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Smart obiekty w kontekście artefaktów awangardy i neoawangardy

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Kornhauser J.

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2018

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vol. 12

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issue 2

119-134

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The article traces the evolution of the status of objects, understood as a carrier of creative expression, from the avant-garde concepts of Duchamp readymades or surrealistic “disturbed objects” to neo-avant-garde installations (Spoerri, Anselmo, Černý, Jasielski, Schneider, Bałka, Hasior). The most important point ofreference for the considerations is the belief in the specific autonomy that the object acquires in avant-garde and neo-avant-garde theories. Moving constantly from a usable to artistic context - or at least participating in negotiations between these spheres - an object must also be seen in terms of everyday cultural practices. The author uses the theory of “smart object” developed by artists and art theoreticians (Agata Pankiewicz, Marcin Przybyłka, Roch Sulima) to show relationships between useable objects, which are intentionally non-artistic, but which are in the field of artistic activities (smart objects), with strictly aesthetic artifacts. Considering several selected properties (the degree of interference of the subject and the recipient in the structure of the object, its collagelike and temporary nature, external appearance, the way of functioning in space, the location on the axis of utilitarian / aesthetic), the author tries to extract those aspects of materiality that determine the status object. As it turns out in the case of some conceptual works, it is difficult to distinguish clearly between their artistic and “smart” dimensions. It leads to the elimination of the boundaries between art and non-art, but it also contributes to the conviction that the material nature of the object itself is in a way a guarantee of the “conceptual” character of the work, especially in the era of the dominance of the digital circulation.

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Wiersz, czyli sytuacja rzeźbiarska O materialności Kordu Natalii Malek

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Trzeciak K.

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2018

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vol. 11

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issue 1

191-200

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The article is an attempt at providing an interpretation of Natalia Malek’s work Kord in the context of sculpture and materiality. Starting from outlining a definition of a sculpture as a situation and a meeting, the author tries to demonstrate how a poetical language stages the sculptural, departing from the tradition of concrete poetry in favour of openness and potentiality of a poem. The essential contexts for the following argument are both elements of the study of objects and the feminist approach to corporality, which stimulate thinking in terms of the matter and materiality and enable us to interpret Malek’s project as addressing dualisms of Western metaphysics, as well as calling for a different type of reading. The category of “material vision” (de Man) is for the author of the article a point of departure, however, in result, it turns out to be insufficient and gives way to the project of reading understood as a “sculptural situation”.

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Co říká dům : možnosti k symetrickému přístupu k materialitě domova

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Pauknerová K.

Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)

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2014

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vol. 101

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issue 4

439-458

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The article discusses the possibility of a symmetrical approach in the anthropological study of the materiality of home. After an overview of the development in material culture studies and anthropological research of home, the author discusses two examples of anthropological writing about home: a description of home from Margaret Mead´s autobiography and Inge Daniels´ contemporary anthropological study from Japan.

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Music and Youth in Brazilian Contemporary Society

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Barbosa L., Veloso L., Dubeux V.

International Review of Social Research

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2012

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vol. 2

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issue 1

29-46

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Based on qualitative and quantitative research with 1,080 youth in the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Porto Alegre, this article analyzes the role of music in the constitution of young people's everyday lives. Focusing on how youth obtain, store, and listen to music, as well as on how they describe the presence of music in their lives, we argue that music – facilitated by digital technology – permeates and gives meaning to young people's lives in a way more pervasive than ever before, to the extent that, in their words, it constitutes the ‘soundtrack’ of each individual life. We propose to understand this puzzling statement through a material culture framework, and to do so we ask: how do youth currently give meaning to music as a key feature of life, and how do music and the objects through which it is experienced constitute life as such?

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Verflechtung von Bild und Text

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Żebrowska E.

Acta Neophilologica

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2012

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issue XIV/2

109-119

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The discussion initiated in the 1960s by McLuhan concerning the interrelationship between what is said (orality) and what is written (literacy) has been replaced by a new approach focusing on the connection between image and text. This shift of attention results, among others, from the increasing role of technical media and computers and the decreasing role of the traditional written culture in the shape of books and print. The contemporary media are becoming something more than just a passive tool for information transmission. The text and the word itself are undergoing technologization, as Walter Ong, has put it, and they are often accompanied by the image. Linguistics cannot ignore these changes, and investigates the evolving materiality of communication, focusing on design, the so-called text performance, visual layer, and the whole emerging from both the image and text. The last two are becoming so strictly connected, especially in internet hypertexts, that the phrase “iconic turn” is often used. Apart from that, there appears text fragmentation, which leads to changes in the process of reception: ordinary reading recedes replaced by holistic reading (based on whole images).

