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This article discusses the presence of railway epiphanies in the works of Miron Białoszewski, in particular their reference to queer events, understood as the presence of non-heteronormative meaning or desire. I examine the presence of trams, subways and railways in Białoszewski’s trips to Paris, Budapest and New York. Travelling by train can induce transgressive impulses and is often an occasion for expressing hidden tendencies, for instance homosexual behaviours. The experience of the train journey, which builds up weariness and drowsiness, can contribute to people experiencing a lack of boundaries and limits around them, with the consequence of everything becoming more confusing, obscure, and fluid. The movement of the train can cause a trance state, and due to the walking between the world of the conscious and subconscious mind, passengers evolve into “transpersons”, that is to say people “in the transition”, “on the way”, and “between”. Their gender becomes fluid, mobile, and “in motion”. This paper also analyses the figure of “derailed person” used by Artur Sandauer when comparing Białoszewski to Genet as a means of encoding homosexuality, here understood as a figure of the queer “derailment” of heteronormativity.
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W „Córkach Dancingu” (2015) Agnieszki Smoczyńskiej bohaterki-syreny samą swoją obecnością naruszają obowiązujący – patriarchalny i heteronormatywny – porządek społeczny. Ów film to kino wielkiej odmowy, przykład feministycznego i queerowego kontrkina, które każe nam spojrzeć na rzeczywistość przez pryzmat potworów i niesie ze sobą obietnicę innego życia, porządku i pragnienia. Jagielski sytuuje film Smoczyńskiej w kontekście, po pierwsze, kampowej estetyki oraz cielesnych i abiektalnych gatunków (horroru, musicalu i melodramatu), po drugie zaś – negatywnych afektów: niespełnionej miłości, smutku, depresji, żalu, utraty czy gniewu. Koncentruje się on na obrazach potwornych, pokawałkowanych ciał oraz sadomasochistycznych, melodramatycznych i muzycznych performance’ów. „Wsteczność” – kampowa estetyka, abiektalne ciała, „słabe” afekty, niemodne artefakty – prowadzi widzów „Córek Dancingu”, jak dowodzi autor, w stronę utopii, nadziei i przyszłości.
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In Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s “The Lure” (“Córki Dancingu”, 2015) the siren heroines, by their very presence, violate the dominating – patriarchal and heteronormative – social order. This film is a cinema of great refusal, an example of a feminist and queer counter-cinema, which makes us look at reality through the prism of monsters and brings with it the promise of a different life, order and desire. Jagielski situates Smoczyńska’s film in the context of, firstly, camp aesthetics and bodily and abject genres (horror, musical and melodrama), and second – negative affects: unrequited love, sadness, depression, grief, loss or anger. He focuses on images of monstrous, fragmented bodies and sadomasochistic, melodramatic and musical performances. “Backwardness” – camp aesthetics, abnormal bodies, “weak” affects, unfashionable artefacts – lead the viewers of “The Lure”, as the author shows, towards utopia, hope and the future.
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Equality and freedom are the foundations of liberal democracy and the Western society. However, they can be differently defined, and their definition implicates the different conditions and shaping of both culture and society. The main line of distinction is the orientation of definitions of both equality and freedom: they can be individual-oriented or group-oriented. The philosophical dilemma about what is true freedom and true equality is also a practical problem: which definition should be applied in today’s social politics and how to integrate individuals and groups into a single multicultural postmodern society. I shall demonstrate the main conceptions and potential consequences of their application. Then I shall analyse cultural representations of those conceptions. Such representations not only reflect but also influence popular thinking. Finally, I shall try to draw some conclusions regarding the implementation of different social conceptions.
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Michel Foucault jako farmakon

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W artykule szukam odpowiedzi na pytanie, czy spuścizna Michela Foucaulta jest wciąż aktualna, czy stanowi już tylko szacowny zabytek humanistyki. Wpisuję myśl Foucaulta w „logikę farmakonu”, to znaczy środka, który jest zarazem lekarstwem i trucizną. W polemice z poglądami Ewy Domańskiej pokazuję, że myśl Foucaulta nadal pozostaje aktualna. Pozwala bowiem tak pytać o podmiotowość, status norm i normalizacji, by z jednej strony dostrzegać mechanizmy władzy i wiedzy, które warunkują procesy upodmiotowienia, a z drugiej zdać sprawę z autonomii i samosterowności podmiotów, w tym z wpływu, jaki podmioty mogą wywierać na społecznie funkcjonujące normy.
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In my article, I will try to find an answer to a question: Is Michel Foucault’s oeuvre still up to date or has it become one of the respected but foregone relics of humanities? I would inscribe Foucault’s thought into the “logic of pharmakon,” that is, a means being, at the same time, both a poison and a cure. I will show, polemically to Ewa Domańska, that Foucault’s thought remains valid nowadays. It allows us to question the subjectivity, status of norms, and normalization in such manner that we can perceive, on the one hand, mechanisms of power and knowledge and, on the other hand, we can give an account of subjects’ autonomy and self-determination, including their impact on norms at work in society.
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