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David Bradshaw, Laura Marcus, Rebecca Roach (red), Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity

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Wylężek E.

ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura

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2018

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issue 38

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A critical note on: Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity, edited by David Bradshaw, Laura Marcus and Rebecca Roach. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2916.

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Nota krytyczna poświęcona książce: Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity pod redakcją Davida Bradshawa, Laury Marcus i Rebekki Roach. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2916.

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Cisza, która brzmi inaczej. O przyjaźni Bataille'a i Blanchota

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Krzykawski M.

ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura

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2016

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issue 33

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This article deals with silence in which one may see the main feature of friendship between Georges Bataille and Maurice Blanchot and the basis of literary friendship further developed by Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy. Since silence is analysed here as something that one can keep but also pass over, friendship somehow appears as the effect of overcommenting and can be interpreted as mythologem. The shape of the latter largely results from comments by Blanchot and other commentators who invoke him. In consequence, taken from Bataille, the notion of friendship loses its significance and comes to assume different meanings, including contradictory ones. Friendship between Bataille and Blanchot starts when a biographical fact turns to a literary fact and then comes back as a as form of thought. This article aims at revising the philological value of the latter in order to reveal what silence may hide.

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Celem niniejszego artykułu jest uczynienie z ciszy głównego wyznacznika przyjaźni, która łączy Georges’a Bataille’a i Maurice’a Blanchota, a w kontekście współczesnej myśli francuskiej może być uznana za fundament literackiej przyjaźni rozwijanej, między innymi, przez Jacques’a Derridę i Jeana-Luca Nancy’ego. Ponieważ cisza jest tutaj traktowana na dwa sposoby – jako milczenie i przemilczenie, przyjaźń jawi się jako efektem przerostu komentarza i może być rozpatrywana jako mitologem. Jego kształt został uformowany w dużej mierze przez komentarze Blanchota, a następnie za sprawą kolejnych komentatorów, którzy się na nie powoływali. W wyniku tego mechanizmu, wyjęte z myśli Bataille’a pojęcie przyjaźni uległo desemantyzacji i stało się terminem pustym, który mógł następnie nabrać dowolnych znaczeń, nie wyłączając znaczeń przeciwnych. Przyjaźń Bataille’a i Blanchota zaczyna się w momencie, w którym fakt biograficzny zmienia się w fakt literacki, by następnie wrócić pod postacią myśli. Dzisiaj pozostaje nam jednak zrewidować jej filologiczną wartość, by dostrzec to, co skrywa cisza.

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Er(r)go...

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Kalaga W.

ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura

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2017

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Er(r)go… , difficult, difficult times for the humanities, “frail and divided within,” difficult for literary studies, bound by “an ontological corset.” And then, the theoretical impasse: the question about the epistemological potential of the poststructuralist paradigm. Farewell to Derrida? The French theory – an American construct. How to think: ahead or backwards? And Nietzsche is best treated with Nietzsche. Is “prosopopeia of another’s tongue” leading us towards or away from the humanities?Turns, paradigm changes, turns, returns – with corrections – and best of all, a turn away from all turns and a return to philology. The appetite for philology and close-reading is growing. Read, one must read and observe texts in the world. Here arises a dispute over the reading distance – which kind of reading is superior? Close, long, or perhaps middle-distance? And how to distinguish literature from the description of soil erosion in Nebraska? Ask Eagleton. And what if interpretation is an expression of naivety and exaltation? Get to work, literary studies! To work as a text-process, not merely a text-result, to writing, not merely to reading. Here lies the pleasure of pre-texts, consorting with the draft, surrounded by fore-texts, draft projections, draft pre-incarnations of the text, draft close-reading, studying the draft, draft history of the text, meta-draft research and Polish draft studies. The genetics of text and genetics of prints; the flowing and ebbing of meaning, hermeneutics of invention, uncertain determinations. The responsibility of “the I-who-reads” towards the “I-who-is-read.” In the meantime, the death of a professional critic, because who needs literary criticism today? Social redundancy? Where are the critics who understand their task as metaphysical – as serving the word of the Other? In their place, weak professionalism. Atrophy of literary communication, a deluge of quasi-literary works, pauperization of the readers’ competence. So, the idiom of slack (for masses), or a voice of reflection? “A vigorous corpse” in the gray zone between the market and the university. Liberation? But, at the end of the day, the return to centralism.Birth of the author, when was that? And now, after his own death, the author finally returns (the assassin resting in his grave for years). It is now possible to peep on the writer in a closed room, as if in a psycho-anthropological laboratory, and search for the universal laws of human creativity. But one must be careful: after death, the archive is not a workshop; a workshop is always dynamic. Herbert’s vertical notes and the “spreading of the great parable,” five loose pages, Nepenthes Family and Linnaeus, and earlier, a notebook. “Revisionary expanse” of Virginia Woolf’s archive. McLuhan, Gutenberg and a typographical man. Packaged doses of philosophy, the book as a very problematic device and a fatal medium. McLuhan talks to Playboy reporter and Pascal lies down on the Gutenbergian Procrustean bed to torture his own spirit. A fractioned man, dismembered by the alphabet, sliced into pieces by print. Streams of knowledge, like grape must, flowing from under the press (printing one, naturally).And here and there, semiotic absolutism, theoretical dogmatism, the hope of saving one’s own name, cultural recontextualisations, a young wife and ridiculous interpretative errors, cultural studies over copyright, doxa as the voice of the people, medialised and mediatised mind of don Quixote, the art of textual analysis like folk dancing, becoming similarly extinct, a sovereign reader, a pink pirate and the praise of the unproductive. And the subject is travelling from Silesia to Warsaw through Ustrzyki Dolne.The present issue is guest-edited by Professor Adrian Gleń from the University of Opole, Poland.Wojciech Kalaga

