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Starting from the contemporary trends in biography and referring to findings in the field of anthropology of writing and new materialism, the author analyzes poetic forms created in painting studios. She considers the works of O. Boznańska, W. Weiss and T. Tchórzewski as poetic manifestations of the literary practice of everyday life, a type of poeticised documents. The presence of poetry in artists’ lives is multi-faceted: loose pages preserved in a scrapbook, entries in a journal and autonomous works printed in the press, hence their role in creative biography is different. The common ground is a syncretic perception of creativity; the preserved texts co-create a kind of artistic site where the boundaries between the publication, the exhibition and the project performance blur, requiring special editing operations.
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This article attempts a critical reflection on the metaphorization of contemporary theoretical discourses, using the example of the metaphor of the knot. The author demonstrates its performativity by dissecting the conventionalized metaphor of the Gordian knot into figures of knot (tied deliberately), knot* (tangled accidentally) and loop, which entail different visions of reality and different logics of its problematisation and conceptualisation. He refers to examples of academic texts (Dipesh Chakrabarty, Donna Haraway, and Elaine Gan and Anna Tsing) in which the knot and the epistemological questions inscribed in this metaphor play an important role. He also shows the implications of reading onto-epistemological projects through the logic of the knot, which he sees in Bruno Latour’s actor-network theory, and the logic of the knot*, which he sees in Graham Harman’s object-oriented ontology. Given the significance of materiality in contemporary academic discourses, the author postulates that the term matterphor, as proposed by Lowell Duckert and developed in various currents of environmental humanities, should be introduced into Polish discourse. He believes that the potential of the new term lies in the fact that it makes it possible to combine the performativity of language and the performativity of matter so as not to efface the emergent and contingent character of the world from academic systems of conceptualising reality.
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The development of gendered identities during early childhood and youth occurs in a context of ‘body culture’ and the hyper-visibility of ‘perfect’ bodies, which align with traditional gender ideals. Embodied methods can assist to make complexity more visible, and to allow participants to see fluidity, shifts, and becoming. Whilst there has been significant theoretical development, further methodological innovations are needed to enable children and youth to articulate their perceptions of the way multiple influences shape their relations with their own bodies. Informed by ‘new materialist’ feminist theory this article will examine the work of Australian educators exploring use of creative and embodied drama-based play. The chapter advances methodologies to support pedagogical engagement with young children and youth about gender, identity and social change. The authors explore how embodied creative play can be used across ages to support children and young people to articulate the ways social norms and expectations influence their desires, imaginings, fears and actions and their perceptions of what is possible, desirable or appropriate in relation to performances of gender in their everyday worlds.
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This article is of polemical nature. It discusses main theses of the recently published book by Monika Stobiecka: Natura artefaktu, kultura eksponatu. Projekt krytycznego muzeum archeologicznego (2020). The book presents contemporary archaeology as a very innovative discipline striving for interdisciplinarity and extending beyond traditional research issues and borders. At the same, the authoress postulates a need to reorient archaeology and create a new type of archaeological museum, namely critical museum – “museum of life”.
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This paper proposes a relational history of media artifacts, which decentralizes the dominance of the photographer or filmmaker as the absolute author of the work. It adds an alternative account to understanding the creative process and the subsequent study of media forms by discussing film and photographic practices as the reciprocal affective relationship between the maker, their intentions, materials, technologies, non-human agents and the environment. By reorganizing the anthropocentrism of art historical narratives, which typically exclude corporeality and materiality as drivers of human history, we are able to discuss the complex dynamic meshwork of determinants that bring photographic artifacts into existence: the lived, animate, vital materialism at once emergent and mixing of different causalities and temporalities. Within this position, I will provoke discussions of cognition and photography by recalibrating the moment of acting to a model that recognizes a distributed nature of human action into the material world of things. This new materialist position has repercussions for the way we understand processes of creativity and the emergence of media artifacts-seeing these as always already entangled and enmeshed across various corporeal and material, platforms and scales. This paper uses photography as a case study to discuss the broader theme of co-creation between humans, machines and the environment. Using documentary evidence from the archive, I sustain this argument by making a close reading of a particular photographer’s contact sheet, which shows up some of the dynamics of the relational meshwork playing upon the photographer in the field. Through this reading we can begin to think about the implications for the way we understand the emerging aesthetic discourse of technological photographic practices and, more broadly, the cocreative domains of all human activity.
