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Nostalgia za wiekiem pary
(Creatio Fantastica, 2016-04) Molenda, Maciej; Uniwersytet Wrocławski
Roughly around 2007, the popularity of steampunk aesthetics has risen unexpectedly. It has transformed from a subcultural niche into a pop culture trend, and nowadays it is attracting fans from all over the world. In addition, steampunk aesthetics has not only been used in literature, films, comic books, video games and fashion, but it has also become a lifestyle and a worldview inspired by the ideas of the Victorians. The author argues that the popularity of steampunk is the result of some kind of nostalgia shared by many consumers of popular culture. This nostalgia for the nineteenth century may result from the nature of today's technology or from the condition of contemporary society. This theory is greatly inspired by Solange Kiehlbauch’s and Re-becca Onion’s studies. Finally, the author outlines general characteristics of steampunk philosophy, basing on common opinions shared by fans of this aesthetic trend.
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Bardziej ludzcy niż ludzie? Cyborgi ― Androidy ― Replikanci
(Creatio Fantastica, 2015-03-15) Marcela, Mikołaj; Uniwersytet Śląski
Donna Haraway in A Cyborg Manifesto states: “By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.” Contemporary novels, movies, TV series or computer games show cyborgs and other images of hybrids of machine and organism, as well as figures of machines resembling humans, like androids or replicants, confronting us with questions about borders between human and non-human (or inhuman). In the world of developing technology in which we need technology to express ourselves and be who we are, cyborg and android figures demand answers to ques-tions: what does it mean to be a human today and can hybrids of machine and human become a kind of superhuman? In this article I discuss two emblematic cases of androids that seem more human than their human creators: Call from Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Alien: Resurrection and repli-cants from Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. Both, androids from Jeunet’s movie and replicants from Dick’s novel, blur the boundaries between humans and aliens/machnines and seem a next step in evolution of men, as Michel Foucault in The Order of Things suggests that “man is only a recent invention, a figure not yet two centuries old, a new wrinkle in our knowledge, and that he will disappear again as soon as that knowledge has discovered a new form.”.
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Antropotanatologia pętli
(Creatio Fantastica, 2014) Zimnoch, Mateusz; Uniwersytet Jagielloński
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"To inni" Neila Gaimana jako reinterpretacja idei wiecznego powrotu Friedricha Nietzschego
(Creatio Fantastica, 2014) Zimnoch, Mateusz; Uniwersytet Jagielloński
The aim of this interpretative essay is the comparative analysis of Neil Gaiman’s The Other People as the narrative variation on Friedrich Nietzsche’s idea of the eternal return expounded among the aphorism no 341 in The Gay Science. The similarities between both stories are irrefutably clear, however, the philosophical analysis of the Gaiman’s narrative shows some important differences. Whilst Nietzsche’s story about the demon appearing in the middle of the human loneliness to illuminate him with the truth of eternal return as a primary ontological rule, Gaiman sketches a portrait of internal solitude filled with a never ending fight between two aspects of any human being. Hence, a philosophical analysis of The Other People in terms of Nietzsche’s philosophy finally points at the concept of mirror stage by Jacques Lacan. Such a context discovers another level of the story which is a bitter polemic with Jean Paul Sartre’s „Hell is other people”. At the same time, connection of eternal return idea and mirror stage with Michel Foucault’s theory of space leads to a final conclusion that Gaiman’s story creates a special kind of place which exists and does not exist at the same time being a metaphoric area of psychical damnation of human being. For incarnation of philosophic metaphor is a seed for heterotopia.
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