, castration, the castration wound, the added jouissance and the access to bliss—the doppelganger holds the key to that bliss. The necessity of bliss as the sole principle of the power of the over-Self and the resultant omnipresent fear. The crowd and raising fear—the playful vibration of community. The regimes of Führers. Adolf Hitler, enfant terrible, playing with blocks—sublime poetic moments. Utopian thinking as a perverse intellectual game of transforming fear into the semblances of collective love. Dewey’s ecology and the pastoral fears of the neopragmatists; somaaesthetics and that which is beyond human. Textuality, literature as the philosophy’s Other and the fear’s of Rorty’s liberal ironist. The fear of technology, the paranoid neo-luddism, the Apocalypse of St. John and conspiracy theories. “We are all terrorists!” ? Zombie, zombie, zombie.

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ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura

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2015

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issue 1(30) czeska teoria literatury (pod gościnną redakcją Libora Martinka)

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Er(r)go..., Czech literary theory, thus a return to possible worlds. Fictionality and narration. The relations sign—world, sign—interpreter, and between them, the question of fiction. Fiction as an extension of childhood games in adulthood? Can we escape our language? One world, or many worlds? Total worlds, or small ones? Actuality or possibility? And, as a result, a conclusion: fictional existence is not uniform, “to exist fictionally, means to exist in many ways, many systems and on many levels” (Doležel). And how does Mukařovský respond to this? The Prague School? Ingarden? Intentional reality and a transcendental one; quasi-reality, the depicted world and the question of reference, “the context of the outside world” (Vodička). The literary reality as a sign referring to the real reality; ontological integrity of the world, and the reality of a “conceived world.” Mixed worlds. Heterocosmica. Thus, on the one hand all the created worlds and the autonomy of the work of literature, and on the other hand, the work’s normativity and performativity aimed at the real world. In the service of political correctness as well? Thus a vindication of mimesis in the context of possible worlds. Pseudomimesis as an imitation of fiction; the submerging of fiction in reality; denaturalisation of fiction. A character as a place for imitation—submitting to the effects of fiction. Barthes doubled. The reader and the character as sleepwalkers of literature. Mukařovský once again – mereologically and holistically, thus the parts and relations, and as a result – structure. Yet first Leibnitz and the relations between structured wholes and their parts, Smuts’ holism and the whole as a generalised structure of reality. Mukařovský’s structures as a synthesis of mereological and holistic thinking with Hegelian idealism. And finally, more particular matters, Czech and non-Czech: internal monologue in Czech narrative literature, new media, the Internet, World Wide Web, e-mail, sms, and the Check literary discourse, post-ethnic America and the interventional discourse of post-colonialism, and raping Beckett. The present issue is guest edited by professor Libor Martinek from the Silesian University in Opava and the University of Wrocław.

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ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura

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2012

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issue 1-2(24-25) interiory/eksteriory (pod gościnną redakcją Zbigniewa Białasa i Pawła Jędrzejki)

7-8

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Er(r)go…, ... it is time to look into the interior(s), although the concept itself seems almost shameful nowadays, evoking the specters of binarity. Let us look, nevertheless, heedless of the phobias of theory. Inside a museum which does not exist, then inside the casket interior of the seventeenth century catalogue of the cabinet of curiosities. And deeper, into the space between the object and its catalogue description, where the Curious is created. And, a little further, other interiors. The authoritarian interior of a gothic cathedral, the essence of the dogmatic and the transcendental, appropriated by the Victorian museum as a didactic and educational illustration of the majesty of knowledge. The interior of the Word, this “catalogue of catalogues”; the interior of the Library – Universum; and finally, the oxymoronic interior of the Web. The interior of a head without the interior, or the phonograph amongst Bushmen. The incarcerating interior of a paralyzed body and the interior of time as a ubiquitous labyrinth. The somatic act of cognition: the interior of the imperial space and the traveler’s body that infiltrates it; thus, the interior as the necessary condition for the other, the alien, and the alien other. The elusive interior of a woman as a mask; the exterior of a skeletal woman as a bodily shell. The interior of the self as the cognitive and ethical space of choice and responsibility. The interior of the consumerized vegetation in the media-framed reality as the ersatz of the interior existence. The interior of the Manuscript as a polyphony of voices and a riddle about the nature of reality. The interior as the essence of the Gothic; the gothic interior as the interior of the mind; the interior of the crypt as a space between the other interior and the exterior. The interior of this issue as the intellectual interiors exteriorizing the necessity of exploring interiors. And also Amiri Baraka in the interior of Ars Cameralis Silesiae Superioris. Interiors-Exteriors is a double issue of Er(r)go guest-edited by Zbigniew Białas and Paweł Jędrzejko from the Institute of English Cultures and Literatures of the University of Silesia.

