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Kondycja spektaklu. Produkt, próźnia, przyśpieszenie

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Mazurek M.
ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura
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2002
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issue 5
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Marcin Mazurek "The Condition of Spectacle. Product, Vacuum, Acceleration" 'The article aims at a critical explication of two attempts to frame the distorted sense of the real, firstly. through the notion of the spectacle (Guy Debord) and then the simulacrum (Jean Baudrillard). Both concepts, though they originated in political and media-related discourses, stress the autonomy of representation and its close relationship with conditions of contemporary social existence as well as with the process of identity formation, the latter to a large extent informed by the total substitution of the material by the mediated.
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Marcin Mazurek "The Condition of Spectacle. Product, Vacuum, Acceleration" 'The article aims at a critical explication of two attempts to frame the distorted sense of the real, firstly. through the notion of the spectacle (Guy Debord) and then the simulacrum (Jean Baudrillard). Both concepts, though they originated in political and media-related discourses, stress the autonomy of representation and its close relationship with conditions of contemporary social existence as well as with the process of identity formation, the latter to a large extent informed by the total substitution of the material by the mediated.
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Dylematy kultury terminalnej

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Mazurek M.
ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura
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2002
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issue 5
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Marcin Mazurek's review of "Terminal Identity. The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction" by Scott Bukatman(1993).
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Wirtualny podmiot Bukatmana - wprowadzenie

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Mazurek M.
ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura
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2002
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issue 5
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Marcin Mazurek, Bukatman’s Virtual Subject – Introduction The essays the concept of terminal identity as introduced by Scott Bukatman.
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Marcin Mazurek, Bukatman’s Virtual Subject – Introduction The essays the concept of terminal identity as introduced by Scott Bukatman.
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Nowa mapa miasta: między nudą a rewolucją

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Mazurek M.
ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura
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2006
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issue 13
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Marcin Mazurek A New Map of the City: Between Boredom and Revolution Taking Scott Fitzgerald's prophetic prediction of the urban reality informed by "racy, adventurous feel [.. .] and the constant flicker of men and women and machines" as a departure point, the article aims at analysing the problem of contemporary representation and distribution of urban space. Populated in equal measures by the human and the technological, the cityscape inevitably enforces a redefinition of the urban self, locating it at the intersection of the technological, the textual and the virtual environments and thus narrating a significant departure from the traditional approaches to urban locality in favour of the cyber ones. Traces of the latter are identifiable across a number of textual representations, from the aforementioned Fitzgerald to William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, and from Melvin Webber to Jean Baudrillard and William Mitchell. Still, somehow contrary to Mitchell's enthusiastic views of the cyber-urban future, there appears a much more sinister tone of the threats posed by the excessive development of technological consumerism, which as J. G. Ballard's book Millennium People informs us, is likely to evoke all kinds of nihilistic and self-destructive reactions.
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Marcin Mazurek A New Map of the City: Between Boredom and Revolution Taking Scott Fitzgerald's prophetic prediction of the urban reality informed by "racy, adventurous feel [.. .] and the constant flicker of men and women and machines" as a departure point, the article aims at analysing the problem of contemporary representation and distribution of urban space. Populated in equal measures by the human and the technological, the cityscape inevitably enforces a redefinition of the urban self, locating it at the intersection of the technological, the textual and the virtual environments and thus narrating a significant departure from the traditional approaches to urban locality in favour of the cyber ones. Traces of the latter are identifiable across a number of textual representations, from the aforementioned Fitzgerald to William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, and from Melvin Webber to Jean Baudrillard and William Mitchell. Still, somehow contrary to Mitchell's enthusiastic views of the cyber-urban future, there appears a much more sinister tone of the threats posed by the excessive development of technological consumerism, which as J. G. Ballard's book Millennium People informs us, is likely to evoke all kinds of nihilistic and self-destructive reactions.
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Awatary i powłoki: (bez)cielesność w literaturze cyberpunkowej

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Mazurek M.
Logos i Ethos
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2020
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vol. 52
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The article revolves around the question of the boundaries of corporeality in selected cyberpunk novels, with particular emphasis on the evolution of body representations in virtual spaces, which remains one of the main identification marks of the genre. Broadly speaking, the evolution in question proceeds from a peculiar negation of the body in early cyberpunk prose, to its aestheticization in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, to the question of mind-body relationship touched upon in Richard Morgan’s Altered Carbon. In the novels under discussion, corporeality poses both a problem and an ontological challenge, as it is located in technologically-determined environments which force textual subjects, and hence the readers, to constantly revise the boundaries and the status of their own bodies in a world more and more often resembling cyberpunk settings.
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Artykuł porusza problem cielesności i jej granic w wybranych powieściach literatury cyberpunkowej, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem ewolucji reprezentacji ciała w przestrzeni wirtualnej, która stanowi główny znak rozpoznawczy omawianego gatunku. W ogólnym ujęciu wspomniana ewolucja postępuje od swoistej negacji ciała we wczesnej prozie cyberpunkowej, poprzez jego estetyzację w utworze Zamieć Neala Stephensona, po kwestię związku ciała z umysłem poruszoną w powieści Modyfikowany węgiel Richarda Morgana. Zagadnienie cielesności w omawianych tekstach stanowi zarówno problem, jak i wyzwanie ontologiczne, ulokowane zostaje bowiem w technologicznie determinowanych środowiskach, które zmuszają tekstualne podmioty, a tym samym czytelnika, do ciągłej rewizji granic i statusu własnej cielesności w świecie coraz bardziej przypominającym cyberpunkowe scenerie.
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Miasta (nie)doskonałe. Utopia i dystopia w wybranych reprezentacjach nowoczesnej przestrzeni miejskiej

