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Aristotelovo pojetí místa ve „Fyzice IV.4“

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Císař K.

Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)

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2008

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vol. 56

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issue 2

225-251

EN

Our interpretation of Aristotle‘s examination of place attempts to take seriously its dialectic character and thus to defend it against criticism that alleges an internal inconsistency. Any such inconsistency results from the ambiguity of the object of examination, an ambiguity that may be overcome by a succession of gradual distinctions. According to these, a place surrounds that of which it is the place, and does not constitute any of the surrounded thing. A surrounded thing’s own place is not bigger or smaller that that thing, and is separable from the surrounded thing. Each place has its up and its down, and according to these differences each body either moves naturally or remains where it is. Enumeration is an important part of the dialectical examination, the methodology of which Aristotles describes here in a general way, in a single passage. According to this passage, when we delimit the nature of a thing, each definition must resolve the difficulties arising from prior knowledge of the thing – albeit while agreeing with evident facts – and must clarify doubts which might result from it itself. In order that we may specify a definition of place, we must first draw a distinction within local motion between that which moves on its own accord and that with moves only accidentally. Only then can we approach the formulation of a definition of place. At first this definition will be negative, denying other possibilities of what place might be – showing that place is neither shape, extension nor matter. Then we arrive at a positive formulation, according to which place is the limit of the surrounding body. This is, however, not yet adequate from the point of view of the description of motion, and therefore it is necessary to qualify the definition by a final, necessary, requirement – that such a limit must be unmoving.

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A Place Called Supermarket

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Goidanich M. E., Rial C.

International Review of Social Research

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2012

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vol. 2

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issue 1

143-156

EN

The objective of this study is to interpret supermarket stores as privileged spaces for the observation of social relations. The article is based on an ethnography of shopping conducted in the city of Florianópolis, Brazil, by observing middle class housewives during their daily shopping in supermarkets. These stores are seen as places, in opposition to that proposed by Augè (1995), who affirms that supermarkets are non-places produced by supermodernity. The article discusses the history of supermarkets, their role in the cultural and social transformations of the twentieth century, as well as ethnographic data, and shows that it is possible to identify many social interactions inside Brazilian supermarkets.

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An Analysis of Chinese Ecomuseums in Relation to Ecomuseum Theories and Principles

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Borrelli N., Ge R.

Organon

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2019

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vol. 51

123-151

EN

The main aim of this article is to reflect on the status of ecomuseums in China. There have been both ecomuseums and discourse about them for many years in China. However, despite the existence of academic literature on ecomuseums and therefore to the general theory of ecomuseums, from some points of view Chinese ecomuseums do not seem to be aligned with general ecomuseum principles. This article reflects both on how well ecomuseums in China fit the ecomuseum characteristics defined by the theory and, ultimately, on what we can learn from the Chinese experience. Our discussion is developed on the basis of both the existing academic literature and interviews conducted by the authors.

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The city as the place of design practice

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Głutkowska - Polniak A.

Anthropos?

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2015

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issue 24 Miasto i miejsce

43-54

EN

The city, one of the most polysemous spaces is perpetually penetrated by various practises, creative actions, multidimensional activity, artistic creations including also design practises. The city is a peculiar heterotopia, where also through design practices all that is practical penetrate with what is aesthetical, science with art, information with interpretation. Design practices serve integration of the things' world with the man's life. These are somehow a synonym of the human environment, which is generated by people and for people - artefactual environment. Design has an ability to tangle and involve people with the surrounding reality in a manner that they do not only contemplate or consume ambient things, but live with what is material and immaterial in close symbiosis.

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Dispossessed of their place. About the audio-visuality of a town and the problems with the identity of its inhabitants at the beginning of the XXI century

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Regiewicz A.

Anthropos?

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2015

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issue 24 Miasto i miejsce

10-21

EN

Seeing sets our place in the surrounding world about which the ubiquitous screens convince a modern inhabitant: LED displays, monitors of the video games, cash machines, MP4 players etc. Located in the iconosphere of a town, the screens constitute a new space causing "loss of a place and projection". A screen image is an alternative text to the first reality and it is simulated, received more tangibly than visually which causes a new sense of space, based not on the territory but on the community in the picture transmission. A screen ceases to engage a passer-by and becomes an indication of a non-place which Marc Augé characterises through: the exchange of the place for anthropological space, uncertainty of the materialisation of space and the primacy of vision over the experience of space. Non-places do not create identity or relations, but only similarity and loneliness. The plane of the "meeting" is the consumerism attitude, and an identity based on a continuous consumption might be called transparent.