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Jakiego literaturoznawstwa potrzebujemy? Uwagi wstępne

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Gleń A.

ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura

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2017

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issue 34

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Introductory remarks on the literary scholarship in the future: prolegomena to the questions raised in the present issue of Er(r)go.

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An introductory reflection upon the literary scholarship of the future.

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Lewacka sałata. Ekonomiczne aspekty weg*anizmu

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Alicja Węcławiak A.

ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura

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2019

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issue 38

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Vegetarianism is – simply speaking – not eating meat. Veganism is a bit more radical option – it is not just not eating meat, but generally animal products: eggs, milk, dairy products, honey. These are relatively simple definitions for these types of diets. However, the problem begins when we define vegetarianism or veganism as a type of diet. Vegetarianism and veganism are therefore not only related to food, we can already speak of a certain lifestyle understood primarily as “the size and form of consumption.” In my article I want to follow the motives behind choosing this type of diet and to reflect not only on the health but also on the cultural aspects of veganism. There are more and more vegetarian and vegan products, new restaurants and fast food restaurants, if not completely vegetarian or vegan, at least including meatless or simply vegetable dishes in their menu. Multitudes of forums and online communities, YouTube channels and blogs with vegetable recipes are multiplying. All this lets us wonder whether the vegetarian/vegan diet has become something of a fashion that will soon pass or whether there are other reasons, and if so, what these reasons are.

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Wegetarianizm to – najkrócej rzecz ujmując – niejedzenie mięsa. Weganizm jest nieco bardziej radykalną opcją – to nie tylko niespożywanie mięsa, ale generalnie produktów zwierzęcych: jajek, mleka, nabiału, miodu. Są to stosunkowo proste definicje dla tych rodzajów diet. Problem zaczyna się jednak już wtedy, kiedy określimy wegetarianizm czy weganizm rodzajem diety. Wegetarianizm i weganizm nie jest więc jedynie związany z jedzeniem, można mówić tu już o pewnym stylu życia rozumianym przede wszystkim jako „rozmiary i forma konsumpcji”. W swoim wystąpieniu chcę prześledzić pobudki, jakie stoją za wyborem tego rodzaju diety – zdrowie stanowi jedną z nich – a także poddać refleksji nie tylko zdrowotne, ale także kulturowe aspekty weg*anizmu. Na rynku obecnych jest coraz więcej produktów wegetariańskich i wegańskich, z dużą częstotliwością powstają też nowe restauracje, a nawet lodziarnie czy fast foody, o ile nie całkowicie wege lub wega, o tyle włączające do swojego menu potrawy bezmięsne czy po prostu warzywne. Mnożą się wege fora i społeczności internetowe, kanały na YouTube oraz blogi z przepisami kuchni roślinnej. Wszystko to pozwala zastanawiać się, czy dieta wege/wega stała się czymś w rodzaju mody, która w niedługim czasie przeminie czy też przemawiają za tym także inne względy, a jeśli tak, to jakie.

