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Healing in the Chthulucene: Becoming Beyond Human with Medicinal Plants

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Dev L.

Dialogue and Universalism

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2019

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issue 3

151-162

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The term “Anthropocene” is frequently used to refer to the present planetary epoch, characterized by a geological signature of human activities, which have led to global ecological crises. This paper probes at what it means to be human on earth now, using healing as a concept to orient humanity in relation to other species, and particularly medicinal plants. Donna Haraway’s concept of the “Chthulucene” is used as an alternate lens to the Anthropocene, which highlights the inextricable linkages between humans and other-than-human species. Healing can be viewed as a type of embodied orientation or engagement with the world, which has the potential to reach across boundaries of the skin, blur distinctions between self and other, and allow for both transpersonal and trans-species reconciliation. I focus my attention on Indigenous Shipibo healing rituals, and Shipibo concepts of healing that integrate humans within the ecosystem, and traverse species boundaries through communication with and embodiment of plant spirits. These healing rituals offer ways of coming into being within an ecology of selves—both internal and external, human and non-human—through listening and lending voice. I explore the potential for healing and ritual to work as a form of porous resistance through the internal blurring of binaries and hierarchical structures.

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What Does the Lyrebird Hear? Trouble With Birdsong in the Anthropocene

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Krzyżanowski W.

Kwartalnik Młodych Muzykologów UJ

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2022

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issue 1(52)

79-89

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Human-made noise pollutes the Earth further every day. It is important to investigate how that process affects the whole biosphere. I present a symbolic case of the Australian lyrebird, which is a songbird that mimics the sounds of its surroundings. Today its songs sound like chainsaw and other heavy machinery. All animal species are polluted by human noise to some extent. There are many studies about sonic perception in animals, but it seems that this knowledge is still hardly popularised. The phenomenon of sharing sounds between humans and other animals may also be better understood by new approaches to studies on cultural evolution.

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On the Role of Symbiotic Thinking in the Age of the Anthropocene

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Skubała P., Ochwat M.

Dialogue and Universalism

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2023

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issue 2

37-60

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The human influence on the earth’s ecosystem has become so destructive that we need a new vision of the world that will offer hope. The article is an attempt to create a new interdisciplinary way that takes into account the role of symbiosis in the functioning of life on Earth. Australian scholar Glenn Albrecht postulates the conceptual framework for the new epoch and calls it the Symbiocene. which will be characterized by replicating symbiotic life processes in human activities. At the same time, science clearly states that the relationships among organisms are predominantly cooperative and symbiotic in nature. The article focuses on three selected phenomena in which close multilateral cooperation plays a significant role. These are: the life of lichens, the functioning of mycelium with plants, especially the role of Mother Trees over young stands, and permaculture as an example of symbiotic agriculture. We take these examples as a training in collective imagination in good interspecies living and draw on selected literary texts. We believe that the idea of the Symbiocene, an inclusive and integrative philosophy of life, has great potential to become a new direction not only in the natural sciences, but also in the social sciences and humanities.

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Kształtowalność. Próba rewizji struktur Heideggerowskiego bycia w czasach antropocenu

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Hoły-Łuczaj M.

Analiza i Egzystencja. Czasopismo Filozoficzne

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2019

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vol. 48

65-87

EN

This paper addresses the problem of whether beings in Heidegger can affect each other and the significance of this phenomenon for their being and the ownmost. It seems that Heidegger’s concept of being lacks the dimensions of shaping and being shaped by others. However, it is possible to revise his concepts of fundamental structures of being, such as temporality and worldliness, thereby creating the structure of “shapeability”, which would not be limited to human beings. This, in turn, can help elucidate one of the key dilemmas of the Anthropocene related to setting the boundary between footprint and harm.

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Artykuł podejmuje problem możliwości wzajemnego odziaływania bytów w ontologii Heideggera i ewentualnego znaczenia tego zjawiska dla ich bycia i swoistości. Wydaje się bowiem, że w Heideggerowskiej koncepcji bycia brakuje wymiarów kształtowania i bycia kształtowanym przez innych. Możliwe jest jednak takie zrekonstruowanie podstawowych struktur bycia – światowości i czasowości – które pozwoli wpisać w Heideggerowską ontologię strukturę „kształtowalności”, która nie będzie ograniczona tylko do bytów ludzkich. To z kolei może przybliżyć nas do lepszego zrozumienia jednego z kluczowych dylematów epoki antropocenu, jakim jest ustanowienie granicy między śladem i krzywdą

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The Anthropocene and the Problem of Anthropological Constants

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Podušelová K.

