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In a Trap of Contemplations over Identity

Summary/Abstract: A review of Małgorzata Sugiera and Mateusz Borowski’s book In a Trap of Contradictions. Ideologies of Identity (Trio Publishing House, Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute, Warsaw 2012), which analyses cultural transformations in the issue of identity. Kowalczyk claims that the authors actually sometimes fall into the trap they are describing, i.e. that of the “anthropological machine” manufacturing humanity. The reviewer also thinks that the book is driven by the unspoken conviction that the higher arts maintain their moral status, something which is conspicuously absent in the texts of pop culture, and, due to this the authors fail to notice the subversive potential of the latter.

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