Oko i słowo (Wizje powieściowe w pamięci społecznej)

• Authors: Magala Sławomir

Title variants

EN

EYE AND WORD (Fictional Visions in Social Memory)

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EYE AND WORD (Fictional Visions in Social Memory) There is no library in Plato’s cave. His dialogues were narrated before books got printed and contemporary information caves filled with mass media and social media do not need books sending googling masses to clouds, not libraries. What matters more – a letter, which is the building brick of words, sentences and novels or a pixel which is a building brick of the deluge of images, a drop in the ocean of an iconic overkill? In aesthetics of photography the question is whether a meaning of a photograph depends more on an iconic and often subconscious impact or on a rational interpretation in the light of what we know having read the caption and the explanation of the context. Visions of contemporary world are best deciphered from an unfinished novel by David Foster Wallace, whose epic story of the Internal Revenue Service chapter in Peoria, Illinois, entitled The Pale King shows us the world of hyperactive consumers, addicted to news, speed, travel, alcohol, drugs, sex and entertainment. For them, boredom of a perfectly boring work – like the one performed for the tax office of the US – is a perfect serum restoring them to a meaningful life and full humanity. Boredom as salvation, here is the vision of a novelist, who also claimed, in his last public lecture, that real education can save our souls both from boredom and from hyper consumption. Pixels are a legion, but words matter and meanings can be found.

Keywords

PL

NARRACJA, REINTRPRETACJA, OBRAZ, NATURA OBRAZU, STRATEGIA OBRAZU, LITERATURA

EN

NARRATION, REINTERPRETATION, IMAGE, NATURE OF IMAGES, LITERATURE

• Publisher: Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Eugeniusza Gepperta we Wrocławiu
• Journal: DYSKURS: Pismo Naukowo-Artystyczne ASP we Wrocławiu
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 20
• Pages: 194-211

Dates

published

2015-11-05

Contributors

author

Magala Sławomir

References

• 1. Liesenfeld, Lorne, Cicha obecność fotografii, 2013, Uni-Druk, Luboń k/Poznania 2. Magala, Sławomir, The Management of Meaning in Organizations, 2009, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke & New York 3. Schroeder, Jonathan, Visual Consumption, 2002, Routledge, Oxon & New York 4. Wallace, David Foster, The Pale King, 2011, Hamish Hamilton, London & New York 5. Wallace, David Foster, This is Water. Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life, 2005, Little, Brown & Company, New York, Boston & London.

Identifiers

ISSN

1733-1528