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Idealne państwo (społeczeństwo) w ujęciu renesansowych utopistów

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Danowska-Prokop B.

Studia Ekonomiczne

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2016

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vol. 305

140-149

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W dobie renesansu pojawiły się ponownie utopijne koncepcje dotyczące nowego porządku społecznego. Koncepcje te były reakcją na: kryzys dotychczasowych średniowiecznych struktur społecznych, renesansowe prądy umysłowe, zmiany zainicjowane przez reformację, otwarcie na świat zewnętrzny i merkantylną politykę gospodarczą. Renesansowe utopie krytycznie ustosunkowywały się do panującego ustroju, zwracały baczną uwagę na braki ekonomiczne, społeczne i naukowe. Utopiści w nierównościach majątkowych i dochodowych upatrywali źródła zła moralnego w społecznym wymiarze. Panaceum na niedomagania ustrojowe było uspołecznienie własności, sprawiedliwszy podział dóbr i obowiązek pracy fizycznej.

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The utopian ideas for a new social order emerged again the era of the Renaissance. These concepts were a reaction to the crisis of existing medieval social structures, Renaissance philosophy, changes triggered by the Reformation, opening to the outside world and the mercantile economic policy. Renaissance utopias took a critical attitude to the prevailing system and paid close attention to the economic and scientific shortcomings. Utopians looked at inequalities in wealth and income as the moral evilness in the social dimension. The panacea for the problems of the government system were the socialization of ownership, fairer distribution of wealth and the duty of manual labour.

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The Polish Cyborg. A Reflection on the Relationship between Man and Machine in Early Polish Modernism

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Ranocchi E.

pl.it / rassegna italiana di argomenti polacchi

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2016

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issue 7

39-60

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Far from being enthusiastic “modernolatry” of Italian futurism, Polish futurism demonstrates an attitude of ambivalence toward modernity. This is particularly evident in the Polish approach to that very synecdoche of modernity which is the machine. In his essay of 1923, the leader of the group, Bruno Jasieński, compares the fetishistic cult of the machine, which characterizes the Italian approach, with the utilitarian one of the Russians, exemplified by a quote from Majakovskij. To these two propositions, as a sort of Hegelian synthesis, he adds a Polish one consisting in the conception of the machine as a prosthesis, a continuation of the human body. Thereby he introduces an idea later known as “cyborg”. The category of cyborg is also useful to understand the work of another today almost forgotten Polish writer of the Twenties, Jerzy Sosnkowski. He was the author of a short novel, A Car, You and Me (Love of Machines), in which a whole chapter concerns the chief character’s dystopian nightmare wherein machines take control over the world. The third section of the essay deals with the idea of man a machine – an old, 18th century conception, which became actual anew in the 20th century and whose traces we can findc among others in a well-known poem by Tytus Czyżewski. Thirty years before N. Wiener, Polish modernists seem to have sensed the social, political and anthropological implications of the mechanization of work.

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« Retrouver les fils de la synchronie ». Bronisław Baczko et les lumières de l’utopie

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Mendes Baiao H.

Przegląd Humanistyczny

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2014

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issue 3(344)

85-106

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Bronisław Baczko (1923) and Leszek Kołakowski (1927–2009) were two most important members of the Warsaw School of History of Ideas. At the end of the 1950s and the 1960s, the scholars working in contact with this research circle tried to overcome the teleological vision of the Marxist-Leninist historiography dictated by communist parties. A historian B. Baczko developed a methodology which aim was to understand how it interferes with philosophical tools and “visions of the world” (Weltanschauungen). His work investigates the Enlightenment imaginary, in which political and social utopias illustrate a horizon of aspiration.

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Topique des séquences d’entrée et de sortie dans La Description de l’isle de Portraiture (1659) de Charles Sorel et La Relation de l’Ile imaginaire (1659) de Mlle de Montpensier

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Pawłowska M.

Orbis Linguarum

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2018

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issue 50

327–335

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Topic of entrance and exit sequences in Charles Sorel’s Description de l’isle de Portraiture (1659) and Mlle de Montpensier’s La Relation de l’Ile imaginaire (1659) The geographical production of the utopian island is paralleled by a number of textual mechanisms described by Jean-Michel Racault as topic of entrance and exit sequences. The close generic resemblance between French seventeenth century utopian and allegorical narratives of imagined islands, allows to ask about their topic similarity. The review of some of those sequences contained in Mademoiselle’s de Montpensier La Relation de l’Ile imaginaire and Charles Sorel La Description de l’isle de Portraiture, both published in 1659, shows however that they are an optional author’s choice and not a required narrative component.

