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Bez lęku (przed wpływem)? Na marginesie Oka potwora Jacka Dukaja

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Brzostek D.
Literatura i Kultura Popularna
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2014
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vol. 20
Dariusz Brzostek
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This article focuses on the intertextuality of Jacek Dukaj’s novel Oko potwora [The Eye of the Monster] and its relations to Stanisław Lem’s novel Eden. The autor uses Harold Bloom’s theory of the anxiety of influence to examine Lem’s influence on Dukaj’s work (Dukaj as “the strong poet” and Lem as “the precursor”). The question is, could Jacek Dukaj be the author of “real power,” who can inevitably “misread” his precursor’s work in order to make room for his own, fresh imaginings. The next problem is the condition of the poetic of influence in the genre of science fiction, which contains mostly the simple formula stories (basic plots, themes, characters, time and spatial setting).
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Gdzie kończy się literatura? Głos Pana i Golem XIV — Stanisława Lema „resztki (po) powieści”

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Literatura i Kultura Popularna
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2017
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vol. 23
39-50
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The paper discusses the literary works of Polish science fiction writer — Stanisław Lem, particulary two of his late novels: His Master’s Voice (1968) and Golem XIV (1981). The essay focuses on the relics of a novel in these non-narrative works, including the lectures of an artificial intelligence (Golem XIV) and scientific essays on the first contact between humans and alien life form (His Master’s Voice). A subject of the paper is the psychoanalysis of the creative process and the reading of the relics of a novel such as a description (as a pattern of development) or a found-manuscript device in terms of Lacanian theory of the symptom and the theory of jouissance of the speaking subject (parlêtre).
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Fikcja antropologiczna czy antropologia spekulatywna? O funkcjach poznawczych narracji fantastycznonaukowych

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Brzostek D.
Prace Kulturoznawcze
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2019
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vol. 23
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issue 2-3
41-58
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The article focuses on the referential function of science fiction and its relations to speculative anthropology and anthropological fiction. The methodological context for this analysis consists of Andrzej Stoff’s concept of literary images in science-fiction novels, Fredric Jameson’s archaeology of the future, and Roman Jakobson’s theory of the referential function of language. The texts analyzed herein are two novels: by Stanisław Lem (Solaris) and Peter Watts (Blindsight). These works are analyzed as procedurals — novels emphasizing sequences of scientific (anthropological) procedures and discussing cultural categories such as “otherness,” “race,” and “anthropocentrism.”
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Technologia aktu poetyckiego. Uwagi na marginesie Poezji eksperymentalnej Jacquesa Donguy’a

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Przegląd Kulturoznawczy
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2014
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issue 1(19)
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Recenzja:J. Donguy, Poezja eksperymentalna. Epoka cyfrowa (1953-2007), przeł. M. Madej, Gdańsk 2014
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Przyszłość nauki, przyszłość uniwersytetu. Fantastycznonaukowe prognozy zaniku wiedzy naukowej

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Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka
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2016
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issue 28
13-33
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The predictions of science fiction play an important part in the cultural landscape of contemporary western culture, being integral to the popular culture (novels, movies, TV series, graphic novels). Science fiction narratives predict the future of society, technology, culture but also – the science itself and a university as a scientific institution. The aim of this work is to shed light on the depiction of the future of science, knowledge, and university in the science fiction works, predicting the ineluctable societal collapse. The essay focuses on the use of the scientific discourse and scientific knowledge in the chosen science fiction narratives by Stanisław Lem, Walter M. Miller jr., John Brunner, and Paolo Bacigalupi.
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Lęk przed maszyną i lęk (z) maszyny. Sztuczna inteligencja i technolęki Stanisława Lema

