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Katarzyna Kobro's artistic and theoretical oeuvre is most often discussed within the framework of the history of Constructivism. The prefix "re" used in the second component of the title of this article is to draw attention to other interpretative possibilities. They take into account either the characteristics of the artist's works that have been ignored earlier or different, contemporary interpretative contexts. The characteristic features of Kobro's sculptures considered here are their smooth integrating into the space (instead of breaking through and conquering typical of Constructivism) and the openness of the possibility to move around in it (instead of directing and disciplining movements). The contexts taken into consideration in this respect are "female aesthetics" and Michel Foucault's critical reflections on the role of space in Jeremy Bentaham's "Panopticon" idea. Both these interpretative perspectives aim at emphasizing the need for freedom in Kobro's sculptures, instead of the previously emphasized features of economics and functionalism
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Academic ‘labour’ within the Higher Education landscape is changing as universities are increasingly managed as business organisations. In the contemporary neoliberal academic context, departments and individuals are required to develop forms of accountability based on quantitative metrics regarding performance, budgets, human resource management and income generation. Drawing from Foucauldian theories of power, this article explores the contentious implementation of workload allocation models in the UK Higher Education sector not only as an illustration of a superimposed managerial tool of control but also as an instrument of resistance. This article suggests that in order to counteract the systematic failure of neoliberal academia at the individual and collective level, these performance management tools can be used as forms of empowerment and resistance. Further, it is recommended that these instruments are designed in a collaborative way to ensure fair and transparent allocations of tasks and responsibilities, and to avoid unmanageable workloads.
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This review study discusses a collection of essays by the Korean-German philosopher Byung-Chul Han, which was published in 2016 by the Prague publisher, Rybka, with the title Vyhořelá společnost (The Burnout Society). The author, on the one hand, positively evaluates Han’s description of negative aspects of the growth in transparency in the area of politics and human relations. On the other hand, however, he shows that Han overlooks the fact that the growth in transparen­cy is asymmetrical and brings with it a growth in inequality with regard to power and wealth. In the concluding part of the review study, Han’s critique of Foucault is rejected and it is shown that one can utilize the concept of dispositif from The Will to Knowledge for the analysis of the power aspects of the growth of digitalisation.
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The Custom and Border Protection (CBP) border security policy was explicitly presented by former Acting Commissioner of CBP, David Aguilar, in testimony before the United States Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) on April 4, 2017 in testimony on the subject of “Fencing Along the Southwest Border.” Important for discussion here are the key components of the DHS/CBP/Border Patrol’s strategy, or sets of policies, laying forth elements of the border walls (including barriers, fences), personnel, and technology in order to hinder, or intercept, undocumented migrants (homo sacer) from entering the United States illegally-all socially constructed. Aguilar notes in his opening remarks “Maintaining a safe and secure environment along the U.S.-Mexico border is critical. A safe and orderly border that is predicated on the strong rule of law deprives criminal organizations, drug cartels, and criminal individuals the opportunity to thrive.” In Aguilar’s testimony, when pressed by Ranking Member Senator Claire McCaskill, he set forth the current needs for CBP/Border Patrol priority of the three elements in the following order: (1) Technology (border surveillance), (2) Personnel (numbers of agents along the border), and, (3) The Border Wall (physical infrastructure: fences, walls, and vehicle barriers). The security apparatus affects dwellers along the Rio Grande and undocumented border crossers, demonstrated here with an analysis of the application of President Trump’s Zero Tolerance policy (April 6–June 20, 2018). The security framework applied in this paper will consist of theoretical approaches assessing border surveillance as a panopticon, the use of Border Patrol agents for apprehending, detaining and removing homo sacer, and the symbolism of the border wall as a spectacle and simulacrum-all understood in the pursuit of USA border security policy.
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Статья представляет собой прочтение идеи зоопарка в контексте концепции пространственности дискурса Мишеля Фуко. Книга Ларса Берге Добрый волк. Трагедия в шведском зоопарке послужила автору источником вдохновения для размышлений. Автор статьи обращается к истории зоопарков, пытаясь рассмотреть это место на фоне истории идей, особенно концепций экономизации, сциентизма, коллекционирования и таксономии девятнадцатого века. В дальнейшей части автор рассматривает зоопарк в контексте визуальных практик, учитывая роль взгляда в диалектике власти/знания. Это показывает, что зоопарк, функционирующий в связи с политическим, иерархическим мировоззрением, всегда будет оставаться областью культурного и антропоцентрического. В статье обсуждается также восприятие зоопарков в эпоху антропоцена как современных «Ноевых ковчегов» и этический аспект «социализации» животных.
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In her article, Katarzyna Szalewska offers a reading of the idea of the zoo in the context of Michel Foucault’s concept of the spatialization of discourse. Lars Berge’s book A Good Wolf. The Tragedy in a Swedish Zoo was an inspiration for Szalewska’s reflection. Szalewska refers to the history of the zoo and places this facility against the history of ideas, especially the nineteenth-century concepts of economization, scientism, collections and taxonomy. She then considers the zoo in the context of visual practices, especially the role of the gaze in the dialectic of power and knowledge. She shows that the zoo, functioning as it does in relation to the political and hierarchizing view, will always remain the domain of the cultural and the anthropocentric. Szalewska also addresses the perception and role of zoos as modern Noah’s arcs in the Anthropocene era and the ethical dimension of the “socialization” of animals.