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Er(r)go...

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Kalaga W. w.

ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura

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2019

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Er(r)go..., time for a leftist salad. Above all, an animal matter, a serious matter: animalcide, animal harm and our moral cowardice, institutionalized butchering, vertical farming, intensive farming, live non-life of animals, a bird hecatomb, chickens burned at stake in Asia, festivals of dog meat in China, de-animalization of animals and ontological degradation of animal beings, animal lumpenproletariat. In the background, a historical march of everyday people for animal protein, and animals marching to slaughter, all in even step. Still, meat absorbs all suffering. Animals ask questions of us: What do we eat when we eat – Körper or Leib? And are nonhuman animals “non-personal subjects of law” or “movable goods”? Somebody hesitates: scrambled tofu instead of scrambled eggs? And different attempts at an answer: vegetarianism, semi-vegeterianism, flexitarianism, abolitionism, reductionism, ingredientism, reductarianism, pro-topian model of moral progress, vistopia, carnism and neo-carnism, veganism, cheating vegetarianism, lazy veganism, identity veganism, revisionary political veganism, boycott veganism, ethical veganism, Ko sisters’ black veganism, naïve veganism and, finally, how else: post-veganism. All of this in the heat of battle: against species chauvinism, speciesim, food slavery, sexism, racism, homophobia and classism. Somebody states: a philosophy which feels the world is needed, not hermetic mumbo-jumbo. And that is the new question: to beat or not to beat? Between texts and within them, various things happen. Aesthetes aestheticize life, white middle class appropriates ethical space, ethnocentric epistemologies of ignorance become apparentin vegan practices, vege-forums multiply, vegans demonstrate moral superiority over non-vegans, the Real becomes that which always returns to the same place, “but” gains a voice, the subject struggles with literalness, a poem battles against the infection of task-oriented thought, women who live without a partner eat less meat, somatic imagination turns to that which is hot and dry, animals, taking pity upon man’s ineptitude, sacrifice their flesh for food, the rich folks’ cows eat the bread of the poor, the number of people eating meat increases but chimpanzees prefer fruit with worms, and post-racial approach dominatesin vegan rhetoric. Meanwhile, Lacan forbids that which is impossible anyway, Freud divides the fellow neighbor into two parts, Henry Ford is inspired by the functioning of a slaughterhouse, Deleuze suggests the idea of universal meat, Marvin Harris battles for protein, the Central Market, a parody of a village marketplace, makes a mythological promise, one poet observes the world galled by linguistic clichés and pierces through the prosaic nature of plastic which does not give way to syntax. Coetzee in Texas rides a bike without his sandals, does not practice socialism or free love, does not take cold showers, does not eat meat, not even ribs or chicken. But he asks: four paws of one bear: what of the rest of the animal? And: what does an ox think of being taxonomized, without being consulted, as species of order lower than a bear. And how can the Meat Hall follow the spirit of times? Art does not stay behind. Vienna Actionists return again to eat excrements, to copulate with animals, to slaughter, to gut and to rip apart. Huan, dressed in a meat suit, strolls through the city streets, in paintings women and men wriggle on the floor amidst pieces of meat and bite raw pieces of chicken, Jana Sterbak sews a dress out of steaks, Jannis Kounellis hangs pieces of beef on hooks along the wall. Heide Hatry says “Heide, you pig!,” and Lucien Freud simply is meat. Meat is the fabric of art! – and the homeless have nothing to eat. Fortunately, a new form of life emerges from the poems of Bartczyk – szczeźnik [perisher] – already not a human and not an animal. We are accompanied in all this by various beings and nonbeings: an inferior being, cursed being, though not a cursed soldier, colonialism of beings, sacrifice-less meat, puremeat, meatless meat, 101.4 kg of meat per capita, capitalism with an animal face, secret vegan wars, grandma’s attitude towards meat, meaty connotations of masculinity, omnivore (omni?), 100 famous black vegans, cotton – an unethical vegan produce, “philosophical fragments on cats,” carnivorous character of subjectivity, an ethnoclass man, epistemological and ontological disobedience, ovo-lacto-fleshy excess, women – agents of change, technologically printed meat, our potential non non-humanity, inner life of animals, active ignorance, realistic utopias, celebritization of veganism, methodological tangles. Maybe these are all dubious beings-nonbeings; one fact, however, remains incontestable: the carnivorous fact. The carnivorous fact! The carnivorous fact! The carnivorous fact! Wojciech Kalagahttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-9734 P.S.: We wish to inform our Readers and Authors that – beginning with issue No. 40 (1/2020) – Er(r)go will become bilingual: we will be publishing articles in both Polish and English. The cover of this issue heralds these forthcoming changes.

