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In the present paper I discuss the problem of a hybrid as a concept, which started functioning on the borderlines between various discourses – in particular legal, media and post-colonial studies. Hence the term itself was appropriated as a textual concept – from the borderline with philosophy – by the institutional discourse that Michel Foucault would include into the sphere of bio-politics. Here I can see the danger of transferring the textual creation into the domain of biological sciences (hence the term that was transplanted from biology returns to it, changing its status from a fictitious one into the real one), and what follows – a hybrid becomes a problem of civilization and societies within which various institutions of bio-politics operate.
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The author presents a multi-level analysis of the meanings of Urszula Kozioł’s poem Non finito 1. The basic assumption underlying the interpretation is that the poem, which uses the dream conventions, could be explained with the use of Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytical terms. The aquatic metaphor of the waters and metaphoric womb is contrasted with a claustrophobic fear of enclosure in time which equals the necessity of accepting the passing of time.
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The author is searching for the spots or cracks through which concealed trauma reveals itself in The World by Miłosz, a text which most of the interpreters described as idyllic. Close reading of Miłosz’s text shows that it is driven by unconscious repression that works to conceal the symptoms of traumatic experience by covering them with a simulation of a house¬ sanctuary. Author is trying to re¬ read The World, paying close attention to these spots and the fact that the date closing the book – April 1943 – is not just an ironic point, but a mark of experience that could not be erased or repressed from memory. The author also points to the intertextual relation between The World and other Miłosz’s texts, and shows how by comparing different types of poetic imagery related to the same memory, one can depict the work of unconscious repression.
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Games and Utopia

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Acta Ludologica
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2018
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vol. 1
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issue 1
4-14
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The main theme of my article is the relationship between virtual worlds of video games and the concept of utopia. I aim to present a wide variety of different definitions and theories of utopia, which seem indispensable in order to further the relationship between video game and virtual reality research and the multitude of utopian studies discourses. The thesis starts with a short recollection of Alexander Galloway’s thesis on video games and utopias from his article on World of Warcraft which I am trying to supplement with some of the most interesting contemporary utopian studies research. The core of the article focuses on sketching an alternative proposal which includes a variety of definitions of utopia and utopianism. My aim is to introduce precise and useful notions which could be further utilized in game analysis and game research.
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