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The Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence, Human Communication and Ethics. A Futuristic Perspective: Utopia or Dystopia?

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Pelea C. I.

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2019

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vol. 2

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issue 1

38-48

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In today’s society, Artificial Intelligence is continuously evolving, with remarkable speed and it has a considerable impact on the community as a whole, starting with medicine, education, industry, and it affects communication in human relations. Once one can no longer deny this technological advancement with many implications on our lives, a new topic of discussion and academic research arises: to what extent will it be necessary to redefine the parameters of communication and the relationships between the individual, the group, the society, and the Artificial Intelligence. The present research tackles several problematic aspects related to AI in the present and some that may arise in the near future when robots will probably become a commodity. First, the author will investigate the communication relationship between AI and the individual, now, given the fact that the excessive use of technology recalibrates and reformulates the way one perceives and envisages the harmony and the efficiency of the communication process. Second, the connection between AI and ethics is another topic of high interest now, and even though the flourishing development of AI supposedly has as a mission the benefit of humankind, many ethical dilemmas keep arising and feed collective social anxiety, while no satisfying and consistent solutions seem to be found. Globalisation and technological progress mark another turning point for contemporary society, which witnesses an unforeseen academic impasse of knowledge, meaning that it is prone to reconfigure stable academic disciplines and to estimate the emergence of new ones, dictated by post-contemporary global necessities. For example, the ethics of robots or AI has high chances to become a well-established academic discipline soon, given the present turbulent and dynamic technological context, constantly shaping humanity’s life. Considering the future implications of ethical and communication nature becomes a stringent necessity even at its earliest stages, not only for researchers of various departments and ethics committees but also for governments, corporations, and other industry branches. Therefore, creating and engraving a culture of social responsibility towards AI represents one of the most difficult challenges of our times, and finding the balance will make the difference between utopia and dystopia, where AI is a miracle... or an evil.

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Black utopian and dystopian technological simulation: Tupac Shakur’s holographic persona at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival

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Whitaker R.

Świat i Słowo

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2020

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vol. 34(1)

63-83

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Tupac Shakur’s holographic persona at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California is a point of departure for discussing the Black utopian and dystopian imagery in a future world through technological innovation. In conversation with hip hop studies and critical race theory, Afrofuturism is used as an aesthetic and humanistic methodology to interpret the manner in which Tupac’s posthumous representation complicates ethical, cultural, and theological debates about idealistic and undesirable depictions of Black virtual reality. Understanding Tupac’s routine through an Afrofuture perspective presents a model for assessing perceptions of virtual Black life in the context of a range of social issues, including the perspectives of alternative Black religious futures, resistance of Black artists to White appropriation and altering of Black dead people for the purposes of profit-making. Tupac’s performance underscores the need for broader dialogue, not only on the racial implications of post-human mediations in public space, but also the ideological challenges that Black scholars of future studies face due to larger cultural concerns, especially those of the White hegemony in a hyper-commodified digital age.

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Gra w Orwella

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Kłosiński M.

Przestrzenie Teorii

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2019

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issue 31

39-70

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The article presents an interpretation of Orwell video games in context of available analytical tropes in Orwellian research. The paper touches on various problems described by academic readers of Nineteen Eighty-Four and tries to answer the question whether games provide innovations in the way they problematize socio-political issues in comparison to Orwell’s classic novel. In the introductory part, the author discusses the possibility of utilizing the notion of critical dystopia in the analysis of Orwell video games. The following chapters touch on the subject of cultural references, realistic styles, biopolitics and class representations.

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Sawa M.

Roczniki Humanistyczne

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2017

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vol. 65

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issue 11: Anglica

161-175

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This article seeks to explore the relation between utopia and modernity on the basis of Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) as well as two seminal contemporary studies: Bruno Latour’s We Have Never Been Modern (1992) and Gabriel Josipovici’s What Ever Happened to Modernism? (2010). The ambiguous nature of the modern prototype of utopia which displays both the eutopian and the dystopian (self-critical) impulse seems reflected in the nature of modernity. With auto-criticism inscribed in the constitution of both utopia and modernity, the leading desires of the modern period—for a greater emancipation and domination—prove to be its greatest burden both in the socio-political sphere as well as in art and literature.