Studia Philosophiae Christianae

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2023

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vol. 59

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issue 1

EN

In the humanities and social sciences, the concept of the Anthropocene has become the starting point for theoretical analyses of the immediate relationship between the environmental preconditions for the existence of civilization and the human actions whose consequences threaten these preconditions. From the philosophical-anthropological point of view, reflections on the concepts of the Anthropocene focus not only on a critical analysis of the claims about human that originate in the natural sciences but also on an understanding of the overall role of humanity in the new geological-climatic regime of the Earth. The primary purpose of this paper is to highlight two-pronged problem areas, which include both the problem of anthropological constants as specific ways of makingstatements about humans and the problem of using them to reflect on the conceptual system of the Anthropocene. In particular, this paper emphasizes hypotheses and claims from the Anthropocene concept of Earth System Science that point to humans becoming a geobiophysical force in the Anthropocene. Three areas in which anthropological constants could be subsequently subjected to a deeper analysis are proposed.

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Industrial and Environmental Democracies as Models of a Politically Organized Relationship Between Society and Nature

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St’ahel R.

Studia Philosophiae Christianae

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2023

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vol. 59

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issue 1

EN

This paper is based on the concept of environmental political philosophy and from its perspective, it highlights the weaknesses and contradictions of contemporary, existing democracies. It aims to formulate an outline of the concept of environmental democracy, following the accounts of M. Bookchin, R. Morrison and H. Skolimowski, as well as international environmental law enshrined in United Nations documents and resolutions. It is based on the hypothesis that the preservation of a democratic political system in a situation of a collapsing planetary system (the Anthropocene) requires improving the foundations of democratic theory with the insights of the Earth system sciences, particularly of political ecology and critical environmentalism. Through philosophical analysis, explanation and interpretation, this paper explores an environmental democracy that would, on the one hand, preserve the basic constitutional principles of current democratic constitutional regimes, and, on the other hand, reconcile them with the current state of understanding in the Earth sciences concerning the vulnerability of the planetary system. In a sense, J. Habermas’s understanding of human rights characterizes the concept of environmental democracy as a realistic utopia. The author concludes by drawing up the imperative of sustainability, which he sees as a guiding organizing principle of institutions and public policies for the climatic, demographic and economic regime of the Anthropocene.

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A Sociological Perspective on the Representation of Science in Climate Change Novels

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Hempel F.

Świat i Słowo

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2021

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vol. 36(1)

99-112

EN

According to a comprehensive scientific consensus, the environmental impact of modern societies is a significant cause for the current experienced effects of global warming. In addition to science’s function as a diagnostic instance of the Anthropocene, it occupies at least two additional roles in the story of humaninduced climate change. Modern science tries to act as a therapist as it proposes numerous actions that need to be taken when tackling the risks, causes, and consequences of climate change. Moreover, the institution of science is a (co-) producer of anthropogenic risks due to the intentional and unintentional utilization of scientific knowledge and science-based technologies for societal purposes. Therefore, this contribution asks from a sociological point of view how representations of science in exemplary climate change novels, a body of contemporary literature that deals with human-induced global warming and its societal implications, depict this multi-layered embedding of science as a producer, diagnostician, and therapist of societal risks in the story of humancaused climate change.

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Myśleć fantastyką. Przez science fiction do posthumanizmu

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Gajewska G.

Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication

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2020

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vol. 28

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issue 37

5-19

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The author presents the thesis that fantastic literature and film, especially in the science fiction variant, is a privileged form of expression in posthumanist discourse. The themes, motifs and protagonists of science fiction are invoked in various contexts by Donna J. Haraway, Rosi Braidotti, Luciana Parisi, and Pramod K. Nayar. The author analyzes various areas of the involvement and usage of science fiction in posthumanist discourse: on the ontological, axiological and epistemological levels.

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Edukacja w epoce współczesnych kryzysów

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Morbitzer J.

Studia Edukacyjne

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2020

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issue 56

7-26

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Morbitzer Janusz, Edukacja w epoce współczesnych kryzysów [Education in the Era of Contemporary Crises]. Studia Edukacyjne nr 56, 2020, Poznań 2020, pp. 7-26. Adam Mickiewicz University Press. ISSN 1233-6688. DOI: 10.14746/se.2020.56.1 The article shows that the educational process is always carried out in a complex, multidimensional world and its competent description requires consideration of many contexts, which also include numerous crises. The essence of a crisis is presented and such selected crises: ecological, socio-cultural, intellectual, and educational (including the crisis of universities) are described and briefly characterized. Their interpenetration and impact as well as influence on the educational process are demonstrated.