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The article focuses on Maja Lunde’s “climate quartet,” read from the perspective of post-speciesist theory and new materialism. Apart from dealing with climate change and dystopian futures, Lunde’s fiction also tackles the poetics and politics of the non-human (be it non-human animals or the non-human environment), which is no longer perceived as inherently submissive and dependent on the human, but possesses a life of its own. In new materialism’s terms, non-human (organic/inorganic, animate/inanimate) bodies are self-generative and self-sufficient, able to affect and influence other bodies.
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This paper proposes a relational history of media artifacts, which decentralizes the dominance of the photographer or filmmaker as the absolute author of the work. It adds an alternative account to understanding the creative process and the subsequent study of media forms by discussing film and photographic practices as the reciprocal affective relationship between the maker, their intentions, materials, technologies, non-human agents and the environment. By reorganizing the anthropocentrism of art historical narratives, which typically exclude corporeality and materiality as drivers of human history, we are able to discuss the complex dynamic meshwork of determinants that bring photographic artifacts into existence: the lived, animate, vital materialism at once emergent and mixing of different causalities and temporalities. Within this position, I will provoke discussions of cognition and photography by recalibrating the moment of acting to a model that recognizes a distributed nature of human action into the material world of things. This new materialist position has repercussions for the way we understand processes of creativity and the emergence of media artifacts-seeing these as always already entangled and enmeshed across various corporeal and material, platforms and scales. This paper uses photography as a case study to discuss the broader theme of co-creation between humans, machines and the environment. Using documentary evidence from the archive, I sustain this argument by making a close reading of a particular photographer’s contact sheet, which shows up some of the dynamics of the relational meshwork playing upon the photographer in the field. Through this reading we can begin to think about the implications for the way we understand the emerging aesthetic discourse of technological photographic practices and, more broadly, the cocreative domains of all human activity.
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The article presents the character of the zombie popular in the contemporary audio-visual culture by placing it in the context of post humanist paradigm. He concentrates on the brain symbolism representative for the character, which, in the classical understanding of the living dead, due to dissimilar functioning, makes it different from humans and their brain-like traits: the mind and heart. Analysing the recent films such as Warm Bodies and The Girl with All the Gifts, he demonstrates the present inadequacy of such a division. Unlike the classical Night of the Living Dead, they are in line with post anthropocentric and new materialism philosophy, by differently symbolically depicting the role and place of the human in the world. It is presently tantamount to the place of non-humans: animals, objects, artefacts and monsters including the living dead. The change of the cultural and film paradigm observed in zombie horrors indicates a deeper strategy of authors of those popular films.
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This article attempts to broaden the Polish theater discourse into analyzing modern choreography practices, focused on the use of objects in dance performances and exploring new ways of understanding materiality. The considerations are based on the assumption that matter is perceived by the creators of new choreography as an active factor which can be incorporated in the artistic process in various ways. The author presents and interprets two artistic projects by Aleksandra Borys, the installation Air Mapping and the choreography Dancing the Dance, and juxtaposes them with Karen Barad’s theory of agential realism. He aims to demonstrate that in Borys’s work matter can be perceived as a process rather than as an unchanging basis of reality.
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"Nuclear Gandhi" is a surprising and controversial image of an Indian leader - Mahatma Gandhi. Often portrayed against the backdrop of nuclear explosions, his poses and styles clearly are suggesting awe and admiration for the ongoing mass destruction. This image is related to Sid Meier’s Civilization VI – one of the most influential video games in the history of gaming. The aim of the article is to analyse this particular case study and consider processes from many different angles that led to the emergence of this controversial phenomenon. To do so, the notion of archiverse is introduced - an assemblage (after Jane Bennett) of all cultural, political, economic and technological archives performed by the user. By following the connections between different, often seemingly distant data and contexts, it is possible to propose an archive-centric perspective on video game study.