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Er(r)go..., czas na lewacką sałatę. Przede wszystkim sprawa zwierzęca, sprawa poważna: zwierzobójstwo, krzywda zwierząt i nasze moralne tchórzostwo, zinstytucjonalizowane zarzynanie, chów wertykalny, hodowla intensywna, żywe nie-życie zwierząt, hekatomba ptaków, w Azji kury palone na stosie, festiwale psiego mięsa w Chinach, deanimalizacja zwierząt i ontologiczna degradacja bytów zwierzęcych, zwierzęcy lumpenproletariat. W tle historyczny marsz zwykłych ludzi po zwierzęce białko i zwierzęta idące na rzeź, wszyscy równym krokiem. A przecież mięso zachowuje całe cierpienie. Zwierzęta zadają nam pytania: Co jemy, gdy je jemy – Körper czy Leib? A zwierzęta pozaludzkie to „nieosobowe podmioty prawne” czy „rzeczy ruchome”? Ktoś się waha: może tofucznica zamiast jajecznicy? I różne próby odpowiedzi: wegetarianizm, semiwegetarianizm, fleksitarianizm, abolicjonizm, redukcjonizm, ingredientyzm, reduktarianizm, protopijny model postępu moralnego, wystopia, karnizm i neokarnizm, weganizm, cheating vegetarianism, lazy veganism, weganizm tożsamościowy, rewizyjny weganizm polityczny, weganizm bojkotowy, weganizm etyczny, czarny weganizm sióstr Ko, weganizm naiwny i w końcu, a jakże by inaczej, post-weganizm. Wszystko to w ogniu walki: z szowinizmem gatunkowym, z gatunkizmem, z niewolnictwem żywnościowym, z seksizmem, rasizmem, homofobią i klasizmem. Ktoś stwierdza: potrzebna filozofia czująca świat zamiast hermetycznej gadaniny. I oto nowe jest pytanie: bić albo nie bić? Między tekstami i w nich dzieją się przeróżne rzeczy. Pięknoduchy estetyzują życie, biała klasa średnia zawłaszcza przestrzeń etycznego, w praktykach wegańskich uwidaczniają się etnocentryczne epistemologie ignorancji, mnożą się wege fora, weganie demonstrują moralną wyższość wobec nie-wegan, Realne staje się tym, co zawsze wraca do tego samego miejsca, „ale” dochodzi do głosu, podmiot zmaga się z dosłownością, wiersz walczy z infekcją myślenia zadaniowego, kobiety mieszkające bez partnera jedzą mniej mięsa, wyobraźnia somatyczna zwraca się ku temu, co gorące i suche, zwierzęta, litując się nad nieporadnością człowieka, oddają mu swoje ciało na pokarm, krowy bogatych zjadają chleb biednych, liczba osób niejedzących mięsa wzrasta, ale szympansy wolą owoce z robakiem, zaś w retoryce wegańskiej dominuje podejście postrasowe. Tymczasem Lacan zakazuje czegoś, co i tak jest niemożliwe, Freud dzieli bliźniego na dwie części, Henry Ford inspiruje się sposobem funkcjonowania rzeźni, Deleuze proponuje ideę mięsa uniwersalnego, Marvin Harris walczy o białko, Central Market, parodia wiejskiego targowiska, składa mitologiczną obietnicę, a jeden poeta przygląda się światu toczonemu przez klisze językowe i przebija się przez prozaiczność plastiku, ale ten nie daje się składni. Cotzee w Texasie jeździ na rowerze bez sandałów, nie uprawia socjalizmu ani wolnej miłości, nie bierze zimnych pryszniców i nie je mięsa, nawet żeberek i kurczaka. Ale pyta: cztery łapy z jednego niedźwiedzia: a co z resztą zwierza? I jeszcze: co myśli wół zaliczony bez żadnej konsultacji z nim do gatunku niższego niż niedźwiedź? Jak Hala Mięsna ma iść z duchem czasu? Sztuka nie pozostaje w tyle. Akcjoniści Wiedeńscy powracają znów, by zjadać ekskrementy, kopulować ze zwierzętami, zarzynać, patroszyć i rozszarpywać. Huan ubrany w mięsny kombinezon przechadza się ulicami miasta, na obrazach kobiety i mężczyźni wiją się na podłodze wśród kawałków mięsa i gryzą surowe kawałki kurczaka, Jana Sterbak szyje sukienkę ze steków, Jannis Kounellis rozwiesza wzdłuż ścian na hakach kawały wołowiny, papież pojawia się na tle przepołowionego wołu, Heide Hatry powiada „Heide, ty świnio!”, a Lucien Freud po prostu jest mięsem. Mięso materiałem sztuki! – a bezdomni nie mają co jeść. Na szczęście w wierszach Bartczaka wyłania się nowa forma życia – szczeźnik – już nie człowiek ani nie zwierzę. Różne inne byty i nie-byty nam w tym wszystkim towarzyszą: byt pośledni, byt wyklęty, choć nie żołnierz, kolonialność bytów, mięso bezofiarne, mięso czyste, mięso bezmięsne, 101,4 kg mięsa na osobę, kapitalizm ze zwierzęcą twarzą, tajne wojny wegańskie, stosunek babci do jedzenia, mięsne konotacje męskości, wszystkożerca (wszystko?), 100 słynnych czarnych wegan, bawełna – nieetyczny produkt wegański, „okruchy filozoficzne o kotach”, mięsożerność podmiotowości, człowiek etnoklasowy, nieposłuszeństwo epistemologiczne i ontologiczne, owo-lakto-mięsny nadmiar, kobiety – agentki zmiany, technicznie drukowanie mięsa, nasza potencjalna nie nieludzkość, wewnętrzne życie zwierząt, aktywna ignorancja, realistyczne utopie, celebrytyzacja weganizmu, sploty metodologiczne. Może to byty nie-byty wątpliwe, ale jeden fakt nadal pozostaje bezsporny: fakt mięsożerny. Fakt mięsożerny! Fakt mięsożerny! Fakt mięsożerny! Wojciech Kalagahttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-9734 P.S. Pragniemy poinformować naszych Czytelników i Autorów, iż począwszy od numeru 40 (1/2020) „Er(r)go” stanie się pismem dwujęzycznym: będziemy publikować materiały w języku polskim i angielskim. Zwiastunem tych nadchodzących zmian jest okładka tego numeru.