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Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka
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2018
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vol. 101
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issue 2
13-24
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The article is devoted to technofears – complex and diverse fears of technology, which undergo conceptualization, are analysed in terms of problems they may cause and are visualized in the works of Stanisław Lem. Three basic issues have been analysed. Firstly, Lem’s anxiety related to predictions of civilizational development, present in his studies and late opinion journalism. Secondly, fear of progress that is ever-present in his works (particularly of: a machine, technology, robotics, and artificial intelligence), haunting an individual and humanity in nearer or further future. Thirdly, fears felt by machines depicted in his works as personified literary characters (robots, artificial intelligence). The concluding part includes a question about extreme, identity-related dimension of fear, which, also in reference to artificial intelligence, turns out to be, at least in the works of Solaris’ author, a fundamental existential experience required for the creation of a subject – person.
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Entomologia rock and rolla. Owady i rewolucja elektroniczna w muzyce popularnej

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Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka
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2021
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vol. 114
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issue 2
120-133
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The aim of this article is to analyse the relationship between bioacoustics, electronic sound production, and popular music. The electronic revolution in music production in the mid-1960s, inspired by the invention of electronic musical instruments for sound synthesis (Moog, Buchla, ARP Odyssey), was given a prominent place not only in the academic avant-garde laboratories but also in the popular music market, resulting in the emergence of new musical genres and challenging the classical instruments of rock music (guitar, bass, drums). However, abstract electronic sounds and sound-objects ‘discovered’ by rock and roll artists inevitably required new points of reference transcending beyond the existing canon (blues – classical music). One of them was to imitate (through synthesisers) or employ (through bioacoustic recordings) the sounds of insects as adequate equivalents of the ‘sound masses’ generated by electronic instruments and commonly used sound effects. It resulted in a significant re-evaluation of music production and the relationship between popular culture and avant-garde art.
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Zapętlona referencja. Konstruowanie archiwów dźwiękowych Antropocenu

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Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka
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2021
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vol. 113
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issue 1
146-157
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This article discusses ways of constructing sound archives by focusing on the relationship between what is to be archived and how. Rather than simply asking which medium to use and whether it is adequate for storing a certain type of information, the author ponders on another question: What if the possibility of storing data in itself is (or becomes) a certain form of primary information encoded in the archives of the Anthropocene? Consequently, the author does not focus only on sound collections – recordings of living creatures and products of civilisation. Instead he elaborates on methodological aspects that emerge in the process of making and archiving the audio representations of the Anthropocene, inspiring further epistemological questions and doubts. Seeking to resolve them, the author employs theoretical tools proposed by Bruno Latour, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari.
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Sherlock Holmes, maglownica i bezsensowny rytuał. Demoniczność (i) powtórzenia w popkulturze

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Brzostek D.
Literatura Ludowa
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2017
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issue 4-5
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The article focuses on the mechanism of repeating a formula in texts of popular culture and its relations to evoking the experience of the uncanny (uncheimlich) in the process of reception of popular narratives, both those alluding to the aesthetics of horror and those following other conventions (crime fiction, comedies, etc.). The essence of this experience is the audience’s discovery of (un-)expected repetitions of the same in something seemingly different, that is, an identical formula in a new, yet unknown, text. The methodological context for this analysis consists of J.G. Cawelti’s concept of formula, Freud’s theory of “the uncanny”, Harold Bloom’s concept of the anxiety of influence, and Frits Staal’s notion of “the meaningless ritual”. The texts analyzed herein are short stories by Stephen King, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Clive Barker as well as TV series Friends and Big Bang Theory.  
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Tematem artykułu jest mechanizm powtórzenia schematu w tekstach kultury popularnej oraz jego związki z wytwarzaniem przeżycia niesamowitego (uncheimlich, uncanny) w procesie odbioru popularnych narracji – zarówno tych odwołujących się do estetyki grozy, jak i tych realizujących inne konwencje (kryminalne, komediowe etc.). Istotą tego przeżycia staje się odkrycie przez odbiorcę (nie)oczekiwanych powtórzeń tego samego w pozornie innym – identycznego schematu w nowym, nieznanym jeszcze tekście. Kontekstem metodologicznym dla prowadzonej analizy są: koncepcja schematu J. G. Caweltiego, Freudowska teoria „niesamowitego”, pojęcie „lęku przed wpływem” Harolda Blooma oraz koncepcja „bezsensownego rytuału” Fritsa Staala. Analizowanymi przykładami stały się nowele Stephena Kinga, Arthura Conan Doyle’a, Clive’a Barkera oraz seriale telewizyjne Friends i Big Bang Theory.
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Praktyka grozy i praktyki narracyjne. Creepypasta: niesamowitości (w) sieci