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The place identity

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Głowacka A.

Anthropos?

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2015

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issue 24 Miasto i miejsce

153-161

EN

In the last two decades the theatre in Poland is interested in constructing narrative identity, in creating stories of people and places, which are usually an alternative to the official history. On one hand, it is connected with the contemporary memorial boom, and on the other - it arises from the need to appreciate up locality. To the same extent it is a response to the globalization as it is to the expectations of members of local communities having their own story, connected with the place of their live. Many theatres introduce to their repertoires performances referring to the local context, space and local inhabitants. Some of them treat the locality as a kind of communicational strategy with the local audience. Good example of this is Teatr Zagłębia in Sosnowiec, which is very active in the field of creating local mythology and identity. The article discusses in particular two titles: Korzeniec - referring to the beginnings of the city and Czerwone Zagłębie - which recalls the twentieth-century local history. For the analysis of Teatr Zagłębia activities it is useful to reach for the memorial concept of John Assmann and traditions invented, by Eric Hibsbawm.

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Defining a city and a place in architectonic visions. Reflections on example of Zakopane and Manhattan

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Maj A.

Anthropos?

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2015

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issue 24 Miasto i miejsce

65-79

EN

The paper is an essay showing certain continuity in the process of defining the space of a city and a place. The authoress using examples of American Manhattan and Polish Zakopane, describes two different approaches present in architectural discourse and space design in the first three decades of the XXth century, which promoted defining anthropogenic space in opposition to the nature or as an answer to the challenges arising from the specificity of the geographic context. The visions of the future analysed here can be understood as narrations about ideal ways of the construction of space, not always they have resulted in building certain architectural objects, but they have influenced the imagination of the people of the epoch on the essence of the city and the place, on spaces of home, community and public one, on relations between human being, nature and technology. Historical examples compared to the contemporary visions of the future of cities, such as the concept of smart city (the city packed with sensors and ICT networks) and the concept of postcity (the city which resigns from the dominance of technology in the favor of the ecology and reflection on the role of human being in the urban ecosystem), show that still the nature (its lack or its coexistence) is the important point of reference for contemporary visions of the future, and the element that changes are means of expression, by which designers, architects and urbanists communicate with the public - the users of the urban space. Therefore, it is worth to study the visions which are one hundred years old in order to find their latent narration, having at the same time the consciousness how the visions and technologies evolve before - and if ever - they become reality.

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(Im)mobility of Space in Filip Springer’s Miasto Archipelag

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Gieba K.

Anthropos?

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2018

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issue 27 W ruchu

192-204

EN

The article applies representations of mobility and immobility in Miasto Archipelag written by Filip Springer. The book is record of a reporter’s trip to the polish former provincial cities. The issue of displacement is considered in three perspectives: move as a narrative dominant; as deterritorialization and reterritorialization of place and as domain of urban activity.

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Tokyo cup. The place and friendship

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Kunce A.

Anthropos?

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2015

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issue 24 Miasto i miejsce

80-90

EN

The author deals with the problem of the place and friendship. The starting point is the advertisement of Japanese porcelain, in which the cup becomes a symbol of lifelong / undying / immortal friendship. Tokyo cup, as a heartwarming gift, leads the author to questions about the community, distance, permanence, transience, time and place. Donated items connect the purchase, friendship, travel, artefact and duration. Ceremonial objects intensify everyday life and open the world - including the orders of nature, social life and metaphysical existence.A cup of Noritake reveals the radical philosophy of friendship - is a gesture of restoring ties in the world in which we severed the bonds of friendship. It is a fragile suggestion to rebuild what interpersonal and to resume our understanding of time and space.

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The old man in the city

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Picheń A.

Anthropos?

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2015

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issue 24 Miasto i miejsce

162-169

EN

Author's aim is to describe issue of senility in Poland. Researcher describes biological and communal problems which are related to senility, including problems that families of older people have to face with, even when they can count on any help. Author wants to pay attention to changes that had been made in society and in single human being by fact, that human life is longer than before.

