Performatywność katastrof: WTC
The Performativity of Catastrophes: The WTC

Summary/Abstract: The author puts forward the thesis that two and a half thousand years after Aeschylus we are still trying to understand and present catastrophes in the categories of drama and the protagonists it typically contains; we create coherent tales about catastrophes, divided into acts, based on strict formal requirements, making natural catastrophes human (or humanist) phenomena. He tries to look at the theatrification of the catastrophe by using theories of performativity, thus wiping out the border between what is natural in a catastrophe and what is strictly human. Thus outlining his methodological framework, he proceeds to analyze the catastrophe that was made into the first great tragedy of the 21st century, the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.

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