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Material without qualities – digital technology as a metamedium Today, we witness two generative forces of digital media culture meeting – flexible, open, easy-to-use digital technology and large-scale social communication, sharing of in- formation, knowledge and media representations. These two forces are equally important in media convergence and divergence, but also tightly coupled. This paper...
Technological imagination and the question of identity in contemporary Japanese Popular convictions as to character of Japanese culture are dominated by the orientalist stereotypes that include self-contradicting images of a society that is traditional and at the same time modern and technology-based. The ambiguous portrait of Japan seems to a certain extent justified, if one takes into account the...
Cyberspace – Cyberpresence – Cybertheatre In antiquity Zeus descending ex machina on the scene, caused the performance to became more spectacular and affecting. In the Middle Ages the same task was fulfilled by fire blazing gates of hell, in the Romanticism – dioramas and now LCD screens, video cameras, microports and devices which transform sound, projectors or the Internet. If theater does not want...
Another dimension of openness. Internet reproduction and redistribution of cultural content In the article, the author uses the statistics to discuss the real growth of creativity of networked digital media users. He suggests that in the field of cultural studies grassroot creativity is often overemphasized, putting researchers at the risk of “cultural populism” (described by Jim McGuigan in the...
Remix vs. mashup – on how two cybercultural metaphors resonate The article is concerned with the gentle shift within theorizing on cyberculture where the well known and much publicized metaphor of remix has often been employed as a paradigmatic tool to describe the culture of constant reconfiguration as well as (according to Lawrence Lessig’s famous statetment) Read/Write culture. Given the popularity...
Antropology of literature – project of interdisciplinarity or transdisciplinarity? The aim of this article is to discuss on a few antropology of literature conceptions from a different research circles and debate about proposed relations between involved disciplines. I paid a special attention on the manner of defining the research field of the antropology of literature in particular projects. This...
Multimediality as a new aesthetics of contemporary culture – the example of new polish drama Today, in the times of the Internet, everyone has the right to create their own virtual reality that they will explain, promote, or actually sell as a useful and simultaneously attractive image of the modern world. In my article, devoted to era of new media in a modern Polish drama, I also promote my vision...
The third culture. On contemporary relations among art, science and technology Contemporary cultures undergo the process of deep and diverse hybridization. Among numerous elements and factors of this process, relations between art and science play no- wadays very important role. I analyse this concept in the framework of the theory of the third culture, C.P. Snow put forward in his Rede lecture...
Technological imagination and the question of identity in contemporary Japanese In this essay we elaborate on the phenomenon of independent computer games by com-paring it to the independent stream of American cinema – also known as Indiewood. The parallel between the film and gaming industries, that can be observed in the United States, has its roots in the early years of arcade games when the young...
Google Maps as a new cognitive model. On the empire that built the map in 1 : 1 scale, its strategies of visualisation and politics The paper concerns the issue of unconscious – but paradoxically – globally shared cognitive models which are designed by Internet corporations like Google. The author concentrates here on the specific model of geographic (and thus political and cultural) knowledge presented...
Problems with philosophical engineering Hilary Putnam once wrote that all these very abstract and seemingly idle philosophical arguments eventually lead to major discoveries in the fields of politics, science, etc. Follo- wing this remark, I would like to draw a connection between two debates. The first one is the famous exchange between Jacques Derrida and John Searle – perhaps the most important...
A Day from Life on Earth, or YouTube as cyberculture The article attempt to define YouTube’s cyberculture by describing a model of its user and by showing the ways of participation in this particular cyberspace. Author starts his research by mentioning the rick roll strategy as one of the major practices of “using” the YouTube content. However the main part of the article is concentrating on the...
Aporias of the internet art. Cybercultural utopias twenty years later During the last two decades almost all the utopias of freedom, communication, access and cultural diversity have faced, respectively, problems of cenzorship, e-invigilation, exclusion and aesthetic homogenization. The reflection on cyberculture in its first years was characterized by the development of methodology, fascination...
Synowie François Fratelliniego w paryskim Cyrku d’Hiver. Występ można nazwać historycznym, bo nie ma już więcej pierrotów. Zostały wyciągnięte z minionego stulecia, trzy zaginione czerwone kostiumy. Poprute i nieużywane wędrują w takt niespiesznej muzyki, wtedy nie spieszono się tak. Wędrują zawsze w pludrach, ramiona unoszą wysoko i opuszczają, zawsze do tej samej muzyki. Przemęczeni wędrowcy wypadają...
Bazową kategorią ostatniej z książek Rokema jest pojęcie praktyk dyskursywnych (discursive practices), wyrażające ów teoretycznie dualny lub graniczny charakter (fikcyjno-realny oraz psychiczno-cielesny). W rozdziale pierwszym Rokem przywołał ważne konteksty dla swojej tezy: dramat Sofoklesa Król Edyp oraz orację Arystofanesa z Uczty. Konteksty te ukierunkowały autora w poszukiwaniu wspólnej płaszczyzny...
ontemporary Russian Culturology. Exploration Over the last twenty years Russian cultural sciences, known there under the, now well established, term culturology, exist and expand very vigorously. At the beginning of the 90’s culturology became a required course in all colleges equally including those specializing in liberal arts and technology. This new, important milestone started a dynamic, rich...
Anna Kawalec omawia w swym tekście książkę ważną. Freddie Rokem, autor Philosophers and Thespians, porusza kluczowe kwestie nie tylko z punktu widzenia dynamicznie rozwijających się badań nad performatywnością (i tak zwanego zwrotu performatywnego), ale również kreśli szeroką perspektywę zagadnień łączących się z refleksją nad tropami filozoficznymi, teatralnymi i estetycznymi, przy czym czyni to...
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