Anty-Nekros. Deklaracje na temat ontologii martwego ciała
Anti-Nekros. Declarations about the Ontology of the Dead Body

Summary/Abstract: A far-reaching review-commentary on “Nekros. Wprowadzenie do ontologii martwego ciała” by Ewa Domańska (PWN, Warsaw 2017). In a discourse about the proposed ontology of the dead body the corpse is relegated from the foreground and the meticulously prepared index of concepts features it in a “corpse/cadaver” superposition as a notion inferior vis a vis the “dead body”. The main register, on the other hand, mentions “remains” (“bones”, “ashes”), and earlier also “relics”. This lexical shift is symptomatic. The corpse is not a fitting protagonist for an animistic necro-novel since it is much too human. The author of “Nekros” crosses the horizon of texts and their exegesis, looks into graves, takes part in exhumations, and studies works on biology, soil science, criminalistics, and law. But she also gazes into the future and extracts its forecasts from the present. The humanities (with the prefix: bio), which she favours, are prospective, progressive, projecting, and prognostic – in a word: visionary, a fact of which their creator is well aware. “I place my reflections (…) within a future-oriented perspective – upon a scale of extremely long duration and profound time”.

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