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Journeys of Becoming: Hair, the Blogosphere and Theopoetics in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah

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Darroch F.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture

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2020

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issue 10

135-150

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Americanah provides provocative reflections on intertextuality and becoming by exploring the potentially transformative power of “blog-writing.” Through a combined reading of Mayra Rivera’s Poetics of the Flesh and Adichie’s Americanah, this article details intersections between the virtual and the material; writing in the (imagined “other-wordly”) blogosphere about the organic matter of hair. The narrator of the novel, Ifemelu, establishes a blog after she shares her story to decide to stop using relaxants and to allow her hair to be natural, via an online chat-room; she refuses to go through ritual performances in order to succeed as a migrant in America. In this article I argue that Adichie’s detailing of Ifemelu’s relationship with her hair explores the way in which creative practice, or poetics, is intimately connected to the journey of our flesh; social history is marked on our bodies. The blog becomes a confessional which details the demeaning effect that social constructions of race have had on her body. But the blog ultimately becomes self-destructive. It is only when Ifemelu returns to Nigeria that she embodies the transformative and cathartic power of contemporary modes of story-telling, and where she is finally able to “spin herself into being.”

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Karteziánská subjektivita podle „raného“ Levinase

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Starzyński W.

Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)

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2014

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vol. 62

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issue 2, Special No: Za hranicemi tváře. Levinas a socialita

83-97

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In this text we aim to analyze the Cartesian motifs in the “early” period of Emmanuel Levinas’s thought. Our goal is to explore whether Levinas’s Cartesianism is merely a singular phenomenon, or if it can be set into the wider current of “phenomenologi-cal Cartesianism”. In order to confirm the second possibility, it seems that we must reconstruct the motifs, continuing in Descartes’s specific line of argumentation, which we can directly designate as the “Cartesian way”. These Cartesian motifs can be found in Levinas’s wider context of the issue of subjectivity, and it is these deliberations that form the structure in which the famous formulation of the definition of infinity is made. The first text in which we attempt to identify this general structure that Des-cartes provides for Levinas’s thought and the function that it fulfills in it is Description of Existence. The second motif is Cartesian subjectivity in the book Existence and Existents.

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Od edycji limitowanej do galeryjnej. Wstęp do „materialnej” teorii komiksu

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Żaglewski T.

Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich

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2018

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vol. 61

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issue 1(125)

127-139

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The article is an attempt to understand the need to develop methodological and theoretical tools for defining and underlining the meaning of a comic book’s material quality. Assuming that the modern tactile and sensual aspects of a physical manifestation of the comic book medium are becoming one of its most important specifics, then the author, is trying to explore the scientific consequences of a turn towards focusing on the “materialistic” inside the comic book industry. With full understanding of that matter then a starting point for a discussion can be made about the more general offensive of printed publications against ongoing virtualization, or de-materialization of written texts.

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Archeologies of the recent past and the Soviet remains of the cold war in Poland: a case study of Brzeźnica-Kolonia, Kłomino and Borne Sulinowo

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Kobiałka D., Kajda K., Frąckowiak M.

Sprawozdania Archeologiczne

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2015

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vol. 67

9–22

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In this paper we analyze three places extensively used by the Soviets in Poland during the Cold War: Brzeźnica-Kolonia, Kłomino and Borne Sulinowo. We treat these places and artefacts found there as heritage. However, instead of calling for their urgent preservation, we try to argue that heritage does not need to be perceived as a dead past. Material culture and material transformations in landscapes of the recent past last and survive their own times. The goal of this paper is to pay archaeological attention to the duration of the things and landscapes from the recent past in the present.

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A Process of Glocalisation? Roman Marble Imports and the Rise of Blocked-Out Capitals in Local Stone

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Grawehr M.

