Issue 3 (65)

Media audiowizualne w perspektywach posthumanistycznych

2025

Publication date: 02.12.2025

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The publication of this volume was financed by the Jagiellonian University in Kraków – Faculty of Management and Social Communication & Polish Academy of Sciences

Cover design: Małgorzata Flis

Licence: CC BY 4.0

Editorial team

Editor-in-Chief Anna Nacher

Deputy Editor-in-Chief Ewelina Twardoch-Raś

Secretary Justyna Janik

Redaktorki koncepcji tematycznej numeru prof. dr hab. Małgorzata Radkiewicz, Marta Stańczyk, Ewelina Twardoch-Raś

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Media audiowizualne w perspektywach posthumanistycznych. Wprowadzenie

Małgorzata Radkiewicz, Marta Stańczyk, Ewelina Twardoch-Raś

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 3 (65), 2025, pp. 287-295

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.25.024.22070

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W kręgu idei

Niechętni uczestnicy. O zwierzętach w teatrze operowym

Agnieszka Szynk-Mika

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 3 (65), 2025, pp. 296-313

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.25.025.22071

This article examines the presence of animals in opera theatre, offering a critical reflection on the conditions under which they are either subjectified or instrumentalized through artistic practices. The discussion is grounded in case studies of both Polish and international opera productions from the past three decades. These include D’ARC, directed by Krystian Lada at the Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego (2024); The Ring of the Nibelung, directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov at Staatsoper Unter den Linden (2022); and large-scale productions by the Wrocław Opera staged at the Hala Ludowa since the 1997. The author considers both the representation of animals and the implications of their actual involvement in artistic performance. The analysis is framed within a zoocentric perspective, which challenges traditional anthropocentric approaches to the study of art. Taking into account the performative turn in contemporary theatre – crucial to the evolution of modern opera – as well as the growing influence of posthumanist thought within the field of animal studies, the article draws on theoretical frameworks developed in the study of dramatic and postdramatic theatre, as well as performance theory. Additionally, scholarly work from the field of film studies, which often incorporates methodologies rooted in interdisciplinary animal studies, serves as a valuable point of reference.

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Bezludne krajobrazy. Motywy postantropocentryczne we współczesnych polskich animacjach krótkometrażowych ‒ Zieleń (reż. Karolina Kajetanowicz, 2021) i Zapach ziemi (reż. Olivia Rosa, 2023)

Agnieszka Powierska-Domalewska

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 3 (65), 2025, pp. 314-332

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.25.026.22072

Although seemingly distinct in their styles, the student short films Green (2021) by Karolina Kajetanowicz and Smell of the Ground (2023) by Olivia Rosa are united, among other elements, by the motif of unpeopled landscapes. This article examines this shared motif, along with other compositional aspects of both animated shorts, through the lens of ecocriticism. The analysis engages with the literary contexts of Smell of the Ground, Ingo Kowarik’s Four Natures Approach, the concepts of natureculture and the sublime (taking into account recontextualization proposed by Barbara Frydryczak and Mateusz Salwa), Monika Żółkoś’s reflections on cultural representations of insects, cinema sensuous theory, and Anna Maria Piskorska’s insights into mindfulness in slow cinema.

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Ten las – fotokolaże Katarzyny Zabłockiej

Justyna Hanna Budzik

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 3 (65), 2025, pp. 333-351

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.25.027.22073

This article analyses the creative process of Katarzyna Zabłocka, focusing on the stages of the creation of her artistic series: Report from the Border (2021), The Sleep (2022), and Family Herbarium (2022), which reveal the artistʼs unique material-visual strategy in metaphorically narrating the humanitarian crisis on the Polish-Belarussian border. The transformations of materials and artistic techniques that Zabłocka uses as metaphors for the crisis will be analysed, as well as their impact on the audienceʼs interpretation of the stories presented. The paper will also address questions of the ethics of such representations of the refugee experience. Above all, the paper aims to show the metamorphosis of the materials used by the artist and the metamorphic nature of pictorial narratives about the refugee crisis.

