BIOPOWER AND A SLAVE, A „ CAMP MUSLIM” AND AN UNEMPLOYED PERSON

Edward KAROLCZUK

Anthropology – Psychology – Human Hybridization

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1-4 (72-75) 2012,  Publication date: 25 October 2012

Abstract The opposite of traditional politics is biopolitics. According to Michael Foucault, it was the force which told people to live and let them die by grace. Biopolitics became indispensable for the development and existence of capitalism. The Nazi biopolitics involved depriving its victims of their own [...] Read more.

TECHNO-ORGANIC HYBRID AS A MAN OF THE FUTURE? FROM THE IDEA OF TRANSHUMANISM TO CYBORG ANTHROPOLOGY

Ewa M. WALEWSKA

Anthropology – Psychology – Human Hybridization

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1-4 (72-75) 2012,  Publication date: 25 October 2012

Abstract Innate biological features of our species have given us the possibility to produce a variety of tools which allow us to introduce numerous modifications within the human body and to expand artificially our mental and physical abilities. In order to do this, we use high-tech devices, such as prostheses [...] Read more.

PROGRAMMING HUMAN. ANTHROPOTECHNICS IN PLACE OF ANTHROPOLOGY

Rafał ILNICKI

Anthropology – Psychology – Human Hybridization

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1-4 (72-75) 2012,  Publication date: 25 October 2012

Abstract This article aims to present the current shift in thinking about humanbeings in the perspective of invasive technicization. The constant acceleration of technological progress requires a new way of functioning for man. A humanbeing is defined in the perspective of what he does. Here the concept is introduced [...] Read more.

TRANSFORMATIONS OF SENSES – BASED ON A MEMOIR OF DANIEL TAMMET, A BOY WITH ASPERGER"S SYNDROME

Aleksandra RZEPKOWSKA

Anthropology – Psychology – Human Hybridization

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1-4 (72-75) 2012,  Publication date: 25 October 2012

Abstract Daniel Tammet was born in a working-class suburb of London, in England, on 31 January 1979. He is the eldest of nine children, has three brothers and five sisters. His mother had worked as a secretarial assistant; his father was employed at a sheet metal factory. Despite early childhood epileptic seizures [...] Read more.

STRATEGIES OF EXPANDING THE TV SERIES UNIVERSE

Aurelia KUBICA

Contemporary Culture and Art

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1-4 (72-75) 2012,  Publication date: 25 October 2012

Abstract Widely understood forms of expanding the TV series universe have became the subject of this article. The various actions taken by the series creators and their audience, in effect show that the world presented in television production incorporates more and more media platforms and increasingly affects [...] Read more.

DRESS AS A SIGN OF SELF-CREATION OF THE MODERN WOMEN

Monika FOLTYN

Contemporary Culture and Art

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1-4 (72-75) 2012,  Publication date: 25 October 2012

Abstract In the article I pay particular attention to the social nature of women"s clothing. Fashion gave us a large possibility of choice – when we select concrete clothing we choose a matching identity. Feminine apparel facilitates interpersonal communication and self-expression. By proper clothing every women [...] Read more.

SUPERNATURAL – POSTMODERN POETIC OF TV SERIES (TV SHOW)

Natalia PODBIELSKA

Contemporary Culture and Art

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1-4 (72-75) 2012,  Publication date: 25 October 2012

Abstract A postmodern poetic was the article subject. To my analysis and interpretation I chose Eric Kripke"s Supernatural tv–series, aired in the United States from 2005 to the present day. In a typical study i tried to demonstrate autothematic operations, widely understood executive producers games and how [...] Read more.

THE FUTURISM AFTER FUTURISM. ABOUT THE CONCRETIZATION OF IDEAS OF AVANT-GARDE ART IN „PARTICIPATING CULTURE"

Tadeusz MICZKA

Contemporary Culture and Art

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1-4 (72-75) 2012,  Publication date: 25 October 2012

Abstract The Futurism (1909) was the first artistic activity, which rejected the past with full consequence and favoured technologies, considering hurrying forward as the only reasonable direction of development, defined as moderno latria - (disease on modernity). Not to examine detailed characteristics and [...] Read more.

KOVÁSZNAI:WRITING THE ART HISTORY FROM THE BEGINNING

Karolina GOLINOWSKA

Contemporary Culture and Art

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1-4 (72-75) 2012,  Publication date: 25 October 2012

Abstract The article refers to the situation that took place in the summer 2010 in Budapest. During that time, a spectacular art exhibition using the space of the Hungarian National Gallery has been organized. Its main purpose was to re-establish the position of forgotten Hungarian artist György Kovásznai in [...] Read more.

TRANSFORMATION OF CITY IMAGE PROMOTION FORM AT THE BEGINNING OF XXI CENTURY

Izabela DOBOSZ

Communication – Marketing - Image

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1-4 (72-75) 2012,  Publication date: 21 October 2012

Abstract The article is about the phenomenon of planned and intentional image building realized within the territorial units, based on measures from the marketing methods of controlling the market process. More and more centers of local government take part in that transformation processes in recent years, among [...] Read more.