Światowit

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2019

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vol. 58

33-45

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In the Augustan Age, a new aesthetic preference was propagated in the Roman Empire – the surface of white marble was valued as it symbolised the strength and superiority of the ‘new age’. Soon, an immense trade in high quality marble over land and sea developed to meet the emergent demand. While the development and scale of this trade is well studied, the repercussions that the new aesthetic preference had on the local architectural traditions in areas where no marble was close at hand is not commonly considered. In this contribution, two developments are traced, taking the Corinthian capital as the leitmotif. First, in the short period between c. 40 and 10 BC, patrons would choose imitation of marble in plaster to meet up with the demands of the new standard and to demonstrate their adherence to the Empire. In the second line of development, a different path was taken – a conscious use of local materials which went hand in hand with the development of a new type of capital, the so-called ‘Nabataean blocked-out’ capital. This combination turned into a new vernacular tradition across large parts of the eastern Mediterranean. Both developments were local responses to a new ‘global’ trend and can therefore be viewed as a phenomenon of glocalisation in the Roman Period.

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Historia ludzi, historia rzeczy – humanizacja przedmiotów a praktykowanie dziedzictwa. Przykład Tykocina na Podlasiu

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Jaworowska J.

Rocznik Antropologii Historii

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2016

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issue 9, Dziedzictwo kulturowe

187–203

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n the following article I discuss the role that materiality plays in mediations of the past in the present via cultural and educational heritage practices. I do so based on my research among three cultural institutions operating in Tykocin, a small town situated in north-eastern Poland. I start by critically examining current theoretical perspectives on heritage and materiality. Next, I show how in Tykocin historical objects influence the process of establishing relationships with the past and take part in shaping narrations about town’s history. I focus especially on historical buildings and urban sites. Last but not least, I study how employees and members of the three cultural institutions try to supervise the agency of the historical objects.

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Hipostaza, ateista i Sługa Jahwe, czyli trzy koncepcje samotności w filozofii Emmanuela Levinasa.

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Jędraszewski M.

Filozofia Chrześcijańska

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2015

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vol. 12

129-145

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Solitude is, to some measure, in the centre of Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy. Indeed, in each of the three periods of his philosophical path, solitude adopts a different shape. In the first period, Levinas shows us hypostasis as the solitude of the monad, tragically enclosed within itself. In the second period he sketches before our eyes the image of solitude as a transcendental condition of the occurrence of encounter with the Other. Whereas in the third period, he asserts the solitude of the subject who is infinitely responsible for Others. Admittedly, the term “solitude” (la solitude) appears only in the first period of his philosophical quest. In the second period, he designates solitude by the terms “separation” (la séparation), while in the third period he calls it “selfness” (le Soi). Although Levinas uses those three distinct terms, which might suggest completely different realities, they converge precisely in what constitutes the substantial richness of the experience of solitude.

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„Rzeczy warszawskie” – nowa odsłona Muzeum Warszawy

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Markowska A.

Artium Quaestiones

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2018

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issue 29

209-228

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A radical reconstruction of the exposition layout at the Museum of the City of Warsaw, connected with the general reconstruction of the facilities and retirement of its longtime director, Janusz Durko (1951-2003), resulted in 2017 in opening a new permanent exposition called Things from Warsaw. The exposition consists of 21 cabinets containing 8 000 items selected out of 300 000 included in the museum holdings (e. g., Cabinet of Warsaw Monuments, Cabinet of Warsaw Silver and Plate Tableware, Cabinet of the Warsaw Sirens, Cabinet of Postcards, Cabinet of Souvenirs, Cabinet of Shrines). The main criterion was the materiality and authenticity of particular items, which resulted in the absence of multimedia presentations and suggested “appropriate” narratives. The main curator of the exposition is Jarosław Trybuś, art historian and curator rewarded with the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2008. His team followed an idea of Bjørnar Olsen that due to various conceptualizations the material world studied by the humanities has been so dematerialized that we can hardly believe our eyes. Thus the features of the exposition – sincerity, seriousness, and modesty – suggest a new approach to the city’s history through experiencing the reality of things treated not so much as “witnesses,” but rather as “actors” of the past events. This turn to materiality stems from the hope to come close to the things without the mediation of words imposing predictable interpretations in advance. In other words, the exposition is a kind of lesson in openness, multidirectional reading, and the de-ideologization of history. The Things from Warsawexhibition has been analyzed in reference to three criteria: openness to the “other,” creating a vision of the future, and the inspiring power of imagination.

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Airborne Laser Scanning and 20th Century Military Heritage in the Woodlands

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Kobiałka D.

