Ruchliwa armia kultur

Andrzej  Zaporowski

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A Mobile Army of Cultures

In this essay the author claims that if one is defined in terms of a mobile army of cultures, then one will turn to be possibly a flexible and innovative creature. The very expression “a mobile army” is borrowed from F. Nietzsche but it is the author who associates this expression with a word “culture”. Culture is taken to be a set of attitudes, like belief, intention, or solidarity, which are of mental yet intersubjective nature. On the other hand, one is a part of a realm of physical events where one’s actions are an instance of such events. Some of one’s actions are non-reflexive since they are conditioned by the sets in question. Still, such sets emerge as a result of one’s entering into a series of interactions with, among others, other non-reflexively acting actors. There exits then a feedback between attitudes and actions (events). Culture is an orientation system, and a series of interactions makes one change it, where a change amounts to a reconfiguration of attitudes due to temporary tensions among them. In this respect one not only is modelled by the reality of physical events (actions) but also models it. Since there is more than one agent with such a capacity, an army of cultures can be imagined. Moreover, such an army is attributed a characteristic of mobility. In this respect, when acting non-reflexively one faces a mobile army of cultures where one’s culture is temporarily a part of this army.

Abstract: In this essay the author claims that if one is defined in terms of a mobile army of cultures, then one will turn to be possibly a flexible and innovative creature. The very expression “a mobile army” is borrowed from F. Nietzsche but it is the author who associates this expression with a word “culture”. Culture is taken to be a set of attitudes, like belief, intention, or solidarity, which are of mental yet intersubjective nature. On the other hand, one is a part of a realm of physical events where one’s actions are an instance of such events. Some of one’s actions are non-reflexive since they are conditioned by the sets in question. Still, such sets emerge as a result of one’s entering into a series of interactions with, among others, other non-reflexively acting actors. There exits then a feedback between attitudes and actions (events). Culture is an orientation system, and a series of interactions makes one change it, where a change amounts to a reconfiguration of attitudes due to temporary tensions among them. In this respect one not only is modelled by the reality of physical events (actions) but also models it. Since there is more than one agent with such a capacity, an army of cultures can be imagined. Moreover, such an army is attributed a characteristic of mobility. In this respect, when acting non-reflexively one faces a mobile army of cultures where one’s culture is temporarily a part of this army.

Keywords

kultura, ruchliwa armia, postawa, zdarzenie, działanie, napięcie

culture, a mobile army, attitude, event, action, condition, tension

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Information: Arts & Cultural Studies Review, 2018, Issue 1 (35), pp. 1 - 17

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.18.001.8588

Article type: Original article

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Ruchliwa armia kultur

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A Mobile Army of Cultures

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Andrzej Zaporowski

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4260-8810

Adam Mickiewicz University, Wieniawskiego 1, 61-712 Poznań, Poland

Published at: 04.04.2018

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