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Celem artykułu jest zbadanie relacji pomiędzy utopią a nowoczesnością na podstawie Utopii Thomasa More’a oraz dwóch ważnych współczesnych studiów nad nowoczesnaścią: We Have Never Been Modern (1992) autorstwa Bruno Latoura oraz What Ever Happened to Modernism? (2010) napisanym przez Gabriela Josipovici. Ambiwalentna natura nowoczesnego prototypu utopii, która wykazuje obecność zarówno impulsu (e)utopijnego, jak i dystopijnego (krytycznego), zdaje się znajdować swoje odzwierciedlenie w naturze nowoczesności. Krytyczny aspekt nowoczesności odsłania fakt, że dwa podstawowe dążenia epoki nowoczesnej — do wolności i dominacji — okazują się jej największym obciążeniem zarówno w sferze socjopolitycznej, jak też w literaturze i sztuce.

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Canadian utopia in Poland: How L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables contributed to Polish Solidarity

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Guenther S.

Beyond Philology: An International Journal of Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching

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2017

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issue 14/4

97-110

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L. M. Montgomery’s 1908 novel, Anne of Green Gables, about a young, socially-awkward Nova Scotian girl adopted by a family in Prince Edward Island, a novel that expresses the sentiments of the North American “New Woman” movement and markedly exhibits post-colonialist imperialism, has produced a young heroine who stands in solidarity with civil resistance in occupied Poland. Given that Montgomery was descendent of the white English/Scottish Protestant invader culture on PEI, complicit in the marginalization and deportation of French settlers and in the annihilation (literally and metaphorically) of the indigenous Mi’kmaq, the idealistic transformation of Montgomery’s famous Anne character into a symbol of political defiance seems, to me, incredible. In this article, I illustrate the utopic vision that Montgomery, and indeed Anne herself, create on Prince Edward Island and examine how that isolated, island utopia, and Anne become transfixed into heroic visions in war-time Poland.

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Powieść L. M. Montgomery z 1908 roku pt. Ania z Zielonego Wzgórza o małej krnąbrnej dziewczynce z Nowej Szkocji, adoptowanej przez rodzinę z Wyspy Księcia Edwarda – powieść, która wyraża sentymenty północnoamerykańskiego ruchu na rzecz „nowej kobiety” i uwypukla postkolonialistyczny imperializm – wykreowała młodziutką bohaterkę istotną z punktu widzenia ruchu oporu w okupowanej Polsce. Biorąc pod uwagę, że Montgomery była spadkobierczynią białej, angielskiej/szkockiej, protestanckiej kultury najeźdźców na Wyspę Księcia Edwarda, współodpowiedzialnej za marginalizację i deportację francuskich osadników oraz anihilację (dosłowną i w przenośni) natywnego plemienia Mi’kmaq, idealistyczna transformacja słynnej postaci Ani stworzonej przez Montgomery w symbol politycznego oporu wydaje mi się niewiarygodna. W artykule, pokazuję utopijną wizję, którą Montgomery, a w istocie sama Ania, kreują na Wyspie Księcia Edwarda oraz analizuję, jak ta odizolowana, wyspiarska utopia oraz Ania przemieniają się w heroiczne wizje w Polsce w czasach wojny i okupacji.

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Wende-Erfahrung zwischen Utopie und Dystopie in Lutz Seilers Romanen

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Gortych D.

Acta Neophilologica

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2023

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vol. XXV/2

21-31

PL

Twórczość jednego z najwybitniejszych współczesnych pisarzy niemieckich, Lutza Seilera, często jest rozpatrywana w kontekście przemian politycznych z lat 1989/1990. Zarówno poetyckie krajobrazy dzieciństwa ze skażonych uranem terenów byłego NRD w tej poezji i prozie eseistycznej, jak i dwa heterotopiczne światy w powieściach Kruso (2014) i Stern 111 (2020) zdają się dopuszczać takową lekturę. Jednak w tej postenerdowskiej literaturze zawarta jest także poetycka analiza indywidualnego i zbiorowego doświadczenia egzystencjalnego związanego z przełomem politycznym, prowadzona pod kątem jego utopijnego i dystopijnego potencjału. Jak szybko utopia może się przekształcić w dystopię, zostanie ukazane na przykładzie wybranych heterotopii w prozie Seilera.

