Splątany świat
Entangled world

Author(s): Anna Krajewska
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: entangled world; anti-binary aesthetics; the performative humanities
Summary/Abstract: The book Entangled World is a scholarly monograph dedicated to outlining a new approach to literature and art following the new categories derived from quantum physics, i.e. quantum entanglement (elementary particles are born or become linked in such a way that their properties are inherently correlated). From this perspective, ‘entangled states’ ceases to be just a metaphor. The quantum world has generated laws that facilitate other activities in the humanities that are consonant with performative thinking, allowing us to understand the world in action, to grasp variability, anti-binarity, to approximate emergent phenomena, to identify simultaneity, diversity, fluidity, instability, inconsistency as variable features of the entangled world. Seeking a new language, the humanities are shedding binary thinking, along with the schemas and aspirations towards order, harmony, and systematizing principles, which have been deeply ingrained in Western culture for centuries. There’s been a rupture in our worldview something has fundamentally changed. By engaging with the concept of ‘entangled states’, the humanities are laying the foundations for new literary studies as an open discipline with its own kind of dramaturgy.

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