Issue 2 (10) 2011

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2011

Publication date: 14.06.2012

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Mapy Google jako nowy model kognitywny. O imperium, które zbudowało mapę w skali 1 : 1, jego strategiach wizualizacyjnych i polityce

Anna Maj

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 2 (10) , 2011, pp. 5-30

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.12.001.0360

The paper concerns the issue of unconscious – but paradoxically – globally shared cognitive models which are designed by Internet corporations like Google. The author concentrates here on the specific model of geographic (and thus political and cultural) knowledge presented by two map services provided by Google – Google Maps and Google Earth. Several significant cases of over-interpretation and misinterpretation of the maps and its errors are described and analysed. The attention is given both to cultural significance of the misunderstood and under-appreciated shift of knowledge, crucial for public discourse and cognitive processes (both knowledge and intellectual abilities) of future society, and to the role of Google corporation in this irreversible process.
Research is performed on political (global), cultural (societal) and personal (individual identity) levels. It indicates three contexts in which maps are interpreted by authorities, societies and individuals – politics (military context), sociology of knowledge (folklore context) and culture (Internet-based identity construction context). It evokes questions on the transforming conditions of contemporary warfare and peace maintenance, the reinterpretation of political borders, the real control of the map, but also some philosophical issues as the truth and falsehood, the necessity of new methods of selection, differentiation and validation of veracity of specific data, the fragility of knowledge, especially socially created and shared. Within media anthropology approach the author presents the sphere of netlore and certain Web community strategies of dealing with obviously false or lacking objectivity data. Finally, the nuances of Google politics and its strategies of data visualisation (which both co-create the described cognitive model) are shown in relation with the topology of map errors and map falsification methods characteristic for neogeography.

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Klaunada – sztuczki czy sztuka?

Agata Bisko

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 2 (10) , 2011, pp. 31-40

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.12.002.0361

The article based on scientific studies and literature is an attempt to describe and analyze this type of circus arts as a response to the title question whether while talking about clowning we are dealing with the actual expression of artistry or with simple tricks intended primarily for middlebrow audience and children. For this purpose various literary sources ranging from textbook for students of clowning, by recognized works of world literature like The Clown of Nobel Prize for Literature winner, Heinrich Böll and The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder of Henry Miller or studies on the circus of Polish authors, to the anthropological essays on the figure of clown are analyzed. The article is conventionally divided into two parts. The first one – so to say – disassembles the clown’s performance to show the workshop of this circus artist. It focuses also on the matter of appearance and props, lists the types of clowns and his shows and describes disciplines involved in his work. The second part introduces briefly the scientific reflection on the scenic character in its three scenes, which are the concept of scapegoat, Savior and troublemaker, at the same time highlighting its ambivalence.

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Odejście pierrotów. Siegfried Kracauer i moc przypadku

Karolina Charewicz-Jakubowska

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 2 (10) , 2011, pp. 41-48

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.12.003.0362

The text is a short commentary to the Polish translations of selected Weimar essays written by Siegfried Kracauer in the 1920s and 1930s. The analysis of popular culture undertaken by the Frankfurter is based on particular examples – ‘cases’ picked out from the life of the urban tissue – and at the same time it represents a bright assessment of the present social and cultural changes. An example of such careful observations with a punch line aimed at different current conditions are among others the texts commenting on circus events – including performances of the famous Fratellini group. In his analysis and commentaries Kracauer shows the emancipatory nature of the popular culture and at the same time determines the direction for further research carried out against a clear division between elite and egalitarian content and groups of recipients.

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Wędrujący trzej pierroci, Akrobata – śliicznie!, Varieté – program dzisiejszy, Jasnowidz w Varieté, Gorączka złota, Światła wielkiego miasta, Triumf Chaplina, O filmie Cyrk, Chaplin jako pielgrzym

Siegfried Kracauer

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 2 (10) , 2011, pp. 49-63

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.12.004.0363

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Klown rzecznikiem korporacji – Ronald McDonald w obliczu nowych wyzwań kultury konsumpcyjnej

