Dywersanci, czyli demaskacja maszyny antropologicznej
Saboteurs – An Unmasking of the Anthropological Machine

Summary/Abstract: The author throws some light on the subject matter of Mateusz Borowski and Małgorzata Sugiera’s book – In a Trap of Contradictions. Ideologies of Identity (Trio Publishing House, Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute, Warsaw 2012). She therefore notes that the authors analyse variations of the “anthropological machine”, i.e. the system of social relations “generating what is human using the human/animal and what-is-human/what-is-not-human oppositions”. Sendyka attempts to reconstruct the concept of identity, which remains undefined by the authors. At the same time, she claims that Borowski and Sugiera are unable to avoid the trap of binary oppositions; but she wavers over whether this strategy is unintentional, or also purposeful – evidence of the author’s pessimism and consciousness.

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