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The dark light of place. Taormina in Aleksander Wat's literary experience (with unscientific postscript)

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Paszek P.

Anthropos?

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2015

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issue 24 Miasto i miejsce

91-109

EN

The main aim of article is a question about place experience in Aleksander Wat's poem Evening - night - morning (Wieczór - noc - ranek) and his explanation concerning this literary work. The poem was written by Wat in Sicilian town (which name is) Taormina in 1957. The most important thesis in this dissertation relates to consciousness in a state of eclipse. This altered state of mind leads eventually to more intensive cognition and experience of the space and place through some kind of abolition of self-centered consciousness or through the weakening of the authority and domination of egotistical forms of awareness. On the whole, the subject matter of paper approximates to topographical turn, nonetheless the main analysis keeps indispensable distance to many ideas belonging to present humanistic theories of place.

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Influence of the city on identity and works of Frank O'Hara

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Bugajna A.

Anthropos?

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2015

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issue 24 Miasto i miejsce

170-180

EN

Main subject of the article is New York as a place which has a big influence on identity and works of Frank O'Hara. This influence is represented through three perspectives. First of all, New York as a place, where O'Hara had lived, worked and written. Second, it was an element of his everyday life, which at the same time was the main subject of his esthetic experience. At last, experience of the city created his identity as a New York poet and has the main influence on the style and subject of his poetry. New York is a multicultural metropolis which does not build stable but dispersed identity immersed into experience of the city.

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City a place of continuous experiment

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Mikrut-Majeranek M.

Anthropos?

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2015

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issue 24 Miasto i miejsce

121-134

EN

City is a peculiar microcosmos and mimetic reflection of the world's order. Its establishment was always preceded by all kinds of religious rites hence its sacral side. First settlements on the open space had already been established 9000 year b.c. Throughout the years, cities were isolated with walls, constituting both border separating two worlds and being some kind of internal organization generating feeling of solidarity and social consolidation. Over next centuries conception of the city had been experimented with. In renaissance many books had been written, treating of ideal cities with utopian assumptions. Some of those ideas were brought to life. In XIX century, city walls started to collapse, opening possibility of territorial expansion of the city center. Gradually urban landscape has been changed too. Some building were replaced by others, remainings of the agricultural heritage had been replaced with industrial constructions. However, with time even those lost their importance and were disassembled. Current remainings of that industrial era are being revitalized, which changes not only their looks but also functions. City is subjected to constant transformation, it's like a palimpsest, and good example of which is Croatian's Split. It's a manuscript, written by subsequent generations of human kind, were each generation scraped out some of the text (architecture elements) to rewrite it, making corrections according to social negotiations. This article describes different experiments with city, relating with moving city to another place, changing country's capital, destroying of the villages as a result of dame construction and building of the underwater city, being realization of a dream of sunken Atlantins.

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City/the place as a work of art. An introduction

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Popczyk M.

Anthropos?

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2015

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issue 24 Miasto i miejsce

55-64

EN

In this paper I will attempt to look at the city-place as a work of art. Such an approach will allow us to take into consideration its aesthetic, sensual and reflective qualities and, at the same time, contemplate those aspects which go beyond the philosophy of art, such as practical needs of everyday life. I am analysing the opinions expressed by Olsen, Christie Boyer and the architects, Le Corbusier and Kevin Lynch. The positive view of the place emphasizes the role played by its shape and layout, by the sense of security and beauty, by harmony, sensuality and emotions, by the sense of belonging and identity. The city, however, also means ruins, abandoned places invisible to its inhabitants. I am examining an approach adopted by Urban Explorer and I am underlining the aesthetic and artistic way of depicting the city. In the final part I am discussing the spatial-temporal dimensions of the city as a work of art.

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The Source. Contributions to Oikology

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Kunce A.

Anthropos?

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2017

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issue 26 Podróż do źródła

15-30

EN

The source and its relationship with oikology are key issues. The knowledge dispensed by oikology would be simple: it is an imperative of a return to the idea of home. The author deals with the mystical source, the fountain of youth, the source of life or the presence of wells near the house. These experiences are needed to rethink the present-day home and place it in the imperative of returning to the source.

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Instead of "miasto" (city) - "miejsce" (place). Rudiments of language

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Legomska J.

Anthropos?