Analecta Archaeologica Ressoviensia

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2017

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vol. 12

247–270

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This paper discusses recent advancements in the context of modern conflict archaeology in the woodlands. One aspect of this development of archaeological research is a broad use and application of airborne laser scanning (ALS). Material remains of a forced labour camp and munitions depot in the forests around Gutowiec (Poland) known as Guttowitz 35 are used as a case study. After approaching prisoners’ memories concerning the site, the results of ALS combined with the outcomes of fieldwalking at the site are presented. This article tries to back up the following thesis: due to applications of non-invasive methods (e.g. ALS, fieldwalking), archaeology is able to offer a deeper understanding and contextualization of such sites as Guttowiec 35: a fresh insight into the materiality of conflict landscapes from the recent past in the woodlands.

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Budowanie państwa- stolica Kazachstanu i państwo jako konstrukt materialny

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Laszczykowski M.

Lud

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2015

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vol. 99

43-63

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In this article, I focus ethnographically on the construction boom in the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana, and the ‘state-building through building-work’ metaphor in Kazakhstani political discourse. I investigate the relations between the state, space, and materiality. In the Soviet period, the state was a material and social whole, bound together by diverse infrastructures. After perestroika, that whole disintegrated, as was made evident by the splitting up of production facilities and infrastructures. However, since around the year 2000, the construction of the new capital has become a process of the reconstruction, at once material and metaphorical, of the state. Astana became the destination for hundreds of thousands of internal migrants, Kazakhstani citizens. For many, participating in the making of the new capital became a way to regain a sense of agentive subjectivity. The construction process and spectacular new buildings make the state the object of emotional involvement: hope, pride, and identifi cation. On the other hand, protracted construction and its inherent contradictions give rise to disillusionment and doubts as to the working of the state. In sum, in this article I point to the materiality of buildings and infrastructures as what lends a tangible reality to the state and allows for it to be infused with diverse, often mutually contradictory emotions.

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Local Memory and Urban Space

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Łupienko A.

Acta Poloniae Historica

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2023

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vol. 126

5-28

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The paper ponders over the issue of memory and urban space. It shows how these categories have been discussed in the literature and how they are connected to the problem of place identity. The paper also highlights the need to appreciate and assess the physical aspect of objects, which act as memory markers in the urban space. The author argues that what is being memorialised and conveyed as meaning is the past lived experience. As a case in point, two memory acts are analysed in the paper, clearly showing the interdependence of various temporalities in the anniversary celebrations. In the festivities celebrating the 100th (in 1881) and 150th (in 1931/2) anniversaries of the consecration of the Lutheran church in Warsaw, the capital of the Kingdom of Poland in the Russian partition and later the capital of a resurrected independent Polish state after 1918, the different present-oriented needs were mirrored in the narratives and commemorations of the past. Idiosyncratic visions of the past help make the small and vulnerable community of Lutherans in an otherwise primarily Roman Catholic environment more coherent, as its members may lay claim to history and construct and stabilise their identification process as descendants of past generations. Moreover, the material fabric of the church seems to be an indispensable factor. The parishioners’ lived experience appears to be a crucial component of commemorations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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THE WORD IN THE WORLD: SEAMUS HEANEY AND THE SEARCH FOR PALPABLE LANGUAGE

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Pietrzak W.

Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny

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2018

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issue 1

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Sound Art: materialność dźwięku

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Sitko A.

ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura

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2016

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issue 33

EN

Sound art is a term used to classify works which incorporate sound as the main artistic means of communication with the audience. If we look at the presence of sound in art from a historical viewpoint, our attention can be drawn by Cabaret Voltaire and the performances of Dadaist on its stage. Sound became also an element of performances, and constituted an integral part of many of them. However, it only accompanied the artworks and was not an independent object of art. The text focuses on materiality which is an integral part of Sergei Tcherepin’s sound artworks. In his artworks, a material object and sound constitute a specific unity.

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Sound art to pojęcie określające prace, w których dźwięk jest dominującym środkiem artystycznym. Z historycznego punktu widzenia, naszą uwagę może przyciągnąć Cabaret Voltaire i występy dadaistów na jego scenie. Dźwięk stał się też elementem performansów i stanowił integralną część wielu z nich. Jednakże stanowił element „towarzyszący”, a nie był samodzielnym „obiektem” sztuki. Artykuł skupia się na materialnym elemencie towarzyszącym pracom Sergeia Tcherepina, amerykańskiego artysty, którego twórczość zaliczana jest do sound art. W jego pracach materialny obiekt i dźwięk stanowią swoistą jedność.