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ER(R)GO nr 35 (2/2017) - kanon – ideologia – wartość

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Er(r)go R.

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Er(r)go… ,wars for the canon: timeless wisdom or a legitimization of social order? Canon warrants and symbolically represents the imagined unity of a nation and its universal humanist values – such is the military potential of culture. Spivak: „Canons secure institutions to the same degree as institutions secure canons.” Hermeneutics of suspicion and a selective tradition of canon, with a pinch of social justice. Indians reject rationalism and linearity, redefinitions and paradigm changes are thus necessary. Perhaps canon as an intercultural dialogue: a white American, slave narratives and Indians’ ecosystemic, non-anthropocentric vision of the world, and also gender, other races, mixed breeds, diversity, and Jhumpa Lahiri. What about aesthetics? Ethics? Best to replace canon with canon without smoothing out the rough grain of politics and history. Synchronic and diachronic multiplication of canon.Further on, Różewicz’s exits: beyond collectivism, beyond singularity, beyond avant-garde, out of himself into nothing. Autotelic, indeterminate, elusive Różewicz. Repeated and inconclusive disappearance. Różewicz’s recycling and outrageously young poets. Różewicz as a letter of the poetic alphabet, and a paradoxical rigorist, and a realist, and a moralist, and the destroyer of canons, a wanderer through the spaces of canons reversed. And, at the end of the day, “there is no exit.” There is “poetry of trash dumps.” And is poetry actually edible, or not? Fairy tale registers and the glocalization of fairy tales. Do fairy tales have their canon? Fairy tale narratives and re-narratives. Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood, and Snow White frolic in the canon. Little Red Riding Hood dies and defeats two wolves. Mother-in-law devours the children of the Sleeping Beauty, father forces Cinderella to marry him, little pigeons peck out her stepsisters’ eyes (only one each), Gretel stabs Baba Yaga with a knife and Hansel persuades the giant to cut the throats of his own children, and can become an SS-Mann at last. And ultimately, one can make money on fairy tales.What is the odour of being? Better not to smell. Cibulka with a bandaged penis – unrestrained creativity. Primal excess, danse macabre, self-aggression, obscenity, iconoclasm, scatology, killing animals. A kick in the butt of perverted dwarves and knödel fight in Vienna. A ban on monogamy. Murder is art: someone butchers a pig in bed. We are looking at a cheap landschaft of a mythical land of happiness with brown past. Orgy as a sacrament of existence. Visual grammar – body as intention, event, result. What of the soul? Do frogs have souls? Does a soul have gender? Aesthetization of a woman, who does not know metaphysics. Women’s sharp minds – ignorance does not lead to salvation. To have time or to live it? The spacing of time and the timing of space. The culture of a nanosecond – network as a detemporalized successor of the clock; eternal present; time as a frozen river. And in the knot of the tale, the protagonist can meet himself. How to record a tape for one’s younger self and how to warn it? Rigorous logic in an impossible plot, and the subject – a shuffled pile of photographs. Cliffordian ethics of belief, evidentialism, epistemic audacity, beliefs, meta-beliefs, sub-beliefs, ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat, a mountaineer’s leap over the chasm and the salvation of people on Earth. The canon of computer games; good games need no saving, as they save themselves, poor games should not be saved. Curious: when it becomes part of the canon, a work dies and ceases to exist; a work which does not belong to the canon dies and ceases to exist. Illusions of choice.Wojciech Kalaga

