Andrzej Juszczyk

Artykuł poświęcony jest analizie klasycznych tekstów utopijnych (Thomas More, Tommaso Campanella, Johann V. Andreae, Francis Bacon) pod kątem zaprezentowanego w nich obrazu kobiety. Autor omawia kwestie: miejsca kobiety w organizacji utopijnych społeczeństw, roli kobiety w rodzinie, pracy kobiet, dostępu kobiet do nauki, w kontekście deklarowanej przez autorów literackich utopii równości obu płci. Tekst sytuuje też utopijne wizje społeczeństw idealnych na tle badań historycznych dotyczących miejsca kobiety w Europie XVI i XVII wieku.

Women in Men’s Dreams of an Ideal World. Classic Literary Utopias of the 16th and 17th Centuries

The article focuses on the analysis of classic utopian texts (Thomas More, Tommaso Campanella, Johann V. Andreae, Francis Bacon) in terms of women’s image presented in them. The author discusses the issues of the women’s place in the organization of utopian societies, the role of women in the family, the work of women and women’s access to science, in context of the equality of men and women declared by the authors of the literary utopias. The text compares utopian visions of ideal societies and the results of historical research on women’s place in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries.

GOING TO UTOPIA...
The article concerns the literary manifestations of the functioning of the concept of „Central Europe”. The author starts his essay with an analysis of the political-historical origin of this term and subsequently reviews its contemporary representations in the works of Polish and Ukrainian writers (Stasiuk, Andruchowycz, Żadan, Irwaneć). In their works which take up the issue of collective identity, the above authors who themselves come from the region which they describe in their books, often resort to the use of elements of the Utopia and anti-Utopia. An analysis of this phenomenon leads one to observe that the works in question create the myth of Central Europe as a place whose role is to create an identity (between East and West) which in reality does not exist.

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.