Uatlantydzenie opowieści jako strategia wyjścia z realizmu kapitalistycznego. XXI. Nagi wodnik w śródmieściu Tomasza Bąka
The Atlantisised Story as a Strategy for Exiting Capitalist Realism: XXI. Naked Aquarius in Downtown by Tomasz Bąk
Author(s): Patryk SzajSubject(s): Political Philosophy
Published by: Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN
Keywords: Tomasz Bk; capitalist realism; contemporary Polish poetry; climate crisis; the society of the spectacle;
Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the volume of poetry by Tomasz Bąk, XXI. Naked Aquarius in Downtown (2021). The author reads the volume as an encrypted attempt to escape capitalist realism, the pretext for which is a narrative on one of the aspects of the climate catastrophe, namely sea level rise. Bąk seems to treat that “flood” as a kind of intervention of the Real, which breaks more and more through the cracks of capitalist reality principle. Bąk’s poetic strategy is to keep on finding these kinds of cracks right in the middle of capitalist realism and to do the work of mourning after the world that has already ended.
Journal: Civitas. Studia z filozofii polityki
- Issue Year: 2022
- Issue No: 30
- Page Range: 85-108
- Page Count: 24
- Language: Polish