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The work of one of the most important contemporary German authors, Lutz Seiler, is often viewed against the backdrop of the German Reunion of 1989/1990. Both the poetic childhood landscapes of the uranium-contaminated former GDR areas in his poetry and short prose, and the two heterotopic novel worlds in Kruso (2014) and S t e r n 111 (2020) seem to permit such a reading. But much more is offered in this literature: a poetic examination of the individual existential and collective experience of the reunification and of their utopian and dystopian manifestations and potentials. How quickly a utopia f lips over into a dystopia is shown on the basis of heterotopias in Seiler’s prose

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D’Amaurote à Dumocala : variations sur les rois en utopie

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Rosset F.

Quêtes littéraires

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2021

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issue 11

9-22

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After recalling the figure of Pantagruel, a grandson of the king of Utopia and king of the Dipsodes - which makes it possible to evoke some of the properties of utopia, and in particular that which consists of searching within utopia itself for filial links it maintains with previous texts - the discussion is narrowed down to the figure of the king in the tradition of utopia, with Sylvain Maréchal's Last Judgement of Kings serving as an example. Next, attention is directed more specifically to the figure of the king of Poland, a figure particularly suited to stimulate the political imagination of Europeans in the 18th century, and then to the person of Stanislas Leszczyński - the only sovereign to have written a utopia. He is the author of the short novel Entretien d’un Européan avec un insulaire du Royaume de Dumocala, which is both faithful to the narrative model it helps to perpetuate and devoid of any revolutionary intentions.

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Après avoir rappelé la figure de Pantagruel, petit-fils du roi d’Utopie et roi des Dipsodes, qui permet d’évoquer quelques propriétés de l’utopie (et en particulier celle qui consiste à figurer, à l’intérieur d’elle-même, les liens de filiation qu’elle entretient avec des textes antécédents), le propos se resserre sur la figure du roi dans la tradition de l’utopie, notamment avec l’exemple du Jugement dernier des rois de Sylvain Maréchal. L’attention est ensuite plus spécifiquement dirigée vers la figure du roi de Pologne, particulièrement propre à stimuler l’imaginaire politique des Européens au XVIIIe siècle, puis sur la personne de Stanislas Leszczyński, seul souverain auteur d’utopie, avec son petit roman Entretien d’un Européan avec un insulaire du Royaume de Dumocala qui est à la fois fidèle au modèle narratif qu’il contribue à perpétuer et dénué d’intentions révolutionnaires.

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Idealne państwo (społeczeństwo) w ujęciu renesansowych utopistów

The Polish Cyborg. A Reflection on the Relationship between Man and Machine in Early Polish Modernism

« Retrouver les fils de la synchronie ». Bronisław Baczko et les lumières de l’utopie

Topique des séquences d’entrée et de sortie dans La Description de l’isle de Portraiture (1659) de Charles Sorel et La Relation de l’Ile imaginaire (1659) de Mlle de Montpensier

The Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence, Human Communication and Ethics. A Futuristic Perspective: Utopia or Dystopia?

Black utopian and dystopian technological simulation: Tupac Shakur’s holographic persona at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival

Gra w Orwella

“Etwas Fehlt”: Marxian Utopias in Bloch and Adorno

Zmierzch komedii staroattyckiej? Wybrane problemy 'Plutosa' Arystofanesa

Hledání ideálního státu. Cesta do Ofírské země M. M. Ščerbatova mezi historickým mýtem a utopií

The Vanishing Soviet Utopia in Hungary in the Light of de-Stalinization – Soviet Union as the Land of Modernization in the Hungarian Press 1950–1958

Distance and Isolation. The Role of Australia in Wojciech Gutkowski’s Colonial Dream in Journey to Kalopeia

Modernity and Utopia in Bruno Latour’s We Have Never Been Modern and Gabriel Josipovici’s What Ever Happened to Modernism

Canadian utopia in Poland: How L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables contributed to Polish Solidarity

Wende-Erfahrung zwischen Utopie und Dystopie in Lutz Seilers Romanen

D’Amaurote à Dumocala : variations sur les rois en utopie