Splot i liminalność. Pojęcie splotu w koncepcji systemu kościelnego Tomasza Polaka w kontekście hiperliminalnej współczesności
Nexus and Liminality: Tomasz Polak’s Concept of the Church System in the Context of Hyperliminal Modernity

Summary/Abstract: The article reconstructs and critically reinterprets Tomasz Polak’s con- cept of „nexus”, proposed to describe the church system as a “social machine.” Nexus is treated as a mechanism that couples project, phantasm, and the sym- bolic order, thereby stabilising a paradoxical linkage of freedom and domination. Set against the anthropology of liminality (van Gennep, Turner) and accounts of modern “hyperliminality,” the analysis shows that this mechanism is not unique to the Church but a variant of broader institutional techniques for sustaining a “state of exception” (Agamben) and processing desire (Benjamin). The current crisis of the church system stems less from putative “unreformability” than from competi- tion with flexible secular liminal structures – above all capitalism – which more effectively exploit the logic of permanent normative suspension.

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