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The article deals with the concept of “new materialism“ and tries to explain “how discourses come to matter” and “how matter comes to discourses” [Barad 2003, 2007]. Borders and border regions are particularly revealing places for social research, especially in the present era of growing globalization, growth of the EU and mass immigration. Two opposite, reciprocal processes are open for investigation on the European territory: disappearance and strengthening of borders. Analyses of the Derridian concept of “unconditional hospitality” and the new materialism discourse will provide a possibility to describe identity deconstruction. Jacques Derrida analyzed the limits of the contemporary socialpolitical concepts that have challenged European existence in the recent years. His political philosophy concentrates on what happens when people, excluded from any system of politics or law, present themselves and ask for refuge or justice. After the long years of “deterritorialization”, today we observe such tendency as the process of re-territorialization. The author examines the public European discourse on religion, civilization and race belonging as a mark of European identity deconstruction.
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The seminal work of pioneering avant-garde filmmaker Dziga Vertov, The Man with the Movie Camera (Chevolek s kino-apparatom, 1929) has given rise to a number of discussions about the documentary film genre and new digital media. By way of comparison with American artist Perry Bard’s online movie project entitled Man With a Movie Camera: The Global Remake (2007), this article investigates the historical perspective of this visionary depiction of reality and its impact on the heralded participatory culture of contemporary digital media, which can be traced back to Russian Constructivism. Through critical analysis of the relation between Vertov’s manifest declarations about the film medium and his resulting cinematic vision, Bard’s project and the work of her chief theoretical inspiration Lev Manovich are examined in the perspective of ‘remake culture,’ participatory authorship and the development a documentary film language. In addition to this, possible trajectories from Vertov and his contemporary Constructivists to recent theories of ‘new materialism’ and the notion of Man/Machine-co-operation is discussed in length.
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Patryk Szaj attempts to inscribe Szczepan Kopyt’s Wersy o koniecznym oporze [Verses about the Necessary Resistance] into the theoretical framework of the Capitalocene. The starting point is the reconstruction of the condition of criticism in the Anthropocene. He opposes the beliefs expressed by some representatives of the Anthropocene discourse that criticism is ineffective in the face of the planetary challenges of this epoch. He argues that we criticism is till needed, as is also emphasized by the concept of the Capitalocene as an alternative to the Anthropocene. Next, Szaj moves on to a dialogue with Kopyt’s work. Using both the findings of critical theory and (new)materialistic concepts, Szaj points to Kopyt’s debt to both these traditions. He shows that Kopyt has managed to avoid the “speaking out of nowhere” that is associated with criticism. Kopyt speaks “from the world,” and his voice is that of a participant. This perspective, reconstructed in the article on the basis of Kopyt’s Wersy o koniecznym oporze, allows the poet to diagnose the anachronism of some Marxist heterodox practices (autonomism), as well as to note and creatively develop the positive and negative entanglements of human and inhuman actors in the era of Capitalocene. 
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Autor artykułu podejmuje próbę wpisania Wersów o koniecznym oporze Szczepana Kopyta w teoretyczne ramy kapitałocenu. Punktem wyjścia czyni rekonstrukcję kondycji krytyki w antropocenie. Przeciwstawia się wyrażanym przez niektórych przedstawicieli i niektóre przedstawicielki dyskursu antropocenu przekonaniom o nieskuteczności krytyki wobec planetarnych wyzwań tej epoki. Dowodzi, że krytyka wciąż jest nam potrzebna, co podkreśla także alternatywna wobec antropocenu koncepcja kapitałocenu. Następnie autor przechodzi do dialogu z twórczością Kopyta. Korzystając zarówno z ustaleń teorii krytycznej, jak i z koncepcji (nowo)materialistycznych, wskazuje na uwikłanie Kopyta w obie te tradycje. Dowodzi, że poecie udaje się uniknąć wiązanego z krytyką „mówienia znikąd”. Kopyt mówi „ze świata”, jako jego uczestnik. Perspektywa ta, rekonstruowana w artykule na podstawie Wersów o koniecznym oporze, pozwala poecie zdiagnozować anachroniczność niektórych marksistowskich praktyk heterodoksyjnych (autonomizm), a także odnotować i twórczo rozwinąć pozytywne i negatywne splątania aktorów ludzkich i pozaludzkich w epoce kapitałocenu. 
