Antyliterackie, a więc literacke. O Nikiformach Edwarda Redlińskiego

Author(s): Marta Bukowiecka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2015

This article examines Edward Redliński’s prose volume Nikiforms, a literary work that consists of authentic non-literary texts written by citizens of the People’s Republic of Poland. Redliński described his experiment as a collection of literary ready-mades. Published in 1982, the book was misunderstood by critics of the time, who tried to judge it through traditional criteria of literariness. Redliński’s Nikiforms, however, call for a different interpretative approach – one that discerns literariness not within each single text but in the encounter of different texts, between them, in the idea behind their composition. The non-literary forms included in the collection perform a metaliterary function because collectively they pose questions about boundaries, roles, the form and building material of literariness. Redliński’s book is part of a distinct contemporary trend in Polish literature to highlight non-literary phenomena.

Книги 2014 г.

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 29/2014

Selected bibliography in the field of Bulgarian Studies published in the current year

Книги 2013 г.

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 27/2013

Selected bibliography in the field of Bulgarian Studies published in the current year

Периодика 2012–2013 г.

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 26/2013

Content of the main Bulgarian scientific journals for the current year in linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography, archeology and art studies.

Научни форуми

Author(s): Nikola Kazanski / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 26/2013

Образите на светите братя Кирил и Методий – идеологизация на миналото, изразена в нумизматиката

Author(s): Wojciech Józwiak / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 9/2014

The great work of the Solun Brothers – Saints Cyril and Methodius – undoubtedly played an important part in the creation of the national identity and national awareness for many Slavic nations. Considering importance of the Cyril and Methodius heritage, it seems surprising how little their images were used on national coinage – one of the most common and most important symbols of independent nations. The only countries that paid a tribute to Solun Brother’s legacy, while creating their national identity were Slovakia, Bulgaria and Macedonia; by placed them in certain cultural, political and ideological context on collector’s items as well as on everyday currency.

Жестът на скръстените пръсти според хирологията във френската живопис през ХVІІ–ХVІІІ век

Author(s): Temenuzhka Dimova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 9/2014

Hands language as a means of expression in rhetoric and fine arts, the rules of which were presented mainly by the Roman authors Cicero and Quintilian, continued to stir interest over the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and strongly influenced artists and their iconographic reference points. English physician and rhetorician John Bulwer (1606–1656) devoted a few of his significant works to studying of the human gesture system, offering over 120 chirograms (types) of particular meanings. Spanish mathematician Juan Caramuel (1606–1682) studied the rhetorical wealth of chirologia, defining it as a major means of human communication. Hand gestures with fingers locked together is traditionally deemed to be a Christian prayer gesture, where palms are pressed together with fingers straight pointing up. In fact, the locked together fingers, known as early as the Antiquity, unlike the prayer gesture that emerged as late as the late medieval period, designated something else: a moment of deep sadness and suffering reflecting the strong tension of the mind. French artist Georges de La Tour uses this gesture as a basis for reflection on the vanity of worldly goods. Thus the position of the hands played the role of both a plastic device and an iconographic symbol.

Дисертации

Author(s): Nikola Kazanski / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 24/2012

Defended PhD theses in Bulgaria in the field of linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography and art studies

Научни форуми

Author(s): Nikola Kazanski / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 24/2012

Data about scientific events in the field of the humanities in Bulgaria in 2012

Научна периодика 2011 г.

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 23/2011

Content of the main Bulgarian scientific journals for the current year in linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography, archaeology and art studies

Tyrania oka, pokora ucha? O potrzebie sound studies

Author(s): Dariusz Brzostek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 5/2015

This article presents contemporary sound studies by outlining its field of interest as well as its main problems and concepts. Brzostek contextualizes sound studies with discussions on media and collective memory, the dialectics of voice and power, as well as the reproduction of sound and cultural identity. This context also includes thematically and methodologically diverse studies on the media coverage of acoustic experience through electronic media (from ‘archaeological’ forms such as the Walkman or the Discman to such ‘futuristic’ forms as mobile phones and iPods), as well as studies on these media’s effect on the transformation of the acoustic environment. Brzostek presents works inspired by R. Murray Shafer’s acoustic ecology, which touch on sound in the public sphere, urban soundscapes marked by noise pollution, as well as the acoustic environments of lo-fi and hi-fi.

Coffitivity: dźwięk, praca kreatywna i posthegemonia

Author(s): Artur Szarecki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 5/2015

Sound presents a unique subject of study, functioning in culture not only as a conveyor of meaning, but also as a sensory and affective intensity. To perform a cultural analysis of acoustic phenomena, therefore, we must take into account both the semiotic/interpretive dimension of soundedness and its bodily/material dimension. Szarecki illustrates his approach with the example of the internet site Coffitivity, which supports creative thinking by reproducing the ambient noise of a cafe. Szarecki draws on the theoretical tools of sound studies and of posthegemonic political theory to show how by arranging and controlling the sound environment Coffitivity broadens the possibilities – in time and space – of performing creative work, thus turning such work into an omnipresent component of everyday life.

Dźwięki natury a sztuka dźwięku. O rozumieniu reprezentacji w fonografii

Author(s): Justyna Tuszyńska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 5/2015

Tuszyńska confronts two seemingly distant notions, namely representation as an aesthetic category, and one type of phonography, namely musique concrète and the technology of open-air recording that goes with it. Thus she highlights a question that has been overlooked by theorists of representation as well as by musicologists. By confronting Michał Paweł Markowski’s models of representation with Pierre Schaeffer’s theory of musique concrète, Tuscyńska points to problems in representation that do not appear when we apply this concept to other artistic forms. This problem provides an impetus to examine musique concrète from a non-musicological perspective.

