http://hdl.handle.net/11089/40970 Ekstrawagancje i reportaże | Extravagances and reportages 2026-04-04T15:14:18Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/42462 Joanna Ostrowska, Oni. Homoseksualiści w czasie II wojny światowej, Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, Warszawa 2021, ss. 362 Juchniewicz, Andrzej Płuciennik, Jarosław 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/42461 Mit bitwy pod Grunwaldem i mit rycerski w powieści Szczepana Twardocha Wieczny Grunwald. Powieść zza końca czasów Szumańska, Justyna Płuciennik, Jarosław 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/42460 „W każdej postaci mu się podobało, z wyjątkiem kamienia”. Posthumanistyczne figuracje w Baśni o wężowym sercu Radka Raka Koza, Michał Płuciennik, Jarosław The paper concerns posthuman and emancipatory contexts of Radek Rak’s novel The Tale of the Serpent’s Heart or Another Word about Jakób Szela. The story re-tells a fabled biography of Jakób Szela, the leader of the Peasant Uprising of 1846. The world created by the novel is subjected to non-human laws and relations, as well as to the feudal system. This fantastical– political juxtaposition exposes and deconstructs various inequalities sanctioning the exploitation of the peasant class. The paper points out three interpretative areas of the book, analyzed in the posthuman context. Firstly, describing the fantastical, non-anthropocentric imagination creating the novel’s world as a space of multiple relations and influences, usually non-existent in the historical works. Secondly, the paper focuses on the de-subjectification / virtualization of the subject. This particular point is discussed with references to other analyses of Rak’s novel, as the paper argues with some of the critical stances. Finally, it considers the genre’s distortion between mythical and historical which creates a space for alternative representations of the Peasant Uprising, escaping the dialectics of the “bad” and “good” legend. The paper’s closest methodological points of reference are texts of Rosi Braidotti (one of the most prominent posthuman philosophy scholars), Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari. Using these tools, as well as author’s original propositions, the paper argues that the posthuman dimension of Rak’s novel expresses its critical effect, and postulates to change conservative relations in human and non-human relations. 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/42459 Malarska koncepcja w eseju filozoficznym Bolesława Micińskiego Koźbiał, Natasza Płuciennik, Jarosław The article discusses the essayistic work of Bolesław Miciński, who was interested in the individualization of the form of expression, both in the sphere of content and form. Contemporary thinking about philosophy in neo-positivist terms prompted the writer to create an individual dictionary of concepts that frees philosophy from rigorous frameworks and specialized jargon. In a modern, philosophical essay, he realizes a free reflection on aesthetic, philosophical, social and political issues (the relationship between art and politics). The authoress interprets the painting concept in Portret Kanta, remaining within the tricks and concepts used by the writer. The analysis of the creation of a philosophical and literary portrait, presented in the form of an essay, makes it possible to highlight the problems that the writer deals with — the issue of the existence of time in painting or the possibility of transposing concepts into images (utpictura poesis). From a polemic with the 18th-century aesthetic — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing — the authoress moves to the notion of “fugue” as a potential realization of space in music, which the writer mentioned in Podróże do piekieł. Moreover, he considers the form of a fugue in reference to classicism in literature. This sketch is an initial attempt to unravel the “hidden, significant knots” in the work of the interwar essayist. 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z