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Sztuka w pofałdowanym świecie: architektura w płynie

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Sułkowska-Janowska M.

IDEA. Studia nad strukturą i rozwojem pojęć filozoficznych

2012

vol. 24

175-184

While writing this article, the author was inspired by “Między chwilą a pięknem. O sztuce w rozpędzonym świecie” by Zygmunt Bauman. Following Baumanian diagnosis of the contemporary art we are faced with the condition of our contemporary world. The main feature we can observe in both areas seems to be their ‘liquidity’. In this liquid context the author of the article focuses on contemporary architecture, which was omitted by Zygmunt Bauman. It appears that the most fixed, palpable and sturdy type of art also may assume a kind of liquid form – as in the case of so called ‘folding’, ‘downy’, or ‘pleated’ architecture proposed by Bernard Tschumi or Peter Eisenman who are strongly inspired by philosophical thoughts of Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, or Jacques Derrida.

"Fallout 2": postmodernistyczna gra komputerowa

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Wałaszewski Z.

Literatura i Kultura Popularna

2010

vol. 16

133-142

The computer game Fallout 2 is a sequel to the well-known hit Fallout. As a simple reproduction it copies and enhances the engine of the original game but in terms of conveyed ideas it becomes a postmodern play of meanings with the player. Its presented world recalling the atmosphere of the 1950–1960s in America – the atmosphere saturated with the fear of nuclear annihilation, Fallout seriously gave a warning of military totalitarianism. The main idea expressed by Fallout 2 consists in the cognitive subject’s distancing from culture and the sense of multiplicity: each solution, both in the game and in culture, is but one of a number of those available. The choice of a solution invariably brings about both positive and negative consequences. To put aside the player’s objective determined by the plot line, the presented world in Fallout 2 is like a panopticon which houses as exhibits various cultural stereotypes concerning the US history and a global development of civilisation. The player-hero roams the game world like a Baumanian tourist, entertaining themselves on the way with solving puzzles and above all with identifying multifarious quotations from particular “texts of culture” (film, literature, television, history) and genre conventions (western, SF, horror film). Humour and irony, omnipresent in the presented world, as well as quotations from Fallout and allusions to the players’ experience with computer technosphere lead to the deconstruction of Fallout 2 and exposure of its conventional nature as a computer game. In spite of challenging the reality of the presented world the problems posed to the player remain real. The player’s true though hidden objective boils down to the recognition of and reflection over allusions to social phenomena (political systems from democracy to utopia, organised crime, religious sects) and moral problems (a choice of the lesser and greater evil, truthfulness and deception).

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Sztuka w pofałdowanym świecie: architektura w płynie

"Fallout 2": postmodernistyczna gra komputerowa