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2015

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issue 24 Miasto i miejsce

1-9

EN

The author locates her reflection within the anthropological linguistics current which refers to the cognitive approach to language. She analyses lexemes having the same source: "miasto" (city) and "miejsce" (place) which appeared in the Old Polish language (till the 16th century). The semasiological and onomasiological analyses of linguistic material excerpted from etymological and historical dictionaries of Polish language present the reciprocal relations in the conceptualisation of the notions MIASTO (city) and MIEJSCE (place) from the panchronic perspective.

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Beyond the human. Notes on a post-anthropocentric problem of location

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Markiewicz M.

Anthropos?

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2015

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issue 24 Miasto i miejsce

110-120

EN

The article is an attempt to consider a place for a subject in perspective of post-anthropocentric point of view. Post-anthropocentrism is a heavyweight issue of the posthumanism, a critical theory, which is based on rejection of human domination over the world and which considers human as a part of life-itself. However, is human capable of rejecting the anthropocentric point of view? Is overstepping the Anthropos even possible? What we can do to not allow the post-anthropocentrism become one of anthropocentric instruments of power? Author tries to answer these questions referring to feminist critical theories - Adrienne Rich's politics of location and Donna Haraway's situated knowledge. It seems that, the proper question is rather, could human beings become a part of life-itself, remaining themselves in the same time.

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Understanding and comparison of East and West Philosophies

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Gluchmanova M.

Społeczeństwo i Edukacja. Międzynarodowe Studia Humanistyczne

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2016

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issue 4(23)

37-43

EN

The author stressed and emphasized some of the most interesting papers which were presented during the 11th East-West Philosophers’ Conference: “Place.”

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All souls

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Ashwin I., Szpilka J.

Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa

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2018

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vol. 72

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issue 4(323)

312-315

PL

W mojej działalności artystycznej zawsze odczuwałam pociąg do liminalnych miejsc, takich jak rozdroża, wysokie lokacje czy ciała wodne. Ważnym jest, żeby były to miejsca, gdzie działalność ludzka miała miejsce. W Anglii przed reformacją, kościoły były czarodziejskimi repozytoriami, z ich zapachem, śpiewem, bogatą kolorystyką i migotliwymi świecami. Chciałam zaczerpnąć z tego, sprawdzić jak głęboko mogłam zintegrować się z tym światem i gdzie mógłby on mnie zabrać.

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“In my work as an artist I was always attracted by such liminal places as crossroads, high locations, or sheets of water. I attached importance to those places being the site of human activity. In pre-Reformation England churches were magical repositories, with their fragrance, chants, lavish colours, and flickering candles. I wished to borrow from them and to test just how deeply I could become integrated with that world and where it could take me”.

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The re-construction of urban space in the place between art and architecture: Selected paradigms of in situ art of the period 1950–2000

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Mandilari A.

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia de Arte et Educatione

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2022

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vol. 17

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issue 375

23-38

EN

This study investigates in situ art of recent art history and its potential regarding the reconstruction of public space and its meanings. Paradigms of art and architecture conjugation in site specific interventions are examined with a view to answer questions such as the transformative role art can play when it constitutes a plastic phenomenon functioning in a complementary or reactive way as a part of the urban and social space. In situ’s art sculptural objects, due to their transitional form, serve as metaphors for space and time and their condition of constant change in the everyday life of the city. They constitute a physical input in the urban space that seeks to redefine its material boundaries and highlight the interaction between the individual and the city seen as an incomplete entity in a constant re-casting. Through the practice of repetition and movement, sculptural objects are put in dialogue with the objects we come into contact daily, taking part into a new aesthetic reality. It is about a process of re-configurating of the everyday aesthetics of the city, challenging the relationship between art and architecture and thus offering new modes of spatialisation. By examining specific paradigms from the in situ art of the second half of the twentieth century (e.g. Aldo Van Eyck, Daniel Buren, Rachel Whiteread), this paper, seeks to unveil the process of activating the coexistence of the visible and the invisible, the inside and the outside, the private and the collective that this specific artistic process offers in material terms. The main question that this paper seeks to answer is how in situ art- e specially when oscillating between art and architecture- affect the everyday flow of the undifferentiated space and time? How does it shape the coexistence and interaction between city’s objects and subjects? Which alternative – discursive – reality does it offer?

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