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Pejzaże kultury

Anthropocentric Landscape and Soundscape in Cli-Fi Extrapolations TV Series

Ebrahim Barzegar

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 3 (65), 2025, pp. 352-369

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.25.028.22074

This paper aims to explore the detrimental consequences of anthropocentric perspectives on the environment as portrayed in the television series Extrapolations. Comprising eight interlinked episodes and featuring an ensemble cast, Apple TV’s 2023 production Extrapolations is set in a near-future dystopian Earth grappling with the consequences of ecological collapse. Grounded in the theoretical framework of the ecological turn, particularly Timothy Mortonʼs concept of hyperobjects, it investigates the interconnectedness of capitalism, global warming, and their destructive impacts on both human and non-human life. Through close analysis of selected episodes ‒ depicting wildfires, animal extinctions, and flooding ‒ these phenomena are examined as hyperobjects produced by capitalism that contribute to the degradation of marine ecosystems and disrupt interspecies relationality. Furthermore, drawing on Donna Haraway’s concept of becoming-with, the paper explores narrative connections between a human mother and a whale, emphasizing feminism, agency, and motherhood in the development of kinship between humans and non-humans. Finally, the third section interrogates traditional Jewish interpretations of the punishing deluge, proposing instead a more earth-centered, ecologically attuned understanding of catastrophe and renewal.

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Kosmologia internetu platform

Patryk Ciesielczyk

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 3 (65), 2025, pp. 370-388

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.25.029.22075

The aim of this paper is to describe and analyze how the platform, as a form of governance driven by algorithmization, establishes a new spatial order. The text focuses on Benjamin Brattonʼs speculative theorization of “the Stack” as an “accidental megastructure,” a model useful for understanding the organization of large-scale computational systems and their potential to radically transform social and economic structures. Additionally, the paper examines the spatiality of the interface layer, and outlines examples of how digital practices articulate experiences of place, territory, and the user’s positioning in platform-based interaction.

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Muzea wirtualne i muzea w metawersie: propozycja definicji i typologii

Maria Łukomska

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 3 (65), 2025, pp. 389-399

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.25.030.22076

The article analyses the concept of virtual museums in the contemporary digital space. It discusses previous definitions and classifications of virtual museums and provides a brief typology along with selected examples. The typological case studies include: the Museum of Other Realities, the PODO Museum, and the Artsteps application.

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Konteksty i rozważania

In and Out of the Biolab: Caring for Liminality, Peripherality, and Queerness. Karolina Żyniewicz and Agnieszka Anna Wołodźko in conversation with Ewelina Twardoch-Raś

Karolina Żyniewicz, Agnieszka Anna Wołodźko, Ewelina Twardoch-Raś

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 3 (65), 2025, pp. 400-425

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.25.031.22077

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Gra materiałem – wyobraźnia metamorficzna w Kamień – papier – nożyce Anny Szyjkowskiej-Piotrowskiej. [Recenzja książki: Anna Szyjkowska-Piotrowska, Kamień – papier – nożyce. Wrażliwość metamorficzna jako projekt sztuki i filozofii, Słowo/Obraz Terytoria, Gdańsk 2024, ss. 188]

Marianna Michałowska

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 3 (65), 2025, pp. 426-435

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.25.032.22078

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Słowa kluczowe: opera theatre, animals, animal studies, Green, Smell of the Ground, short animation, natureculture, ecocriticism, humanitarian crisis, photo-collages, metamorphic sensitivity, anthropocene, extrapolations, landscape, soundscape, anthropocene, climate-fiction, ecocriticism, Stack, platform capitalism, algorithmic governmentality, speculative design, museum, virtuality, virtual museum, metaverse, art on the internet, virtual reality

Funding information

The publication of this volume was financed by the Jagiellonian University in Kraków – Faculty of Management and Social Communication & Polish Academy of Sciences