W kulturze dźwięku. Słuchanie literatury

Author(s): Andrzej Hejmej / Language(s): Polish Issue: 5/2015

Hejmej reflects on two fundamental questions: the first relates to sound (including voice) and the soundscape as a phenomenon that influences contemporary literature and its functioning in today’s media-dominated society; the second question, which builds on the first, explores the prospects of contemporary literary scholarship drawing on the anthropology of sound. Hejmej traces various scholars’ recent work in sound studies to highlight aural perception – ‘listening to culture,’ which leads him to argue for a new anthropology of the audiovisual – one that would build on analyses of both visual and acoustic space. Thus he analyses the new situation of a literature that, in today’s media-dominated world, relates to acoustic and acousmatic experiences. He proposes to treat literature not merely in terms of the written word (as accepted in traditional literary scholarship) but voice and scriptorality.

Doświadczenie muzyki, doświadczenie w muzyce. Refleksje na podstawie książki Przeciw muzykologii niewrażliwej Macieja Jabłońskiego

Author(s): Iwona Sowińska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 5/2015

Review: Maciej Jabłoński, Przeciw muzykologii niewrażliwej [Against Insensitive Musicology], Wydawnictwo Nauka i Innowacje, Poznań 2014.

The sersera of the guembri: anthropological approach to the device in the context of Gnawa diasporas in Brussels and Morocco

Author(s): Martina Hanáková,Itzana Dobbelaere,Hélène Sechehaye / Language(s): English Issue: 03 (30)/2016

In Gnawa music, the three-stringed lute called guembri plays a central role. According to Sum (2012, p. 52), “the guembri attracts the mluk (supernatural entities summoned in gnawa ceremonies) by sounding their musical identities, effectively sounding their names (...), (as well as) calling on the adept (...). Upon arrival of the spirit, the guembri, as the adept, becomes possessed.” The guembri is equipped with a detachable idiophone consisting of metal loops or rings fixed around the edges of a metal sheet, inserted into the neck. This device, called the sersera, is mostly audible during solo moments. It has been often noticed, or briefly described (Baldassarre 1999), but never analyzed in detail. However, it seems important for us to include the sersera in the analysis of the status, meaning and roles of the guembri timbre. Taking it into consideration will provide a new approach leading to better understanding of many facets of the instrument, including its cultural value. The sersera was used before and it is still made and carried by musicians, but nowadays it is barely employed either in Morocco or in Belgium. Through confrontation of the acoustical analysis and the information found in literature with the musicians’ experience, this paper tries to find the reasons of this obsolescence.

Czarny scenariusz. Strategie obrazowania potransformacyjnego Górnego Śląska w Sercu z węgla i Benku

Author(s): Alicja Kosterska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6/2015

Based on an analysis of pop cultural representations – the reality television show Serce z węgla [Heart of Coal, 2001] and the feature film Benek [Benek, 2007] – Kosterka examines the visualization of post-transformation Upper Silesia in 21st-century Polish film. She draws on psychoanalysis to explore why Upper Silesia has become attractive especially to those directors who aim to highlight the negative consequences of the socio-economic transformations after 1989: poverty, unemployment, frustration and a lack of perspective. The aim of this article is to draw readers’ attention to the fact that in 21st-century representations, Upper Silesia is mostly understood, visualized and spoken about as a space of ‘wilful exclusion,’ which has helped solidify the post-transformation status quo.

Музикантът (закир/Имам Джафер) в културата на алевиите и бекташите от Кърджалийско

Author(s): Rumyana Margaritova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2016

The paper concentrates itself on the figure of the Alevi-Bektashi musician (zakir, Imam Jafer) in Kardzhali region, who has at the same time religious, social, and artistic roles in society. Because of his characteristics, this figure could be categorized as an epic musician. His non-professional, but specialized activity is presented through the insiders‘ views on the specifics, educational manners, musicians’ quality assessment and their differences in performing styles. A young Bektashi musician from the region, whose biography and performing manner are marked by the complex interaction between his great talent and strong religious feelings is also portrayed in the paper. The interaction itself determines his complicated path as a musician and as a member of a community of heterodox Muslims.

Powrót terrorystki. Przypadek Brigitte Mohnhaupt

Author(s): Beata Łazarz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2016

This article aims to analyse works from the series ‘Sympathy for the Devil?/The Wretched of the Earth’ (2008-2011) by the British artist Esiri Erheriene-Essi. The central figure is Brigitte Mohnhaupt, the German terrorist responsible for the most brutal attacks perpetrated by the Red Army Faction (RAF). Łazarz draws on psychoanalytical tools, especially ones based on the works of on Sigmund Freud and Hanna Segal. Her analysis suggests that the creation of Mohnhaupt’s portrait allowed the artist to engage in a sort of public autotherapy that made it possible to confront herself with her own emotions relating to terrorism, to become aware of ambivalence and to become empathic towards the protagonist. Her audience can participate in this experience, both consciously and unconsciously.

Naturalna technika: swarming i komunikacja międzygatunkowa

Author(s): Ekaterina Nikitina / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2015

The article is devoted to the phenomenon of swarming and its expression in modern technologies and art. The main focus of this work is a philosophical comprehension and interpretation of the performance “Mind-Controlled Cyborgroach” created by the Moscow art-group “18 Apples.” The author discusses the phenomenon of the uncanny as a manifestation of entomophobia and technophobia, and she explores the ontological questions of human and animal being and compares categories of “natural” and “human” technics. The article also focuses on the problem of the Other in the context of the basic tasks of bioethics.