This text addresses the cultural phenomenon of dark academia, an aesthetic and convention that originated on Tumblr around 2015 and was widely popularized during the Covid-19 pandemic. Emerging as an internet subculture, ...

The aim of this article is to present the principles of the neo-Victorian movement using the example of the Neal Stephenson’s novel The Diamond Age. In the futuristic world created by the author, nineteenth-century ...

The doctoral dissertation focuses on the issue of constructing identity narratives by video game users, immersed in a culturally created reality—encompassing the digital environment, virtual avatars, and meanings shaped ...

Jak badać biografie? Czego uczą nas wydarzenia przełomowe? Jaki jest społeczny wymiar biografii oraz ich związek z wydarzeniami społeczno-politycznymi i przełomami w kulturze? Na te i inne pytania spróbowali odpowiedzieć ...

The author of the text presents an intriguing biography of the artist Maria Hiszpańska-Neumann. He analyses in detail the education stages of the painter, from her childhood to studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, ...

This article presents Zuzanna Bier-Korngold’s biography and thought. She was a philosopher and psychologist who emigrated to France in the1920s and then became Suzanne Pacaud. In the field of philosophy she was dealing ...

This article discusses the importance of existing secrets in the process of identity formation. The first part presents some key notions as well as the relationships between them. They are following : private, public, ...

The article is a proposal to renew the scope of the semantic concept of breakthrough, taking into account the familiar and absent semantic fields of an old Polish verb `przełomić`. The archeology of this notion allows us ...

The article attempts to analyze the strategy of building a distance to traumatic experiences on the example of Artur Sandauer’s autobiographical works. From the notion of trauma formulated by Zygmunt Freud, we have looked ...