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Brzostek D.
Literatura Ludowa
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2016
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issue 3
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PRACTICES OF THE GOTHIC AND NARRATIVE PRACTICE.CREEPYPASTA: THE OTHERWORLDINESS ON THE NET Creepypasta are “true otherworldly stories” spread on the Internet. To be more precise, these stories are characteristic of the contemporary urban folklore. They are referred to as “true stories” or “stories from life”. Their specificity consists in theircirculation (the Internet), their origins and dissemination (copy and paste), the material adapting themes from urban legends and rumors, and the preference for the fantastic and otherworldly. The article contains an analysis of the activity of “pl.creepypasta.wikia.com,”a Polish Internet portal, looking the engagement of its users in the context of the emergence of the institution of the author/editor of texts belonging to Internet folklore.
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Black Science – Black Magic. Czy afrofuturyzm jest narracją poznawczą

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Brzostek D.
Sztuka i Dokumentacja
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2016
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issue 14
28-37
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Afrofuturism plays an important part in the cultural landscape of contemporary american, african, and african-american culture, being integral to the popular culture also in other modern societies (afropean culture). Afrofuturism is, as Ytasha L. Womack wrote, “an intersection of imagination, technology, the future and liberation”. The aim of this work is to shed light on the depiction of science, art, culture and future in afrofuturism. The essay focuses on the use of scientific discourse in afrofuturistic narratives (novels, movies, graphic novels, musical works). The question is: Is afrofuturism also interpretive research and the critical theory of a culture?
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Od bajki (ludowej) do science fiction. Badania nad literaturą niewerystyczną na Uniwersytecie Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu

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Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Poetica
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2021
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vol. 9
38-56
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This article encompasses a historical and problem-based review of research on fantasy and the fantastic undertaken since the 1960s at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. It presents initial studies of non-veristic literature, so publications of Artur Hutnikiewicz on Stefan Grabiński, Andrzej Stoff on Stanisław Lem and Jan Mirosław Kasjan on the folk tale with magical components. While discussing the development of research on fantasy undertaken by next generations of scientists, the article also points to a shift in cultural studies, which started to undertake concepts such as media studies, film studies, literary and cultural comparative studies. This shift enriched the analyses with considerations on the reception of cultural texts, fandoms, digital games and the new media. It delineates new research directions and methodological tendencies that cross the borders of conventional literary studies that initiated the Toruń thought regarding fantasy.
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Artykuł zawiera historyczne i problemowe omówienie badań nad fantastyką i fantastycznością podejmowanych od lat sześćdziesiątych XX wieku na Uniwersytecie Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu. Przedstawione zostały początki studiów nad literaturą niewerystyczną, obejmujące prace Artura Hutnikiewicza o Stefanie Grabińskim, Andrzeja Stoffa o Stanisławie Lemie oraz Jana Mirosława Kasjana o ludowej bajce magicznej. W trakcie omówienia rozwoju badań fantastyki podejmowanych przez kolejne pokolenia naukowców zaprezentowany został także zwrot w kierunku studiów kulturoznawczych, podejmujących między innymi zagadnienia związane z medioznawstwem, filmoznawstwem oraz komparatystyką literacko-kulturową i wzbogacających refleksję o zagadnienia związane z problematyką odbioru tekstów kultury, fandomem, grami cyfrowymi oraz nowymi mediami. Zwrot ten wyznacza nowe kierunki badań tudzież tendencje metodologiczne, wykraczające poza tradycję literaturoznawczą, która zainicjowała toruński namysł nad fantastyką.
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