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Pedagogika rzeczy (nie tylko) konsumowanych

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Chutorański M., Makowska A.

Parezja. Czasopismo Forum Młodych Pedagogów przy Komitecie Nauk Pedagogicznych PAN

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2016

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vol. 1

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W prezentowanym artykule stawiamy pytanie o to, czym są rzeczy w świecie nieustannego konsumowania. Stawiamy tezę, że rozumienie materialności jako obiektów konsumpcji nie pozwala dostrzec złożonych (także edukacyjnych) relacji między ludźmi i rzeczami. W pierwszej części tekstu stawiamy pytanie o to, czym są rzeczy, jeśli patrzy się na nie oczami krytyka konsumpcji, oraz wskazujemy niektóre ograniczenia tej perspektywy. Następnie uwypuklamy potrzebę pedagogiki rzeczy, tj. takiej refleksji nad rzeczami w procesach edukacyjnych, która podkreśla ich rolę we wspomaganiu ludzkiego rozwoju.

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In this article we pose the question about the essence of things in the world of continuous consumption. We formulate a thesis that understanding materiality as the objects of consumption does not allow us to perceive complex (including educational aspect) relationships between human beings and things. In the first part of the article, we ask what things are through the perspective of critics of consumerism and point out some limitations of this perspective. In the last part of the article, we emphasize the need for pedagogy of things i.e. the reflection on things in educational processes that focuses on their role in supporting human development.

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Czy Bruno Latour testuje Rema Koolhaasa i co z tego dla nowej humanistyki wynika?

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Matysek-Imielińska M.

Prace Kulturoznawcze

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2019

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vol. 23

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issue 1

105-114

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One of today’s most famous architects, Rem Koolhaas, tackles the problem of architectural objects as networked and transformable processes — not only structural, but also social and political ones. Bruno Latour, in turn, who is a sociologist, is constructing this time a theory — a weapon/ a new tool which will help architects move objects which so far have been static (“Give me a gun and I will make all the buildings move”) and design them in a non-Euclidean space. Theoretically, Latour — by “tapping lightly on Koolhaas’s architecture with a blind person’s cane” — proves once again that we have never been modern and, on the other hand, proposes to look at the design process in such a manner as to see the public character of things, discover the agency of non-human actors. What is the result of Latour’s collaboration with Koolhaas? Will the considerations of a practitioner and a theoretician, an architect and a sociologist prove to be an important contribution to the revision of cultural expressions? In my article, in the spirit of critical reflection on the myth of a lonely genius, I shall follow the demands of treating design as a collective process, networking the work of helpers and collaborators, data collectors and seekers of contexts. Are they really implemented in architectural practice? Is it really possible to talk about experimental methods of production and presentation of knowledge in this case?

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Smart obiekty w kontekście artefaktów awangardy i neoawangardy

Wiersz, czyli sytuacja rzeźbiarska O materialności Kordu Natalii Malek

Co říká dům : možnosti k symetrickému přístupu k materialitě domova

Music and Youth in Brazilian Contemporary Society

Verflechtung von Bild und Text

Journeys of Becoming: Hair, the Blogosphere and Theopoetics in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah

Karteziánská subjektivita podle „raného“ Levinase

Od edycji limitowanej do galeryjnej. Wstęp do „materialnej” teorii komiksu

Archeologies of the recent past and the Soviet remains of the cold war in Poland: a case study of Brzeźnica-Kolonia, Kłomino and Borne Sulinowo

A Process of Glocalisation? Roman Marble Imports and the Rise of Blocked-Out Capitals in Local Stone

Historia ludzi, historia rzeczy – humanizacja przedmiotów a praktykowanie dziedzictwa. Przykład Tykocina na Podlasiu

Hipostaza, ateista i Sługa Jahwe, czyli trzy koncepcje samotności w filozofii Emmanuela Levinasa.

„Rzeczy warszawskie” – nowa odsłona Muzeum Warszawy

Airborne Laser Scanning and 20th Century Military Heritage in the Woodlands

Budowanie państwa- stolica Kazachstanu i państwo jako konstrukt materialny

Local Memory and Urban Space

THE WORD IN THE WORLD: SEAMUS HEANEY AND THE SEARCH FOR PALPABLE LANGUAGE

Sound Art: materialność dźwięku

Pedagogika rzeczy (nie tylko) konsumowanych

Czy Bruno Latour testuje Rema Koolhaasa i co z tego dla nowej humanistyki wynika?