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ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura

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2014

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issue 1(28) konteksty ekokrytyki

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Er(r)go… , … ecology, ecocriticism, ecophilosophy, political ecology, ecological ethics, the memory of the Earth, non-human or rather more-than-human sisters and brothers. Thus, not in the exact order: fading now away into the past, the voyeuristic, disembodied subject, the Self unconscious of its body, but holding the exterior under its perceptual control; instead, a subject inevitably “contaminated” with the exteriority of nature and technology. The abolition of the nature-culture dichotomy. Ecological disasters and the moral panic, the rationing of blame, deconstruction of the technological, the hazards of ecological awareness and the narrations of guilt and responsibility. The freaks of nature and the experience of the curiosity when nature strays from its path; controlled transgression, the fallen mind, the sharpening of intellect, monstrosities and methodological regime, curiosities as methodological tools and Bacon’s rejuvenation of natural philosophy. Literary Darwinists and new positivism, biologically determined culture; culture stripped of its autonomy by natural phenomena. Literature as a means of adaptation and survival; cultural constructivism and evolutionary psychology as a bridge between culture and nature; The Iliad as a tragedy of naked apes; mind or brain, vulgar reductionism and a procession of banalities. Ecopoetry and ecopoetics, nature and destiny, the sound and the fury of civilization, identification with nature, the eschatology of civilizational calamity. The Indian as the Man before the Fall, the footprints of the chieftain and the laws of ethics, the exile from Paradise and the reconciliation in the City of Brotherly Love. The Earth as the beneficiary of postmodernism, the forgetting of nature and the creation of the world, the anthropocentrism of religion and the equality of all creation, silence and Logos, poetic phenomenology, the bird song and the creator concealed in creation. The Self as an entity among other entities, the substance of language and the substance of the world, the transparent eye and the eye of Roentgen. The politics of nature as an oxymoron. The animal as the substance of art and as person, the moral avant-garde of an artist, transspecies communication, the killing of objects. The suffering of animals. The present issue of Er(r)go was prepared under the caring supervision of Marzena Kubisz and Anna Chromik, to whom, on behalf of the Editorial board, I extend our expression of gratitude.

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ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura

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2011

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issue 1-2(22-23) konteksty anglistyki

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Er(r)go …, on English studies. And so we submerge into our own spring—since Er(r)go emerged from English studies—and then we follow the arms, the tributaries, the tides. Thus the substantiation of the intellectual mood of the times of the early onset of cultural studies; on the one hand, once a forbidden fruit, on the other, anxieties and fears: it could mean the loss of cultural identity and identity of literary studies; could mean dangerous Marxism, could mean losing aesthetic values and diffusion in egalitarianism. And a related problem: what is the role of English philologists—professionals in promoting foreign culture and foreign language—towards linguistic identity of their nation? Are they sinking the national ship (that’s Sienkiewicz) pumping in linguistic contamination instead of pumping it out, or are they helping the ship to stay afloat on the stormy seas of change? Thus, the ambivalent myth of the English philologist. The English philologist as Robinson Crusoe on an island overgrown with different contexts, Polish and not Polish. And, of course, the problems of translation. The translator as the third element—the mediator between two realities, which do not yield to mediation; subjectivity in translation and the translator’s leap of faith. Desubjectification and the translation industry; a mass fraud. What is there to read, if fools and rogues create reading lists? Thus the fundamental question of canon: equality or elitism? The canon as the foundation and the emanation of identify. Thus away with Dead White European Males! But will the Zulu give us Tolstoy? At least there remains Marquise de Sade’s pornology, but apart from that “nothing, an empty space of the impossibility of identification.” Humanist education as possible salvation? But of what kind? Right-winged, or the search for the only truth, or left-winged, the shaping of intellectual independence? And here the English philologist calls upon Rorty and chooses a compromise, albeit not without hesitations, tensions and polemics. English as Latin of today? The present issue was prepared under the supervision of Leszek Drong

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Między kulturami: cultural studies a konteksty ideologiczne

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ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura

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2011

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issue 1-2(22-23) konteksty anglistyki

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The current interest in cultural studies marks a departure from a period characterised by immanent approaches to the literary work, i.e., those approaches which abstracted it from external cultural contexts. Over the last few decades in Poland the foci of cultural studies have been considerably different from those which have motivated British or American scholars. This essay aims at highlighting the reasons for those differences: they include geographical, historical and ethnic factors. Also, more importantly, the ideological motivation for the research in the field cannot be directly transplanted in Poland which used to suffer from a communist oppression and thus is radically skeptical of any intellectual developments inspired by marxism. Finally, the process of translating the scope and meaning of anglophone cultural studies into Polish academic reality may constitute a good opportunity for axiological reflection concerning the necessity of retaining evaluation standards in our culture.

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Inte/gracja a granice dyscypliny

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Postscriptum Polonistyczne

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2012

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