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Jednym z głównych tematów powracających w twórczości Małgorzaty Szumowskiej jest ciało ujęte w sposób podmiotowy, jako konstytutywny element tożsamości, oraz przedmiotowy, jako obiekt zabiegów medycznych, fragmentaryzacji, rozkładu, autopsji. Zwrócenie przez reżyserkę uwagi na materialność ciała oraz wskazanie splotu między nim a materią, która posiada własną dynamikę i sprawczość, zachęca do przyjrzenia się jej wybranym dziełom z perspektywy nowego materializmu reprezentowanego m.in. przez Karen Barad, Rosi Braidotti czy Roberta Esposita.
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One of the main recurring themes in Małgorzata Szumowska’s work is the body shown subjectively as a constitutive element of identity, and objectively as a target of medical procedures, fragmentation, decomposition, autopsy. The director’s attention to the materiality of the body and her pointing at how it is intertwined with physical matter that has its own dynamics and agency encourage us to examine her selected works from the perspective of new materialism represented by Karen Barad, Rosi Braidotti and Roberto Esposito, among others.23-38
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2022
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vol. 31
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issue 1
277-294
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Autorka przedstawia różne sposoby prezentacji relacji flory z człowiekiem. Tekst rozpoczyna omówieniem mocno utwierdzonej w kulturze zachodniej antropomorfizacji roślin, by następnie pokazać, że postawa ta znajduje przeciwwagę w refleksji nie-antropocentrycznej, głównie w posthumanizmie i nowym materializmie. Wskazuje, że w badaniach akcentujących „roślinną stronę człowieka” wydobywane są zarówno ewolucyjne, jak i kulturowe relacje, współistnienie oraz współdziałanie tego, co ludzkie i nie-ludzkie. Następnie autorka pokazuje jak dużą rolę odgrywają rośliny w kształtowaniu fantazmatów na temat ludzkiej płciowości i seksualności.
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The author examines a range of modes in which the relationship between flora and the human are portrayed. The paper begins with an inquiry into anthropomorphization of plants-a phenomenon firmly established in Western culture-only to show subsequently that such a notional approach has its counterpoise in non-anthropocentric reflection, primarily in post-humanism and new materialism. It is further demonstrated that the studies which emphasize the “vegetal facet of the human” manage to pinpoint both evolutionary and cultural relationships where the human and the non-human are seen to co-exist and cooperate. Then, the author draws attention to the very considerable role that plants play in creating phantasms relating to human gender and sexuality.
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The article reviews the book by Andrzej Marzec, entitled Antropocień. Filozofia i estetyka po końcu świata. It identifies the key subject areas discussed in his work (new materialism and object‑oriented ontology), as well as the adopted method. Due to the significant role of language in the philosopher’s terminological proposition, apart from analyzing the content of the book, the article also examines the publication as an attempt to question and liberate our human selves from the possibility of the dominant, anthropocentric language.
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Artykuł stanowi recenzję książki Andrzeja Marca pt. Antropocień. Filozofia i estetyka po końcu świata. Identyfikuje główne zakresy tematyczne omawiane przez autora (nowy materializm oraz ontologię zwróconą ku przedmiotom), a także obraną przez niego metodę. Ze względu na znaczącą rolę języka w propozycji terminologicznej filozofa, poza opisem zawartości publikacji, tekst podejmuje również próbę spojrzenia na książkę jako na zapis rozważań nad możliwością zakwestionowania i wyzwolenia się z dominującego antropocentrycznego języka.
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Stemming from the natural sciences, the concept of Anthropocene opened a variety of discussions in the humanities, provoking “us” to think otherwise. One of the challenges of the Anthropocene is the question of scale. Some question the obviousness of scale as the categories such as micro and macro, local and global/planetary no longer correspond with reality. The geologic time and time of a zoe coincide in many unobvious and unfelt ways. Cross-scale thinking and language is a way to think with the Anthropocene to grasp its planetary and global nature as well as the diverse situated and embodied human-non-human life forms.
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Antropocen przekroczył dyscyplinarne granice nauk przyrodniczych, rozbudzając debaty w ramach szeroko pojętej humanistyki, zmuszając „nas” do myślenia inaczej niż dotąd. Jednym z wyzwań antropocenu jest kwestia skali. Wraz z antropocenem oczywistość skalowych podziałów ulega zachwianiu. Podział na skale lokalne‑globalne/planetarne i makro‑mikro to kategorie myślenia, które nie odpowiadają rzeczywistości. Międzyskalowe myślenie i język to propozycje mówienia wraz‑z antropocenem, by uchwycić jego planetarną i globalną naturę, nie tracąc z oczu usytuowanych, ucieleśnionych ludzko‑nie‑ludzkich form życia.
