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Rehabilitacja ducha

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Kuźniarz B.

ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura

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2003

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issue 6

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Bartosz Kuźniarz “The Rehabilitation of the Spirit” Drawing from the elements of Niklas Luhmann’s theory, the article analyses cultural communication as the foundation of social life and self-reproduction of social systems.

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Bartosz Kuźniarz “The Rehabilitation of the Spirit” Drawing from the elements of Niklas Luhmann’s theory, the article analyses cultural communication as the foundation of social life and self-reproduction of social systems.

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Where goest thou, Truman? O sekretnym życiu nowoczesnej utopii

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Kuźniarz B.

ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura

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2007

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issue 15

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Bartosz Kuźniarz Where goest thou, Truman? On the Secret Life of Modern Utopia The essay takes a closer look at one of the "antinomies of postmodernity", distinguished by Fredric Jameson in his 1994 book The Seeds of Time. Times after the fall of communism have witnessed a tremendous revival of anti-utopian thinking, ranging from the Eastern European lustration frenzy up to the western revisions of the French Revolution period. Jameson shows that the strongest arguments against utopia are in fact utopian arguments themselves. For example, the neoliberal, free market ideology - which denounces all forms of social planning, calling for a pure form of the market - despite its scientific outlook, backed by the authority of economics, hinges in reality on the utopian nostalgia for a perfect social order. The widespread anti-utopian mentality is dependent upon secretly provided utopian gratifications. Anti-utopian fears of the consequences of social projects are camouflage for a different kind of utopia at work in the contemporary world society. The essay shows this specific (anti-)utopian entanglement of modern man through the example of Paul Weir's "Truman Show". Truman escapes the artificial, sterile, simulated conditions of Sea Haven in order to become part of the reality which the western audience perceives as decent, normal, free and livable. On the other hand, this "emancipating" gesture conceals the fact that the scenario from which Truman escapes is in "real life" the very epitome of the global, postmodern, capitalist order.

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Bartosz Kuźniarz Where goest thou, Truman? On the Secret Life of Modern Utopia The essay takes a closer look at one of the "antinomies of postmodernity", distinguished by Fredric Jameson in his 1994 book The Seeds of Time. Times after the fall of communism have witnessed a tremendous revival of anti-utopian thinking, ranging from the Eastern European lustration frenzy up to the western revisions of the French Revolution period. Jameson shows that the strongest arguments against utopia are in fact utopian arguments themselves. For example, the neoliberal, free market ideology - which denounces all forms of social planning, calling for a pure form of the market - despite its scientific outlook, backed by the authority of economics, hinges in reality on the utopian nostalgia for a perfect social order. The widespread anti-utopian mentality is dependent upon secretly provided utopian gratifications. Anti-utopian fears of the consequences of social projects are camouflage for a different kind of utopia at work in the contemporary world society. The essay shows this specific (anti-)utopian entanglement of modern man through the example of Paul Weir's "Truman Show". Truman escapes the artificial, sterile, simulated conditions of Sea Haven in order to become part of the reality which the western audience perceives as decent, normal, free and livable. On the other hand, this "emancipating" gesture conceals the fact that the scenario from which Truman escapes is in "real life" the very epitome of the global, postmodern, capitalist order.

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Pierwszy krok w chmurach: o teorii siedliska wydarzeniowego Alaina Badiou

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Kuźniarz B.

Diametros

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2013

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issue 37

69-84

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Zgodnie z tytułem najważniejszej książki Alaina Badiou, L’être et l’événement, jego myśl rozpada się na dwie części: tę dotyczącą bytu oraz tę, w której na pierwszy plan wysuwa się to, co wobec bytu inne, czyli kategoria wydarzenia. Pierwsza część ogranicza się do ustaleń nauki, przepisując na język ontologii aksjomaty teorii zbiorów, by na pewnym etapie, wyczerpawszy swój koncepcyjny potencjał, ustąpić miejsca filozofii. Zadanie tej ostatniej polega na metodycznym opisie możliwości zawartych w wykraczającym poza ontologię „cudzie” wydarzenia. Na pograniczu ontologii i filozofii Badiou umieszcza siedlisko wydarzeniowe. Stanowi ono rodzaj matematycznego odpowiednika kartezjańskiej „szyszynki”, a zarazem ostatnie pojęcie systemu francuskiego filozofa, którego zrozumienie nie wymaga skoku w metafizyczne zaświaty, jakim jest w swej istocie kategoria wydarzenia. Siedlisko wydarzeniowe nie przesądza o możliwości pojawienia się wydarzenia, lecz pozwala określić miejsce, w którym można sensownie oczekiwać jego nadejścia. W swoim artykule podejmuję się rekonstrukcji tego kluczowego pojęcia systemu teoretycznego Badiou.

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In line with the title of Alain Badiou’s main book, Being and Event, his thought breaks down into two components: one that deals with being, and another where pride of place is given to the being’s other, namely the category of event. The former involves scientific findings, which rewrite the axioms of the set theory for the purposes of ontology. Only the second part is properly philosophical, describing the possibilities provided by the otherworldly “miracle” of the event. On the very border between ontology and philosophy Badiou places the evental site: the last concept of Badiou’s system that is fully intelligible without resorting to the metaphysical leap known as the event. The evental site does not settle the matter of the event’s actual occurrence but it allows us to sensibly determine the place or site of its coming. In my paper I undertake the task of reconstructing this crucial concept of Badiou’s system.

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Wcielenie, historia i postludzki sposób produkcji.

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Kuźniarz B.

Praktyka Teoretyczna

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2020

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vol. 37

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issue 3

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Author’s response to the polemical review of the book Król liczb. Szkice z metafizyki kapitalizmu, by prof. Andrzej Leder and published in this issue of Praktyka Teoretyczna, 189–196

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Niniejszy tekst stanowi odpowiedź autora na opublikowaną również w niniejszym numerze Praktyki Teoretycznej (189–196) polemiczną recenzję książki Król liczb. Szkice z metafizyki kapitalizmu, autorstwa prof. Andrzeja Ledera.

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Simmel and the Posthuman: Money as the God of Bad Infinity

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Kuźniarz B.

Polish Sociological Review

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2018

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vol. 204

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issue 4

447-462

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Contrary to a longstanding tradition of associating the attractive force of the modern economy with it sunbridled materialism, I claim in my paper that the power of capitalism lies in the transfer of human desire into the realm of the abstract. Our passionate attachment to the capitalist system stems from its money-mediated capabilityto organize the infinite: money is a special form of structuring infinity, which I term the “count to infinity.” Thepaper develops this concept, drawing on three in-depth analyses offered by Georg Simmel in his The Philosophy of Money: first, the infinite structure of value, or, money as bad infinity; second, money as the pure vehicle of life;and third, money as the “absolute means.” It is my main contention that by moving human desire into the realm ofthe abstract, money has provided life with a vessel to elevate itself to a higher plane of energy, thus transcending the bounds of the human species.

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Rehabilitacja ducha

Where goest thou, Truman? O sekretnym życiu nowoczesnej utopii

Pierwszy krok w chmurach: o teorii siedliska wydarzeniowego Alaina Badiou

Wcielenie, historia i postludzki sposób produkcji.

Simmel and the Posthuman: Money as the God of Bad Infinity