%0 Journal Article %T Multimediality as a new aesthetics of contemporary culture – the example of new polish drama %A Baluch, Wojciech %J Arts & Cultural Studies Review %V 2011 %R 10.4467/20843860PK.11.011.0232 %N Issue 1 (9) %P 120-126 %K new media, lev manovich, henry jenkins, multimedial aesthetics, hybrydic reality %@ 1895-975X %D 2011 %U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przeglad-kulturoznawczy/article/multimedialnosc-jako-nowa-estetyka-we-wspolczesnej-kulturze-na-przykladzie-nowego-polskiego-dramatu %X Multimediality as a new aesthetics of contemporary culture – the example of new polish drama Today, in the times of the Internet, everyone has the right to create their own virtual reality that they will explain, promote, or actually sell as a useful and simultaneously attractive image of the modern world. In my article, devoted to era of new media in a modern Polish drama, I also promote my vision of the world. Discusing with proposals of Lev Manovich and Henry Jenkins, I make an attempt to describe new reality as a new multimedial aestetics. On a base of analysis of chosen polish dramas, written on the turning point of XX and XXI century by young Polish dramatists, I try to establish the concept of weak discourse which seems to be more adequate than concepts of hybrydic reality, which create a discomfort for modern people. This concept is also more open for critical reflection which I hinted at briefly at the end of this article