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ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura

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issue 37

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Er(r)go…,the time of masks we conceal up our sleeves. No, it is rather they who conceal us up their sleeves. And behind them loiter and hide identities: national identity, leprous identity, true identity, madmen’s identity, heroic nationalist-romantic identity, Jewish identity, web identity, multiplied identity, European identity, nomadic identity, own identity, identity from transitory stages, multiple identity, posthumanist identity, player’s identity, probabilistic identity as a result of biomedicalization, doors opening and closing between selves. Inner and outer self. What of death? Death is only a door, too.Fortunately, there is also the body and common dress-ups-what to cover, what to conceal? The naked body cannot be easily tamed, as it is innately half-closed, capricious and irrational. The military arrives to assist us-perfectly synchronized corporals, experts in vodka, copulation and sudden death. Oh, the fragility of naked, ephemeral military bodies, those military buttocks; yet they are only living archives of learned gestures. Biopolitics and biopower: a private body turns into a public one, and in spite of this, five Cezarys wearing sport clothing face the commission in pursuit of the unreachable A category. All of this is between theater, ballet and military range.In the meantime, an ongoing debate between the Id and the Superego, the reality ferments to become panmasquarade, and pan-irony emanates from monistic substance, the depth covers the surface, secular humanism scrutinizes and questions itself, making the effort at a non-binary being “in-between,” Tłuja masturbates on the rubbish dump, Pan defecates in the wild garden, and a mentally handicapped peripatetic philosopher wanders among the Drohobian youth, a priest does not believe in his religion and steals his lover’s money to buy vodka, outstanding artists offer empty shells, Schulz as a fluid authorial substance stands against a (broken) mirror, then he writes and covers, here and there rove pathetic carriers of barrel organs, antecedents have their “consequences which crowd thickly, step on one another’s toes, with no space and no gap,” patient no. 23 quietly spins his yarn, then screams something to the scoundrels, fluid substances laugh at the mask, Thoreau plays house, endowment fund of the spirit brings no interest, aesthetic values become polarized, postsecular confessions of faith remain uncertain, scarred and ambiguous, the play of inner beauty and external ugliness continues. And the limits of humanity keep on extending.Various characters wander among these tales: masked avengers, bats and spiders, constructions of vapours and rags, Thoreau’s avatar, liminal heroes, a circulatory semiotic system, the boundlessness of potential semiosis, cancerous growths of chaotic potentiality and the dark, life-giving womb, Schulz-hereticrat, proud fryers of Jews, Henri Michaux as fuel for argument (ugh!), clones, avatars, self-aware artificial intelligence, genetically modified mutants, a face devoid of gender, individuals separated from their time-space continuum, pointillist mosaic, an insubordinate child of modernism-fascinated Taishō era, a dwarf as a beautiful and fascinating monstrosity, a dwarf within us, Japanese vodyanoys: kappas and uberkappas, a nameless nebula, an avatar of nothing which carries within a promise of everything, a nagging absence of studies on a dwarf (so nagging, indeed!), hybrid psyche, probabilistic subjectivity, souls like clouds, semi-anthropoid creatures, divine pulsations of influx and ebb, a performative mask, the humps of exile, a negative of the righteous man, religious fundamentalism and secular mind, the blackmail of the Enlightenment, a Jew dressed up as a Jew, calumnies, an aged back of a Jewish child, a neurasthenic back crowned with a hump, multimedia diet, downwards and upwards conflation, medicalization of childhood, mixed aphasia as a loss of a mask, a vulpine physiognomy of the father, fanatically dialectical thinking, voluntary eugenics, oppressiveness of history and progress, the archetypal meaning of a basement and uberpuppet.Such times! Mechanistic time, linear time, human time, physics’ time, evolutionary time, digital time, compressed time, cybertime, the web’s time, digitime, now-time, empty time, messianic time, the mythical time of the Great Return-the return of difference and contingency, and finally, the eternal present. Meanwhile, the subject is naked.Somebody shouts: “Without a costume I am nothing!” What about us?Wojciech Kalaga

