They say that only The Last of Us It turned out to be a "real movie", a series based on the game. Film, a sequence of a story, images and music, is the form most appropriate to our communication needs, to instinctively talk about what we are a little afraid of. Uncle G. instantly suggests that "92% of users liked this series or TV show". Wow, wow! Although infected Cordyceps Clickers and (I think) purchlaks make some different sounds. And they fulfill their "communication need" better than people. Faster, simpler, more direct. If communication is identified with the continuous similarity of its environment to itself, then not only fantastic mushrooms, but ordinary yogurt and the community of kind, hardworking bacteria living in it, fermenting what possible, it is better communicated than
We need it very much, sometimes it seems manially. For this need, both ludic rituals and methodological, impeccable scientific statistics are founded. Since we all need it, it must be something to be found anywhere in the world. Something we have with us. Anthropologists have written more books on blood rituals, on the distinction between pure and impure, blue and rude blood than we would like to read. Our imagination attributes the tendency to self-harm to other species, such as a pelican from late antique and medieval bestiaries, feeding its chicks with blood from its own breast. Blood is a substance used for sublimation, but for unclear reasons the desired sublimation transformation must usually be preceded by something quite the opposite, something physiological and cruel. Only such a
Adolf Loos was the owner all his life. Among other things, he had very clear, overbearing views. He also had a dubious gift for attracting the city's attention. In his case, the attention of the whole of Vienna, who was emotional about the rumors about the architect. It is enough to reach for one of his often written and published texts, even from the most famous work: Ornament And with Brodnia (A. Loos, Ornament and crime , trans. A. Stępnikowska-Berns, 2015, Tarnów), to find out about it. You can start with Germanic remarks about American military superiority Plumber (Plumbing) over French Installateur. We have streets in Łódź, where the problem of plumbing systems is still as swolent as in Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century. The house of Hilary Majewski, the official architect
Although it sounds nice to say that one hundred and twenty-three countries recognise the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Russia stopped by decree in 2016. The powerful rarely accept restrictions on their freedom of action. At the time of the vote in Rome in 1998 on the establishment of this court, the United States, Israel, China, Iraq and Iran, Libya and Yemen, among others, voted against it. At the time, it seemed that it would be yet another court to prosecute crimes committed on the fringes of Western culture. The tribunal began in 2002, in the era of the “war on terror”, still far from the idea of a major war in Europe. At a time when Jean Baudrillard argued that “the Gulf War did not happen” and we only saw a series of flares on screens, somewhere far
The matter is not simple. Although it sounds nice when it is mentioned that one hundred and twenty-three countries recognize the jurisdiction of the Criminal Court in The Hague. Russia stopped by decree issued in 2016. The strong rarely agree to limit their freedom of action. During the vote in Rome in 1998, the establishment of this court was voted against, among others. USA, Israel, China, also Iraq and Iran, Libya and Yemen. At that time, it seemed to be another court prosecuting crimes committed on the far outskirts of Western culture. The Tribunal began operating in 2002, in the era of the "fight against terrorism", still very far from imagining a big war in Europe. At a time when Jean Baudrillard argued that "There was no Gulf War", and we were only watching a series of flashes on
We do not know to what extent and whether the technological development and the direction of civilization repeat the choices made by evolution. We have left the nineteenth-century belief that evolution is only the sum of random choices, although its teleology also does not fit in our heads. The dominant "strategy" (since there is no ultimate goal, it is impossible to talk about a strategy Sensu stricto ) is to increase the ability to produce energy. Energy resources, nuclear fusion, renewable sources, all the same to guarantee more energy. The history of aesthetics provides examples that the attitude towards continuously increasing energy resources is a tendency with at least a thousand years of tradition. Flaming Gothic, mannerism, baroque, eclecticism of the end of the nineteenth
The swallow doesn't change much, but even those who do not leave the office, do not leave the highway, do not leave the subway and the suburban queue, those sewn on amen in the bios setup within two weeks are surprised They will notice that they noticed A bird not seen for a long time. Crane, stork, swallow, starling, swing, wolfhog. Something that flies overhead and doesn't scare with sound. Such a surprise will perfectly complement our daily cognitive deficit of contact with the natural environment. Until several thousand years ago, everyone moved from north to south twice a year for moving herds. For at least ten thousand years, more and more of us have been living without such wanderings. And yet our perceptual apparatus still has a network of receptors to revive which one bird with a
Just What is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing? A small, highly chaotic collage by Richard Hamilton from 1956 turns out to be one of the icons after seven decades Revealing What is and what does Western culture look like? In dozens of online places, you can read about all the possible configurations and constellations of details and details of this paper work today. Hamilton himself treated it carefully, making a new (modernized) version after over thirty years (in 1992) and of course increasing the confusion of tropes, motifs, references, symbols, etc. Why not replace the title "houses/apartments" with something bigger? Cities, for example. The title (is it true that it is immediately charmingly ironic?) Would then read: What actually makes today's cities so
Because the players’ hair was not black enough. Europe can spend weeks marvelling at Chinese rules in sport. But it should remember that it was—and remains—the source of many other, equally ‘obvious’ regulations governing behaviour. In the very heart of green England, the émigré philosopher Leszek Kołakowski, irritated by his neighbours’ comments, wrote a short, ironic—take note, islanders—treatise entitled ‘The General Theory of Not-Gardening’. (The English version was published in the Journal of the Anthropological Society in Oxford, vol. XV, no. 1; the author’s Polish translation, ‘Ogólna teoria nie-uprawiania ogrodów’, appeared in Zeszyty Literackie in Paris, no. 18, 1986.) Let us consider the source of the self-evident superiority of beliefs about the correct length of grass over