Blanka Brzozowska

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 2 (10) , 2011, pp. 64-75

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.12.005.0364

This article aims to present the changes in the image of the McDonald’s mascot – Ronald. These changes are mainly set in the context of social movements for healthy food and issues of advertisement ethics – especially advertisement addressed to children. In the face of intensifying voices of discontent, the corporation is trying to re-create Ronald as the Spokesman, who responds to the challenges posed by the consumer requests. Despite these efforts he remains controversial and ambiguous, which is reflected in the subversive practices of using the clown character as a tool of artistic and political provocation

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Cyrk ze złamanym sercem, czyli dokumentalny zapis entropicznego rozpadu

Małgorzata Smoleń

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 2 (10) , 2011, pp. 76-91

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.12.006.0365

Author of the article discusses in details the documentary film directed by Marek Tomasz Pawłowski The Circus with a Broken Heart (2009), in the context of the condition of Polish contemporary circus after 1989. This documentary film presents a picture of a modern circus, infected with entropy, decline and chaos. These forces destroy all constitutive elements of a circus: artists, arena, technical background, and the audience as well. Through presentation of specific people, events and phenomena the director creates the image of slow decline of a small circus “Bojaro”. Based on this picture, the author of the article draws conclusions about the causes of the crisis of Polish circus, and tries to analyze the image of the Polish province under capitalism. Reffering to the artistic values of the documentary, the author indicates its main assets, namely the use of metaphors and complex aesthetic figures, and the well organized dramatic structure. The analysis emphasis the figure of clown, which despite a documentary nature of the movie, goes beyond the reality and becomes the main metaphor of this film. According to the author’s the ethnographic fi lm category is useful to discover a hidden meaning of this documentary film.

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Rozległe konteksty performatywności. Dwugłos o książce Freddiego Rokema

Anna Kawalec

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 2 (10) , 2011, pp. 92-97

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.12.007.0366

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Tespiańczycy w przestrzeni kultury popularnej. Dwugłos o książce Freddiego Rokema

Eugeniusz Wilk

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 2 (10) , 2011, pp. 98-101

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.12.008.0367

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Reviews and Resources

Sztuka ciała jako teologia nagości i abjectu, czyli o wpływie diagnoz Giorgia Agambena na refleksję o sztuce współczesnej

Małgorzata Bacińska

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 2 (10) , 2011, pp. 102-113

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.12.009.0368

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Postczłowiek jako forma życia

Joanna Jeśman

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 2 (10) , 2011, pp. 114-118

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.12.010.0369

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Liberałowie na wojennej ścieżce

Grzegorz Marchwiński

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 2 (10) , 2011, pp. 119-129

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.12.011.0370

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Potworność ukrywana / potworność eksponowana

Michał Mencfel

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 2 (10) , 2011, pp. 130-137

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.12.012.0371

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Komizm w czasach niedojrzałości

Wojciech Józef Burszta

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 2 (10) , 2011, pp. 138-141

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.12.036.0372

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Literatura i przyroda. Zmiana perspektywy?

Justyna Sierakowska

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 2 (10) , 2011, pp. 142-145

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.12.037.0373

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Współczesna kulturologia rosyjska. Rekonesans

Sław Krzemień-Ojak

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 2 (10) , 2011, pp. 146-162

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.12.038.0374

Over the last twenty years Russian cultural sciences, known there under the, now well established, term culturology, exist and expand very vigorously. At the beginning of the 90’s culturology became a required course in all colleges equally including those specializing in liberal arts and technology. This new, important milestone started a dynamic, rich process of the science’s development and metamorphoses. Exploratory text by the Author was conceived with the goal of introducing these processes and outlining their consequences.

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Národopis, etnografia, antropologia społeczna, antropologia kulturowa… Kilka uwag o historii nauk o kulturze w Czechach

Magdalena Zdrodowska

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 2 (10) , 2011, pp. 163-182

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.12.039.0375

The article summarizes the history of the academic refl ection on the culture research in Czech Republic from the beginnings of the národopis in the late 19th century till contemporary refl ection on culture under the brand of anthropology. It covers the diffi culties with defi ning the fi eld of the research as well as the discipline name problem. The plurality of disciplines we can now observe in Czech cultural studies is explained in context of the social and political circumstances, especially the belonging to the soviet universum after the 2nd World War. Finally the article tries to explain the great diffi culty with application of the Western, especially British, cultural studies into the postcommunist intellectual milieu.

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