%0 Journal Article
%T Transhumanistyczna utopia w kulturze popularnej – przypadek Kraftwerk
%A Juszczyk, Andrzej
%J Wielogłos
%V 2014
%R 10.4467/2084395XWI.14.033.2991
%N Numer 3 (21) 2014: Nowe (i stare) światy. Utopie i dystopie w filozofii i literaturze
%P 61-71
%K utopia, transhumanizm, kultura popularna, muzyka elektroniczna, intermedialność
%@ 1897-1962
%D 2015
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/wieloglos/artykul/transhumanistyczna-utopia-w-kulturze-popularnej-przypadek-kraftwerk
%X 
	Transhuman utopia in pop culture – Kraftwerk case

	The article focuses on the analysis of work of pop group Kraftwerk in utopian context. Kraftwerk’ work is treated as a intermedial combination of music, texts, visual art and scenical performance. Its main content is a comprehensive vision of non-existed (yet) world of the man-machine. Kraftwerk’s work is compared to avant-garde musical experiments and to classical literary (and film) utopias because numerous formal and ideological similarities. The article is also an attempt of explanation of social and political background of Kraftwerk’s transhumanist vision.