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Wojciech KalagaInstytut Kultur i Literatur AnglojęzycznychUniwersytet Śląski w KatowicachEr(r)go…,the time of masks we conceal up our sleeves. No, it is rather they who conceal us up their sleeves. And behind them loiter and hide identities: national identity, leprous identity, true identity, madmen’s identity, heroic nationalist-romantic identity, Jewish identity, web identity, multiplied identity, European identity, nomadic identity, own identity, identity from transitory stages, multiple identity, posthumanist identity, player’s identity, probabilistic identity as a result of biomedicalization, doors opening and closing between selves. Inner and outer self. What of death? Death is only a door, too.Fortunately, there is also the body and common dress-ups-what to cover, what to conceal? The naked body cannot be easily tamed, as it is innately half-closed, capricious and irrational. The military arrives to assist us-perfectly synchronized corporals, experts in vodka, copulation and sudden death. Oh, the fragility of naked, ephemeral military bodies, those military buttocks; yet they are only living archives of learned gestures. Biopolitics and biopower: a private body turns into a public one, and in spite of this, five Cezarys wearing sport clothing face the commission in pursuit of the unreachable A category. All of this is between theater, ballet and military range.In the meantime, an ongoing debate between the Id and the Superego, the reality ferments to become panmasquarade, and pan-irony emanates from monistic substance, the depth covers the surface, secular humanism scrutinizes and questions itself, making the effort at a non-binary being “in-between,” Tłuja masturbates on the rubbish dump, Pan defecates in the wild garden, and a mentally handicapped peripatetic philosopher wanders among the Drohobian youth, a priest does not believe in his religion and steals his lover’s money to buy vodka, outstanding artists offer empty shells, Schulz as a fluid authorial substance stands against a (broken) mirror, then he writes and covers, here and there rove pathetic carriers of barrel organs, antecedents have their “consequences which crowd thickly, step on one another’s toes, with no space and no gap,” patient no. 23 quietly spins his yarn, then screams something to the scoundrels, fluid substances laugh at the mask, Thoreau plays house, endowment fund of the spirit brings no interest, aesthetic values become polarized, postsecular confessions of faith remain uncertain, scarred and ambiguous, the play of inner beauty and external ugliness continues. And the limits of humanity keep on extending.Various characters wander among these tales: masked avengers, bats and spiders, constructions of vapours and rags, Thoreau’s avatar, liminal heroes, a circulatory semiotic system, the boundlessness of potential semiosis, cancerous growths of chaotic potentiality and the dark, life-giving womb, Schulz-hereticrat, proud fryers of Jews, Henri Michaux as fuel for argument (ugh!), clones, avatars, self-aware artificial intelligence, genetically modified mutants, a face devoid of gender, individuals separated from their time-space continuum, pointillist mosaic, an insubordinate child of modernism-fascinated Taishō era, a dwarf as a beautiful and fascinating monstrosity, a dwarf within us, Japanese vodyanoys: kappas and uberkappas, a nameless nebula, an avatar of nothing which carries within a promise of everything, a nagging absence of studies on a dwarf (so nagging, indeed!), hybrid psyche, probabilistic subjectivity, souls like clouds, semi-anthropoid creatures, divine pulsations of influx and ebb, a performative mask, the humps of exile, a negative of the righteous man, religious fundamentalism and secular mind, the blackmail of the Enlightenment, a Jew dressed up as a Jew, calumnies, an aged back of a Jewish child, a neurasthenic back crowned with a hump, multimedia diet, downwards and upwards conflation, medicalization of childhood, mixed aphasia as a loss of a mask, a vulpine physiognomy of the father, fanatically dialectical thinking, voluntary eugenics, oppressiveness of history and progress, the archetypal meaning of a basement and uberpuppet.Such times! Mechanistic time, linear time, human time, physics’ time, evolutionary time, digital time, compressed time, cybertime, the web’s time, digitime, now-time, empty time, messianic time, the mythical time of the Great Return-the return of difference and contingency, and finally, the eternal present. Meanwhile, the subject is naked.Somebody shouts: “Without a costume I am nothing!” What about us?Wojciech Kalaga