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The paper reviews the meanings attached to the notion of “materiality” by literary criticism since 1990s. These meanings depend on several essential philosophical tendencies: poststructuralism, critical social theories, and posthumanism, which has a significant influence on critical-literary conceptualizations of “materiality”. The paper analyzes specific examples, mostly from critical-literary texts about contemporary Polish prose in order to show how “materiality” affects different types of critical commentary, including especially the possibilities and limitations of review.
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Artykuł jest przeglądem znaczeń, jakie pojęciu „materialności” nadawała (od lat 90.) i nadaje krytyka literacka. Znaczenia te, jak staram się pokazać, uzależnione są od wpływów kilku zasadniczych tendencji filozoficznych: postrukturalizmu, krytycznych teorii społecznych i posthumanizmu, co znacząco wpływa na krytycznoliterackie użycia pojęcia „materialność”. W artykule analizuję konkretne przykłady tych użyć, zaczerpnięte przede wszystkim z krytycznoliterackich wypowiedzi o najnowszej polskiej prozie, by ukazać, jak „materialność” wpływa na typ komentarzy krytycznych, w tym zwłaszcza na możliwości i ograniczenia recenzji.
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This article seeks to develop within the theater studies discourse a research stance and method that would resonate with the transformation that has begun in theater in connection with the #MeToo movement and the discussion about violence in theater schools, creative processes, and theaters. The author’s point of departure is the observation that recent productions thematizing sexual violence in theater have been gradually turning from grievances against the abuse of power towards constructive, forward-leaning proposals for change. This process is founded on the awareness that theater makers are situated within the present systems of power and on the willingness to consider various implications of this situatedness. The proposed project of responsibly situated affirmative criticism, understood as a research-and-writing stance, is based on Donna Haraway’s concepts of situated knowledges, Ewa Domańska’s affirmative humanities, posthumanist ethics (as envisaged by Karen Barad and Monika Rogowska-Stangret), and Harry Lehmann’s affirmative criticism. The article offers an analysis of the discussion about comings-out concerning the “Gardzienice” Center for Theater Practices, as a case study aimed at a more precise delineation of the possibilities for changing the discourse on the instruments and ethics of theater research.
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Artykuł jest próbą wypracowania w ramach dyskursu teatrologicznego postawy i metody badawczej rezonującej z przemianą, która zaczęła się w teatrze pod wpływem ruchu #MeToo i dyskusji o przemocy w szkołach teatralnych, w procesach twórczych i w teatrach. Punktem wyjścia refleksji jest spostrzeżenie, że w najnowszych spektaklach tematyzujących przemoc seksualną w teatrze widać proces przejścia od skargi na nadużycia władzy do konstruktywnych, wychylonych w przyszłość propozycji zmiany. Podstawą tego procesu jest świadomość usytuowania osób tworzących w panujących w teatrze układach władzy oraz gotowość brania pod uwagę rozmaitych konsekwencji tego usytuowania. Zaproponowany w artykule projekt odpowiedzialnie usytuowanej krytyki afirmatywnej rozumianej jako postawa badawczo-pisarska opiera się na koncepcjach wiedz usytuowanych Donny Haraway, humanistyki afirmatywnej Ewy Domańskiej, etyki posthumanistycznej (w ujęciu Karen Barad oraz Moniki Rogowskiej-Stangret) oraz krytyki afirmatywnej Harry’ego Lehmanna. Analiza dyskusji o coming outach dotyczących Ośrodka Praktyk Teatralnych „Gardzienice” stanowi studium przypadku, które ma pomóc dookreślić możliwości zmiany dyskursu na temat narzędzi i etyki badań teatralnych.
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In the article, the author discusses a new cultural phenomenon known as ASMR in a posthuman perspective, especially from the perspective of new materialism (Karen Barad), studies of things (Bjørnar Olsen, Ewa Domańska) and affective studies (Jane Bennett, Sara Ahmed). The article analyzes selected ASMR videos published on the YouTube website in terms of the affectivity of the objects used in them, arguing that ASMR cultural practices encourage the production of human-non-human assemblages of subjects and objects built of “vibrating matter” (Jane Bennett).
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