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Inny Zagrzeb. Transformacje obrazu miasta w chorwackiej prozie fantastycznej po 1991 roku

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Wojtaszek A.
Creatio Fantastica
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2018
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issue 1(58)
109-119
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Croatian speculative fiction in the last quarter of the century has been dominated by the city of Zagreb. There are three anthologies depicting the capital of Croatia and visions of its future: Zagreb 2004 (1995), Zagreb 2014 (1998) and Zagreb 2094 (2004). Also, in Croatian dystopian fiction, the popularity of which has grown rapidly since 2010, the city becomes a metaphor for the problem of exclusion and deep inequalities between the centre and the periphery. The changes in the literary image of Zagreb over the last twen­ty-five years illustrate not only the changing perception of an urban space and different ways of experiencing the city by writers, but also depict the evolution of speculative fiction in Croatia by distinguishing its most important elements: the growth of the importance of local motifs and places, as well as blurring the rigid genre boundaries and the evolution towards the so-called slipstream fiction. Thanks to the analysis of literary images of Zagreb, questions about the attitude of fantasy literature of that time towards the main contemporary issues can be raised. The article finally offers a possibility to define either the subversive or conciliatory character of fantasy works in the context of the most dominant ideologies of that time.
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Games and Utopia

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Kłosiński M.
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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„Dla innej przyszłości świata”. Dojrzała myśl utopianistyczna na łamach „Problemów”

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Wyskiel K.
Tematy i Konteksty
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2023
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vol. 18
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issue 13
338-352
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The article is an attempt to interpret, in the spirit of utopian studies, articles and literary works published in the magazine “Problemy” in the years 1980–1985. It was a period of strong presence of wishful visions of reality in the Polish press, which resulted from the country’s situation in the era of the Polish People’s Republic. According to the research of such Western researchers as Ruth Levitas, the presence of utopian thinking was indicated in articles appearing in the popular science press. The focus was primarily on several topics of utopian thinking: cybernetic, transhumanistic, ecological, educational.
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Artykuł stanowi próbę interpretacji w duchu badań utopian studies artykułów i utworów literackich publikowanych w czasopiśmie „Problemy” w latach 1980–1985. Był to okres silnej obecności życzeniowych wizji rzeczywistości na łamach polskiej prasy, co wynikało z sytuacji kraju w dobie PRL-u. Zgodnie z badaniami takich zachodnich badaczy, jak Ruth Levitas wskazano na obecność utopianistycznego myślenia w artykułach pojawiających się w prasie popularnonaukowej. Skupiono się przede wszystkim na kilku wymiarach utopijnego myślenia: cybernetycznym, transhumanistycznym, ekologicznym, wychowawczym.
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Bądźmy realistami – żądajmy niemożliwego! Kulturoznawstwo i zwrot ku utopii?

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Matysek-Imielińska M.
Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka
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2018
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vol. 100
92-104
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The article analyzes contemporary interest in utopia as a method in the area of the new humanities. The author asks whether nowadays, after the post-critical turn, humanists can afford to use utopia as a method. She also ponders on the attitude that would have to be adopted for this methodology. In this context, she briefly discusses the proposals of Jeffrey C. Alexander, Immanuel Wallerstein and Ruth Levitas, while identifying ethical and methodological problems related to utopian experiments and their limits. Taking into account her methodological findings about utopia as a method, she continues her search through Polish cultural studies, pointing for example to Jan Sowa’s works and broader research trends presented at the 3rd Congress of the Polish Association of Cultural Studies in Poznań. While diagnosing them only as a preliminary phase, she believes they may be the phenomena that herald a turn towards utopia in the Polish humanities.
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