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Wojciech KalagaInstitute of English Cultures and LiteraturesFaculty of PhilologyUniversity of Silesia in KatowicePoland Er(r)go... failure of speech – please be silent, because silence is the treasure hold of sounds, their saturation, the accumulation of tones. And further: active silence, the energy of silence, poetic language as the music of silence, the landscape of sound, silence of the plants, performativity of silence. Penetrating the silence, we reach the world of sound and of whatever is not silence: intonarumori – rumorarmonio, ululatori, rombator, scoppiatori, sibilatori. Murmurs, humming, noises, knocking, grinding, howling, groans, laughs, human and animal sounds, drones, clatter, din, boom, crash, creaking, scraping, rubbing, wheeze, hiss, gasp, ping, pop, machine music, tonal cords of words, the harmony of murmurs, vibrations and resonances, unwanted sounds. Reversing presence and absence – internal physiology, mute dramatization of the heart and the breath: noises, moaning, breathing in and breathing out, periodic cadence. Moans, grunts, billing, whizzing, blowing, quiet strikes of the upper and lower lips of the diva, quiet rubbing of the body of the instrument. Silence turns to thunder. Industrial noise: machines whizz, howl, boom, crash, groan, hiss, whistle, toll, hammer, clatter, grate, grind, beat, whir, hiss. Music as the effect of silence – it is the silence that gives the sounds their strength, makes the darkness less still, when the tiniest noise becomes a wraith. A silent piano – the art of noise and 4’33”. And several figures: Gerard Manley Hopkins, Salvatore Sciarrino, John Cage, Jacques Lacan, Arnold Schoenberg, Wassily Kandinsky, Maria Pappenheim, Anna O., Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Leris, Colette Peignot, Francesca Woodman, Bracha L. Ettinger, Tres, Dan Geva, Noit Geva, Gillian Wearing. Muzak. The audiosphere of communism: the singing, mystical body of the collective, the trumpet in the hands of a young ZMP zealot, the buzzing of flies, the jabber of the enemy. In addition, the voice as an incestual object. The transcendence of the sounds of the surrounding, the ringing in the ears, tinnitus, the musical rollercoaster, the funeral march at the burial of the deaf, a second so full that it does not fit into half an hour, cord as discord, the soundness of our bodies, the hum of a gesture, the noise of an object, electronic clatter and clamor, musical loops, drumming of fingers, recital of re-playing, The Banquets of Changing Moods, and, finally, embalming with sound. Friendship as silence; silence that speaks in order to hide better, a muted, ashen sweater, nonverbal torrent of words, reading with the ear, listening to the difference, hearing oneself. One must go beyond the staff. Muteness and dissemblance. Silence as power and a form of shaping bodies, the muting of buildings, the sucking out of sounds. Tacet. Silence does not exist. “In absolute silence, everyone will eventually hear something.” What do I hear? Wojciech Kalaga

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Przedmiotem rozważań jest teza Gianni Vattimo o konieczności racjonalizacji hermeneutyki ze względu na zarzucany jej relatywizm i estetyzm. Z tej perspektywy autor rozważa projekty proponowane przez Bartosza Brożka oraz Chrysostomosa Mantzavinosa, oparte na założeniu głoszącym, że zjawiska poznawcze leżące u podstaw rozumienia ludzkich zachowań oraz będących ich wynikiem artefaktów można opisać przy pomocy metod naturalistycznych. Na końcu bada, czy te próby, przychodzące spoza obszaru ruchu hermeneutycznego, dają nadzieję na wyeliminowanie wad hermeneutyki wymienianych przez Vattimo oraz jakie są perspektywy dalszych badań nad tym problemem.

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