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Holobionts, Symbiosis and New Narratives for the Troubled Times of Donna Haraway’s Chthulucene

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Derra A.

Analiza i Egzystencja. Czasopismo Filozoficzne

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2020

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vol. 50

79-93

EN

The aim of the article is to discuss the basic assumptions, theses and solutions of Donna Haraway’s book “Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene”. The authoress places the considerations of an American philosopher and biologist against the background of her earlier books and conceptual proposals. She analyses her suggestion of using the category of Chthulucene instead of Anthropocene, the category of sympoietic system instead of an autopoietic one, she presents her appeal for creating new forms of kinship and extensive response-ability for each other.

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Poetki wobec końca – liryka najnowsza a antropocen

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Czyżak A.

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Poetica

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2023

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vol. 11

196-207

EN

This article considers the Anthropocene, global warming, and climate catastrophe as special challenges for humanity and as literary themes in contemporary poetry. In poems written by women during the last few years, these problems are presented in ways that transform our common perception and collective emotions. Interpretation of texts (written by Ewa Lipska, Marzanna Bogumiła Kielar, Julia Fiedorczuk, Urszula Zajączkowska, Justyna Bargielska, Ilona Witkowska, Małgorzata Lebda) lead to wider‑ranging results: the Anthropocene, as probably the last epoch in the history of the human world, must be perceived as a specific call for restorative activities for individuals and all mankind.

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Głównym celem artykułu są rozważania poświęcone antropocenowi, globalnemu ociepleniu i katastrofie klimatycznej pojmowanym jako wyjątkowe wyzwanie dla ludzkości oraz literacki temat w najnowszej poezji. W wierszach pisanych przez poetki w ciągu ostatnich kilku lat ta problematyka została podjęta na różne sposoby, prowadzące jednak do przeobrażeń wspólnotowej świadomości i zbiorowych emocji. Interpretacje utworów (pisanych m.in. przez Ewę Lipską, Marzannę Bogumiłę Kielar, Julię Fiedorczuk, Urszulę Zajączkowską, Justynę Bargielską, Ilonę Witkowską, Małgorzatę Lebdę) wiodą do szerzej zakrojonych wniosków: antropocen, jako być może ostatnia epoka w dziejach znanego nam świata, musi być traktowany jako szczególne wezwanie do ratowniczych działań, tak dla jednostek, jak i całego rodzaju ludzkiego.

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The Promotion of the Zero-Waste Concept by Influencers in Social Media

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Buczyńska-Pizoń N.

Zarządzanie Publiczne / Public Governance

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2020

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issue 2(52)

63-74

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Objectives: The aim of the conducted research was to examine the level of knowledge of the idea of zero waste as well as to correlate it with the use of social media and influencers’ followings. Research Design & Methods: The research methods used in the study are as follows: descriptive research, Internet research, observation, and graphical presentation of data. Findings: Those respondents who see that influencers promote the zero-waste concept have significantly higher index of the time spent in social media. Education level of the survey participants does not translate into the level of knowledge about the zero-waste concept. Implications / Recommendations: The analysis shows that values of the promotion of the zero-waste concept are important in caring about the natural environment. Influencers can effectively promote the zero-waste concept via social media. Contribution / Value Added: The author tries to show the purpose of the promotion of the said concept by using influencers in social media. The topic of environmental care is extremely important, especially in this day and age, when the climate crisis is progressing. Influencers who impact their customers can contribute to the spread of the zerowaste concept, which fits into an alternative economic model – namely circular economy – in place of a linear model. Article classification: research article JEL classification: M31, Q51, Q54

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Digital Platforms: A New Grammar for Territories?

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Grumbach S.

Ethics in Progress

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2017

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vol. 8

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issue 1

101-116

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Digital platforms are reshaping the geometry of the world. Their wide adoption by the population worldwide for an increasing number of activities, confer them a dominant position, which challenges established powers. Their control over the global flow of data and their algorithmic treatment leads to new asymmetries of power. New systems emerge, that unlike the Westphalian States do not correspond to territories on a map, but to complex networks controlling sectors of activities at a global scale. It is a real challenge and a necessity to reinvent a grammar of territories, to be able to grasp the new objects and their dependencies, and address the related issues of social justice and sustainable interaction with our planet.

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Rethinking Anthropos in the Anthropocene

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Brown C.

