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Transhumanistyczna utopia w kulturze popularnej – przypadek Kraftwerk
Transhuman utopia in pop culture – Kraftwerk case

Author(s): Andrzej Juszczyk
Subject(s): Philosophy, Social Sciences, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Sociology, Sociology of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: utopia; transhumanizm; kultura popularna; muzyka elektroniczna; intermedialność

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the analysis of work of pop group Kraftwerk in utopian context. Kraftwerk’ work is treated as a intermedial combination of music, texts, visual art and scenical performance. Its main content is a comprehensive vision of non-existed (yet) world of the man-machine. Kraftwerk’s work is compared to avant-garde musical experiments and to classical literary (and film) utopias because numerous formal and ideological similarities. The article is also an attempt of explanation of social and political background of Kraftwerk’s transhumanist vision.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 21
  • Page Range: 61-71
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish