This article analyses Western popular music in terms of content related to climate change. While references to nature have been present in song lyrics and various artistic at least since the 1960s, they seem to be gaining momentum in the view of the current ecological crisis. The discussion focuses on the ecological dimensions of rock defined also as a record of the cultural function of popular music, allowing us to take a closer look at the applications, description methods, and the purpose of environmental references. The aim of this article is not only to identify artists who address these issues, but also to reflect on the actual effects of incorporating the environmental content into popular music and its potential to express the cultural resistance. The paper is not so much interested in the recognition and cataloguing of references to the biosphere and its state or listing protest songs that call for greater care for the environment, but in how these issues have been exploited in recent cultural productions. The discussion focuses on popular music in English-speaking cultures, putting particular emphasis on broadly defined rock music recognised as largely responsible for the globalisation of many stereotypes and lifestyles so willingly copied and developed in other parts of the world.
The article aims to sketch the reception and the representations of French feminist discourses in the Anglo-American critical theory starting from the early 1970s. It situates French Feminism within the field of French Theory, a notion created in the Anglophone critical discourses, and analyses the meanings ascribed to both terms. Through a historicised discussion of the appropriation of the French theories - for a long time limited to the propositions of Julia Kristeva, Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray - the text also attempts to present the popular critical moves (selectiveness and standardisation) in this process. What follows constitutes a brief analysis of the reasons and responses to the propagation of French feminism as a reductive construct. The article concludes registering a change in more contemporary approaches which attempt to move beyond the initial label. Key words: French Theory, French feminism, theoretical discourse, poststructuralism.
The article centres on the notion of responsibility in Tom Stoppard’s Darkside (2013). While Pink Floyd’s original album, which inspired the playwright, thematises its connection to ethics in a spectral and hauntological manner, through the use of field recording sound snippets interwoven in the music, the radio play explores the notion of responsibility through what is called “thought experiments.” The article identifies the subversive function of these narrative examples and, following Emanuel Levinas’ suggestions concerning the instability of the link between the philosophical discourse and that of examples, shows the latter’s insolent and disruptive nature. The notion of responsibility is further linked to its discussion by Jacques Derrida in his Gift of Death (1995) which consequently makes it possible to view the relation between responsibility and responding from a subversive, hauntological and undecidable perspective.
The article centres on the notion of responsibility in Tom Stoppard’s Darkside (2013). While Pink Floyd’s original album, which inspired the playwright, thematises its connection to ethics in a spectral and hauntological manner, through the use of field recording sound snippets interwoven in the music, the radio play explores the notion of responsibility through what is called “thought experiments.” The article identifies the subversive function of these narrative examples and, following Emanuel Levinas’ suggestions concerning the instability of the link between the philosophical discourse and that of examples, shows the latter’s insolent and disruptive nature. The notion of responsibility is further linked to its discussion by Jacques Derrida in his Gift of Death (1995) which consequently makes it possible to view the relation between responsibility and responding from a subversive, hauntological and undecidable perspective.
The article reviews the book by Andrzej Marzec, entitled Antropocień. Filozofia i estetyka po końcu świata. It identifies the key subject areas discussed in his work (new materialism and object‑oriented ontology), as well as the adopted method. Due to the significant role of language in the philosopher’s terminological proposition, apart from analyzing the content of the book, the article also examines the publication as an attempt to question and liberate our human selves from the possibility of the dominant, anthropocentric language.
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Artykuł stanowi recenzję książki Andrzeja Marca pt. Antropocień. Filozofia i estetyka po końcu świata. Identyfikuje główne zakresy tematyczne omawiane przez autora (nowy materializm oraz ontologię zwróconą ku przedmiotom), a także obraną przez niego metodę. Ze względu na znaczącą rolę języka w propozycji terminologicznej filozofa, poza opisem zawartości publikacji, tekst podejmuje również próbę spojrzenia na książkę jako na zapis rozważań nad możliwością zakwestionowania i wyzwolenia się z dominującego antropocentrycznego języka.
The article reviews some recent developments in ecocritical discourses. It briefly overviews the discipline from the point of view of weak thinking and comments on Timothy Morton‟s hyperobjects, a notion which results in what he calls “the state of weakness and lameness for human beings”. This position is contextualised within the claims of Object-Oriented Ontology to demonstrate how – using Nicholas Royle's notion of veering – such ecothinking, while drawing on literary discourses, uses a weakened, non-anthropocentric position to offer an alternative to the standard „strong‟ mode of thinking and writing about the environment, to take it beyond didacticism, guilt and threat.
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Autor omawia w artykule współczesne osiągnięcia dyskursów ekokrytyki, próbując odczytać je przez pryzmat słabej myśli. Główna uwaga poświęcona jest intrygującym propozycjom teoretycznym Timothy‟ego Mortona dotyczącym hiperobiektów, które ukazane zostają w kontekście OOO (object-oriented ontology), a które uznać można za przykłady innego sposobu uprawiania teorii i praktyki akademickiej. Wykorzystując pojęcie veering (skołowacenia) Nicholasa Royle‟a, autor wskazuje zalety osadzenia rozważań w „osłabionej”, nieantropocentrycznej perspektywie, która stanowi alternatywę dla bardziej dydaktycznych i opartych na poczuciu winy dyskursów krytycznych.
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