Monika Sadowska
Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 2 (55) Bio-aktywne rumowisko historii cz. II, 2023, pp. 113 - 116
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.23.008.18374Monika Sadowska
Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 2 (52) Bio-aktywne rumowisko historii cz. I , 2022, pp. 187 - 211
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.22.014.16311This article is an attempt to develop a posthumanist messianic figure additional to those created by Walter Benjamin in 20th century. The task of those figures is to provide a way of living in the times of crisis. I argue that the era that we live in –the anthropocene (with all of its catastrophes) –requires a posthumanist update to Benjamin’s philosophy. Therefore I use the case study of rock climbers as a collective subject that dismantles the dominant language of historical politics by creating names of climbing routes based on a mockery. The process of disassembling the language reveals the materiality of the rock and allows its history to be recovered. My attempt is based on the analysis of the El Pułkownik wall in the Liban quarry (Cracow, Poland).
Monika Sadowska
Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 4 (42), 2019, pp. 509 - 523
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.19.026.11922This article is an attempt to develop a posthumanist reflection on port cities. The prevailing division into the water and land part of these cities implies many inequalities in the perception and treatment of both these areas and their inhabitants. On the other hand, the experience of port communities reported in books and articles seems to be embedded in the port as one place, without the need to divide it into water and land. The spatial development of these cities also confirms the small legitimacy of such a distinction. So could ports become places of “one life”? How could we equalize the rights of their human and non-human inhabitants? I am looking for answers to these questions in this text.
Monika Sadowska
Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 2 (52) Bio-aktywne rumowisko historii cz. I , 2022, pp. 187 - 195
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.22.013.16310