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On the Media Accomplishing Pedagogical Utopia and on the Media Accomplishing Eugenic Utopia; on Two Anthropotechniques: the Humanistic and the Post-humanistic One

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Chyla W.

Przegląd Kulturoznawczy

2006

vol. 1

issue 1

40-53

The study formulates and develops the thesis of mankind transiting from the humanistic period of implementing pedagogical utopia, of shaping and perfecting the spirit, into the post-humanistic periods of implementing merely the eugenic utopia: of technological automatic support to the biologically and culturally inherited species accomplishments of human body and spirit, achieved, so far, by means of humanistic education. The author continues by implying that this transition into the human implementation of a new utopia takes place without any decision-making and reflection, and only in relation to the emergence of tele-technology and biotechnology, imposing the automation of the functioning of these or other aspects of the spirituality and corporality of man by tearing apart his psychosomatic /species and personal/ unity. When assuming that technological audiovisual media globally implement tele-technology, the study claims them to be pioneer in the process of transitioning from one utopia into another. In his reasoning the author refers to the achievements of contemporary philosophy (Heidegger, Slöterdijk, Klossowski, Deleuze, Baudrillard, Stiegler, Dufour).

Culture of Media and Superheroes: a Serial Killer and a Kamikaze Terrorist. The analysis of the pathology of the sacrificing exchange disturbed by modern techno-mercantilism.

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Chyla W.

Przegląd Kulturoznawczy

2007

vol. 1

issue 2

32-41

The emergence of technological screen media 'the triumph of obsessive constructions over reason', made it possible for individuals commonly 'reversing the relation between the thought (language) and the imagination (vision, image)', to share this experience with other cinema lovers, TV viewers, Internet surfers, in other words - all of us. Thanks to the screen media, an individual and phantasmal character of anomaly and obsession, has gained a common stereotype which focuses particularly on two techno-medial superheroes of our times: a serial killer and a kamikaze terrorist, both anachronistic in their lonely struggle for the divine value of absolute sovereignty whose deficit has been introduced into culture by techno-mercantilism with the use of its techno-communicative arms: i.e. programming experience and an event in order to transfer them into its market offers. Through a detailed analysis of statements included in the writings of such philosophers as Heidegger, Klossowski, Bataille, Girard, and Baudrillard, the author demonstrates that in the victorious mercantilism (dominating contemporary culture), the political economy (of over-production, over-consumption, and, in effect, of infinite accumulation) is drawn apart from the sacrificing economy (consisting in overcoming deficiencies and surpluses by means of redistribution and symbolic disappearance of accumulation). What falls victim here is the 'image of man defined as being traditional and worthy'; of man being individualized by means of identity and symbolism and also speciesised by culture; existing-towards-death and in symbolic unity with the dead ancestors.

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On the Media Accomplishing Pedagogical Utopia and on the Media Accomplishing Eugenic Utopia; on Two Anthropotechniques: the Humanistic and the Post-humanistic One

Culture of Media and Superheroes: a Serial Killer and a Kamikaze Terrorist. The analysis of the pathology of the sacrificing exchange disturbed by modern techno-mercantilism.