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Mazurek M.
ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura
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2017
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issue 36
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Marcin MazurekInstitute of English Cultures and LiteraturesFaculty of PhilologyUniversity of Silesia in KatowicePoland (Im)Perfect Cities. Utopia and Dystopia in Selected Representations of Modern Urban Space Abstract: The article’s departure point is an assumption of a close relationship between the construction of urban space and the projected identity of its inhabitants. Within the context of late-modern architecture this relationship opens up a discursive space for ideologically-motivated and often utopian visions inspired by the modernist desire to produce  a new subject liberated from the socio-historical bias and hierarchical entanglements. Yet upon closer analysis utopian architectural projects – including those represented by literature and the arts – reveal their totalizing aspirations thus blurring the boundary between utopia and dystopia. In the article, the latter is illustrated through a historical analysis of selected literary texts and by particular postulates of modernist architecture included in the Athens Charter and in practical terms represented by large-scale urban housing projects, such as Katowice’s Millennial Housing Estate whose critical evaluation takes place against the background of broader cultural operations reflected in the concept of cognitive capitalism. The last part of the paper is devoted to the phenomenon of virtualization of urban space and its translocation to the virtual sphere, which – following both postmodern critics and virtual culture theorists – becomes a new model of individualized urban existence. Keywords: architecture, appartment block, utopia, dystopia, ideal city, literature, industrial revolution, Victorian era, spectacle, simulacrum, cognitive capitalism, virtual city, identity
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For an abstract in English, scroll down.Marcin MazurekInstytut Kultur i Literatur AnglojęzycznychWydział FilologicznyUniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach Miasta (nie)doskonałeUtopia i dystopia w wybranych reprezentacjach nowoczesnej przestrzeni miejskiejAbstrakt: Punkt wyjścia artykułu stanowi założenie o ścisłym związku pomiędzy procesem konstruowania przestrzeni miejskiej a kształtowaniem tożsamości jej mieszkańców. W kontekście architektury późno-nowoczesnej związek ten otwiera dyskursywną przestrzeń dla podbudowanych ideologicznie i nierzadko utopijnych wizji związanych z modernistycznym pragnieniem stworzenia nowego podmiotu wyzwolonego z historycznych zaszłości i społeczno-hierarchicznych uwikłań. Poddane bliższej analizie architektoniczne projekty o utopijnym podłożu – również te obecne w reprezentacjach i literackich i artystycznych – ujawniają jednak swoje totalizujące aspiracje zacierając tym samym granicę pomiędzy utopią a dystopią. Artykuł ilustruje tę ostatnią poprzez analizę historycznych przykładów literackich oraz wybranych postulatów architektury modernistycznej zawartych w Karcie Ateńskiej i w praktyce reprezentowanych wielkomiejskimi projektami budowlanymi jaki stanowi katowickie Osiedle Tysiąclecia, którego omówienie zostaje dokonane w szerszym kontekście współczesnych zmian kulturowych odzwierciedlonych w koncepcji kapitalizmu kognitywnego. W końcowej części artykułu analizie poddane zostaje także zjawisko wirtualizacji przestrzeni miejskiej oraz jej translokacja do sfery wirtualnej, która – podążając tropem myśli zarówno wybranych teoretyków postmodernizmu jaki i badaczy kultury wirtualnej - stanowi nowy model zindywidualizowanej miejskiej egzystencji.Słowa kluczowe: architektura, blok, utopia, dystopia, miasto idealne, literatura, rewolucja przemysłowa, epoka wiktoriańska, spektakl, symulakrum, kapitalizm kognitywny, miasto wirtualne, tożsamość (Im)Perfect Cities. Utopia and Dystopia in Selected Representations of Modern Urban Space Abstract: The article’s departure point is an assumption of a close relationship between the construction of urban space and the projected identity of its inhabitants. Within the context of late-modern architecture this relationship opens up a discursive space for ideologically-motivated and often utopian visions inspired by the modernist desire to produce  a new subject liberated from the socio-historical bias and hierarchical entanglements. Yet upon closer analysis utopian architectural projects – including those represented by literature and the arts – reveal their totalizing aspirations thus blurring the boundary between utopia and dystopia. In the article, the latter is illustrated through a historical analysis of selected literary texts and by particular postulates of modernist architecture included in the Athens Charter and in practical terms represented by large-scale urban housing projects, such as Katowice’s Millennial Housing Estate whose critical evaluation takes place against the background of broader cultural operations reflected in the concept of cognitive capitalism. The last part of the paper is devoted to the phenomenon of virtualization of urban space and its translocation to the virtual sphere, which – following both postmodern critics and virtual culture theorists – becomes a new model of individualized urban existence. Keywords: architecture, appartment block, utopia, dystopia, ideal city, literature, industrial revolution, Victorian era, spectacle, simulacrum, cognitive capitalism, virtual city, identity
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