Dialogue and Universalism

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2016

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issue 1

31-38

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A growing number of geologists, geophysicists, and other Earth scientists now claim that human caused changes in the chemistry of the atmosphere, oceans, and land are so pervasive as to constitute a new geological epoch characterized by humanity’s impact on the planet. They argue that these changes are so profound that future geologists will easily recognize a discernible boundary in the stratigraphy of rock separating this new epoch from the previous geological epoch, i.e., the Holocene. They propose to name this new geological epoch the “Anthropocene,” a term meaning the age of man. Common to this view is the claim that humans are now the ecologically dominant force on Earth. This paper will compare the understanding of human self-identity developed by the defenders of the Anthropocene discourse with the understanding of human self-identity developed by radical ecologists. The defenders of the Anthropocene Discourse argue that human beings must accept a new understanding of human self-identity as an emerg-ing elemental force of nature and as master of the planet while radical ecologists argue that human beings must cultivate a conception of human self-identity as integral to nature. Radical ecologists argue that human self-understanding has traditionally been constructed by defining the realm of the human through the denial of our embodiment, our animality, and our presence in the natural order of things. These forms of self-understanding and self-expression now result in the failure to envision and promote thriving and sustainable lifestyles and the consequent environmental tragedies that un-dermine the natural systems making possible good and healthy lives for all species. This paper will conclude by arguing that only an ecologically and dialogically in-formed conception of human self-identity can provide an adequate point of departure for an ecologically benign form of human dwelling on this planet.

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“Time Has Caught on Fire:” Eco-Anxiety and Anger in Selected Australian Poetry

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Kowalcze-Pawlik A.

International Studies. Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal

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2020

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vol. 26

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issue 2

87-102

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This essay discusses fire as a significant factor shaping Australian social and cultural life. It focuses first on the climate-change induced emotions such as eco-anxiety and anger that can be tied with the Australian landscape, and then moves on to a discussion of the presence and function of fire in selected contemporary Australian poetry. The reflection on the poetics of trauma in the second part of the essay is accompanied by a discussion of solastalgia connected with land dispossession as an experience of the First Nations expressed in the Aboriginal literature in English.

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Dimensions of Decolonial Future in Contemporary Indigenous Speculative Fiction: Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God and Rebecca Roanhorse’s Trail of Lightning

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Julia S.

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies

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2020

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issue 29/1

57-74

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Departing from the traditional representations of the colonial past and its aftermath, speculative fiction emerges as a new important trend in the North American Indigenous literary landscape, allowing Native writers to represent decolonial futures. This article focuses on the representations of the future offered by two recent Indigenous speculative novels: Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God (2017) and Rebecca Roanhorse’s Trail of Lightning (2018), in the context of their decolonial potential. The analysis of the selected literary texts pays special attention to the status of women and its revision, as well as to the re-narrativization of space in the face of the anthropogenic climate change, and their significance to Indigenous decolonial project. In order to facilitate the discussion of the Indigenous speculative novels, the article refers to recent theories in Native American studies concerning Indigenous futurism, Native dystopia, and definitions of decolonization.

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„Żyjemy, walcząc z przyrodą”. Pierwsza awangarda i antropocen

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Wójtowicz A.

Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka

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2021

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vol. 113

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issue 1

174-188

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This paper analyses the work of authors associated with Awangarda Krakowska (in Polish: ‘Vanguard of Kraków’), discussing it in terms of contemporary discussions on the Anthropocene. The activity of this most radical formation in Polish modern literature coincided with the pinnacle of industrial progress. The members of the movement were staunch supporters of the latter which they tended to describe in terms of fossil fuels industry and the taming or transformation of natural environment. Adopting Peiper’s formula of three ‘M’s’ (Megalopolis, Mass, Machine), their attitude to nature is here discussed through three ‘E’s’: Enthusiasm, Exploitation, and Ecology. The former two were prevalent concepts in the interwar period and were derived from the philosophical discourse of modernity, gaining further focus in the avant-garde aesthetics and its slogans of human rivalry with nature. The resulting texts presented the intense process of transforming reality as an epic of forging a new order and introducing creative orderly patterns into the chaotic world of nature. This perspective tends to gradually disappear in the post-war texts, as the members of the avant-garde movement realised the negative consequences of the processes they once praised. Their texts reveal symptoms of ecological awareness and first suggestions that human attitude towards nature should be redefined.

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Antropocen nad Missisipi – języki rzeki

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Nacher A.

Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka

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2021

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vol. 113

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issue 1

43-59

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This article investigates to what extent the concept of Anthropocene allows for grasping the specificity of particular ecosystems and their complex histories. The point of focus here is the Upper Mississippi River Valley and a set of historical and contemporary discourses coalescing around it. Starting with the early travelogues and incorporating modern mapping attempts, a popular classic monograph by Calvin R. Fremling and the contemporary documenting projects such as Mississippi. An Anthropocene River and The American Bottom, the article traces the discursive discontinuities that may provide the ground for conceiving the alternative histories of the Anthropocene, more inclusive of indigenous knowledge, open to multiple knowledge registers, and transcending beyond the Eurocentric models of rationalism supporting the economy of extraction. To this end, a new understanding of relational ontologies is suggested following the notion of other-than-human persons as proposed by anthropologists interested in revisiting the basic tenets of animism and laying foundations for new animism (while taking various aspects of indigenous knowledge into account). Tapping into the concept of Place-Thought, the essay proposes an effective decolonisation of the discussion on the Anthropocene.

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Petrokultura i petromelancholia: Muzeum Harleya-Davidsona w Milwaukee

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Łysak T.

Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka

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2021

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vol. 113

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issue 1

202-216

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Culture researchers have recently highlighted the link between the combustion of petroleum products and individual freedom, one of the premises of Western world. This observation has contributed to the emergence of two research areas, petroculture and (more broadly) energy humanities. They study how a given energy regime can influence the forms of culture, the origin and development of species, and the philosophical approach to an individual in the world. One of modern history mechanisms has been identified as petromelancholia, a nostalgia for the times of easy access to cheap crude oil. These ideas offer a starting point for an analysis of the exhibition at the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee. While tapping into individual freedom and technological nostalgia in the narrative layer, the exhibition does not feature petrol as a substance. Instead it is communicated only as a technological and media content: fuel tanks painted in bright colours, a gallery of engines, conventionalised diagrams. The dependence of individual freedom on access to petrol can be seen in Josh Kurpius’s photographs of American motorcycle nomads. It is a shift towards the past inspired by Harley-Davidson’s marketing strategy; however, it also reveals the compensatory role of nostalgia in the face of climate catastrophe.

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Skóry „azjatyckich tygrysów” – chińskie taksydermie jako eksponaty i towary

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Witek M.

Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka

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2021

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vol. 113

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issue 1

101-115

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Taxidermy is considered a highly controversial practice in modern times – even more so in the face of the Anthropocene and the rapidly declining biodiversity. Nevertheless, it is still performed and constitutes an important element of museum exhibitions and private collections. In the contemporary People’s Republic of China and Taiwan, taxidermy functions both as an exhibit, which by preserving animal corporeality serves different purposes, from cognitive to political, and as a commodity – an exclusive and expensive craft closely related to animal symbolism in Chinese culture. The aim of this article is to study taxidermies as exhibits and commodities, and propose their interpretations both in the space of the museum and the market. The unfolding analysis refers not only to contemporary Chinese culture and the perspective of the Anthropocene, but is also put in a broader context of taxidermy and its role in the ‘museum of the Anthropocene’. The proposed approaches serve the purpose of both understanding the role and position of taxidermy in China and Taiwan, and deconstructing the anthropocentric perspective of interpretation while focusing on the history of species and individual specimens as ‘undead’ testimonies of rapid changes taking place in the human age.

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Healing in the Chthulucene: Becoming Beyond Human with Medicinal Plants

What Does the Lyrebird Hear? Trouble With Birdsong in the Anthropocene

On the Role of Symbiotic Thinking in the Age of the Anthropocene

Kształtowalność. Próba rewizji struktur Heideggerowskiego bycia w czasach antropocenu

The Anthropocene and the Problem of Anthropological Constants

Industrial and Environmental Democracies as Models of a Politically Organized Relationship Between Society and Nature

A Sociological Perspective on the Representation of Science in Climate Change Novels

Myśleć fantastyką. Przez science fiction do posthumanizmu

Edukacja w epoce współczesnych kryzysów

Holobionts, Symbiosis and New Narratives for the Troubled Times of Donna Haraway’s Chthulucene

Poetki wobec końca – liryka najnowsza a antropocen

The Promotion of the Zero-Waste Concept by Influencers in Social Media

Digital Platforms: A New Grammar for Territories?

Rethinking Anthropos in the Anthropocene

“Time Has Caught on Fire:” Eco-Anxiety and Anger in Selected Australian Poetry

Dimensions of Decolonial Future in Contemporary Indigenous Speculative Fiction: Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God and Rebecca Roanhorse’s Trail of Lightning

„Żyjemy, walcząc z przyrodą”. Pierwsza awangarda i antropocen

Antropocen nad Missisipi – języki rzeki

Petrokultura i petromelancholia: Muzeum Harleya-Davidsona w Milwaukee

Skóry „azjatyckich tygrysów” – chińskie taksydermie jako eksponaty i towary