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W artykule idea ogrodu zoologicznego została odczytana w kontekście Foucaultowskiej koncepcji uprzestrzennienia dyskursu. Inspiracją do refleksji stała się książka Larsa Bergego Dobry wilk. Tragedia w szwedzkim zoo. Autorka tekstu odnosi się do historii ogrodów zoologicznych, starając się osadzić tę placówkę na tle historii idei, zwłaszcza dziewiętnastowiecznych konceptów ekonomizacji, scjentyzmu, kolekcjonowania i taksonomii. W dalszej części rozważań sytuuje ogród zoologiczny w kontekście praktyk wizualnych, zwłaszcza roli spojrzenia w dialektyce władzy/wiedzy. Pokazuje, że ogród zoologiczny, funkcjonując w odniesieniu do spojrzenia politycznego, hierarchizującego, zawsze pozostanie domeną tego, co kulturowe i antropocentryczne. Podejmuje również kwestie postrzegania ogrodów zoologicznych w dobie antropocenu jako nowoczesnych arek Noego i etycznego wymiaru „socjalizacji” zwierząt.
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Może lepiej, gdy patrzą?

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Referring to Rafał Nahirny’s Granice kontroli [Limits of Control], this article discusses the implications of some problems raised in the book. An analysis of Jeremy Bentham’s social projects as well as his personal fears (as indicated in his writings) reveals a crack in the figure of this English philosopher. Bentham presented rational, systematic attempts that were intended to address social risks. To this end, he proposed to establish institutions similar to those operating in England already in the 16th century; however, at the same time he sabotaged their implementation. The emphasis that he put on his panopticon solutions to ensure control reveals the entanglement between the rational need for control and irrational anxiety to have someone that stands guard.
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The theoretical basis of the paper is Michel Foucault’s concept of power based on the panopticon mechanism. The study area is located on the Warta river in Poznan. It has a specific feature that distinguishes it from other urban areas. It is an opportunity to consume alcohol, which is legally prohibited in other public places. The aim of this paper is to analyze techniques of disciplining the behavior of people, who spend time on the Warta river, use or designed by state and local authorities. Three types of urban space management techniques have been identified on the basis of the research: information advantage, patrolling and monitoring, colonization of urban space.
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W warstwie teoretycznej autor artykułu odwołuje się do koncepcji panoptykonu Michela Foucaulta. Obszarem badania są tereny położone nad rzeką Wartą w Poznaniu. Stanowią one przestrzeń publiczną, w pełni dostępną dla wszystkich ludzi. Posiadają jedną cechę specyficzną, która odróżnia je od innych terenów miejskich. Jest nią możliwość spożywania alkoholu, czego pra­wo zabrania w innych miejscach publicznych. Celem artykułu jest analiza technik dyscyplinujących zachowania osób przebywających na terenach nadwarciańskich stosowanych lub projektowanych przez władzę państwową i lokalną. Na podstawie badań zostały zidentyfikowane trzy tego typu techniki zarządzania przestrzenią miejską: wykorzystywanie przewagi informacyjnej, patrolowanie i monitoring, kolonizacja przestrzeni miejskiej.
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Koci ogon

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The „Panopticum” section contains columns and essays of Ewa Stawicka, a barrister, writer and poet. The first column involves the topic reflecting the title of this section, and also of the prison architecture in Poland, on the basis of “the cat’s tail” (Koci ogon) in Toruń, an example referring to Jeremy Bentham’s “Panopticon”.
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Tekst stanowi interpretację filmu Kieł w reżyserii Yorgosa Lanthimosa, łączącą jego treść z myślą Michela Foucaulta dotyczącą kształtowania i kontroli jednostek w obrębie społeczeństwa. Autor wskazuje, że przedstawiona w filmie alegorycznahistoria bezimiennej rodziny podejmuje i przetwarza wątki poruszane przez francuskiego filozofa, przede wszystkim w pracy Nadzorować i karać. Wykazanie takiej analogii pozwala na dokładniejsze dostrzeżenie odniesienia wizji reżysera do społecznej rzeczywistości. W tej perspektywie fabułę filmu można odczytać jako hiperboliczne zobrazowanie mechanizmu wytwarzania jednostek przez dyskurs władzy – wiedzy oraz panoptycznego więzienia, formułująceinspirowaną dorobkiem Michela Foucaulta krytykę instytucji rodziny za pomocą artystycznych środków wyrazu.
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The article is an interpretation of Yorgos Lanthimos’ movie Dogtooth, which connects its content with Michel Foucault’s conceptions about creating and controlling individuals in the society. The author shows that allegorical story of the unnamed family, which is presented in the movie, uses and rephrases themes introduced by French philosopher, especially in Discipline and punish book. Showing such an analogy allows seeing more clearly how director’s vision refers to the social reality. In this perspective, movie’s plot can be seen as the hyperbolic depiction of creation individuals by power/knowledge discourse and panoptical prison concepts, which draws the critique of family institution, inspired by Michel Foucault’s works, using artistic measures.
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