One of the few preserved pre-war (from 1937) avant-garde films, i.e. those that wanted to show the unnoticed obviousness is The adventure of a good man ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlaFGPiioPQ ) by Stefan and Franciszka Themerson. Stefan Kisielewski's music is worth a moment's attention. The plot backwards, about the consequences of a good-natured official walking backwards, exposes the motif of two people wearing a wardrobe with a mirror (yes, yes, Henryk Kluba and Jakub Goldberg dragging a wardrobe on the Baltic beach in Polanski's 1958 etude, it was already the "second season" of this symbolic transport service in the history of the film). Will we live to see the third season and the motif carrying something big and heavy like a wardrobe will fill the film frames and our heads? It
The economy will take any amount of educated engineers. In the face of such an air trumpet, such a whirlwind of immediate needs, the chance that some university on the momentum called poly-technical will fit in the programme a modest number of divagations that cannot be translated into a set of tasks/projects to be solved is minimal. We will drive at least until the end of the decade on autopilot programmed in the time of Ernst Kapp and slightly upgraded by Heidegger in A question about the technique. So it will be a traditional ride without holding back, because Kapp writing about the philosophy of technology at the end of the 19th century ( Grundlinien einer Philosophie der Technik. Z Ur Entstehungsgeschichte der Cultur aus neuen Gesichtspunkten, Braunschweig, 1877 ) could write that a
The Ministry of Education does not yet know why. But not only that is it not certain. He doesn't know if K-pop lessons will replace music only in uniform classes or in all. Stronger cultural integration with Korea after the decision to buy almost a thousand K2 tanks and about 300 K239 rocket launchers, forty-eight FA-50 jets and more than six hundred K9 howiters seems to be the Polish ration of the state, at least the rulers. Raison d'État (ratio status) It is undoubtedly a European term. There is certainly a Korean equivalent, but we know little about it, as much as can be explained in English. The government plans to spend $133 billion on the modernization of the army by 2035. Some more small ones to modernize the sealed dams and fences on the borders and we will already be "at home"
Valentine's Day, but right after: Please pay attention to the symbol E C N (Economical). In the counter of the intricate pattern on Wonderful love . The pattern was invented while waiting by Isore Isou, the imperative and charming leader of the Parisian letrists. It would seem that these cruelly avant-garde young men were not interested in anything but direct action (e.g. a mess for Easter 1950 in Notre Dame; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_Affair ) and drawing your own signs wherever possible. In the early 1960s, Isou began to more and more clearly exploit the sign power of sexuality, love, and feelings. And from the beginning of his Parisian career, he had quite specific beliefs about women (" Isou ou la mécanique des femmes" , Paris, 1949). The introduction of the symbol of
In the face of the surprising novelty, in the face of the scale of the disaster, for a moment? You forget. Of course, we forget the language, not so much "in the mouth" as in the head. Maybe it's good, but in these short moments let's not listen to good advice, let's look where we want to look, higher, deeper, sharper, through tears, involuntarily. Let's see ours. Maybe it will do something? According to many researchers of neural processes, the centres and cortical pathways responsible for responding to completely new situations unknown to the body are more developed in the right hemisphere of the brain, are more active during periods of rapid growth and also age faster (C. Chiron, I. Jambaque, R. Nabbout, R. Lounes, A. Sirota, O. Dulac, The right brain hemisphere is dominant in human
Everything sounds familiar, though Small-world Is also one of the specific terms describing the model of connections within the brain (Bassett D., Bullmore E., Small-world brain networks. Neuroscientist , 2006, Dec; 12(6):512-23. DOI: 10.1177/1073858406293182). These combinations largely allow us to behave that culture distinguishes as creation, creativity, optimal response to what is new in the environment. It is a structure that most likely determines the organisation of scattered information, the rhythm of its layering, where and how it falls on each other, the processes without which the whole body would react much less flexibly to changes. Instead of babbling in a gliated head, it's better to travel the map with our finger. Let's look for some geographically embedded, Small-town
Oh elephant, – writes Zofia. – It's not easy for me to live without you anymore. At present I live provisionally. I was on Freedom Square. He's starry, he releases himself Such long streets, very attractive, I got there a little - but too cold for long Wandering and I would prefer with you. Poor slave. It must stink terribly in the summer In Łódź. Now it is pleasantly exotic. Do you remember me? I kiss you Very much. Everyone has a husband and I don't. Zosia. For now, just after the war, Zofia Gutkowska - like her future husband - goes to Eibisch's studio at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts. He obtains discharge after the wedding, on June 30, 1949. Art education is complemented by stage studies with Karol Frycz, completed with a diploma on January 5, 1953. In the 1950s, practicing a
The end of the year brings a high wave of summaries, discussions about memorable events in the past 2022. The discussions will be - taking into account the electoral calendar - quite sharp. With an emphasis on: enough. Unnoticeably, without any visible waves, the generally accepted way of discussing or arguing is changing. The emotional temperature is still as high, but the range of opinions that can be expressed is less, or perhaps more normalized. Normalization allows you to return to the initial question about connecting to the network, about "networking" such discussions. It is rarely carried out in a completely local way, without a trace of other users of social media networks. And these, as we know, have clearly defined limits to freedom of expression. Even your text editor will be
It was quite a feminine Christmas. The guys could play Józef, and he (as we know from medieval scenes) at a critical moment was sent by the Girl for a - useless - candle so that he would not disturb and panic. From a post-Christmas, everyday perspective, let's ask a question that is certainly of interest to the viewers of the best breakfast TVs on the veranda. Was the Blessed Virgin the prototype of WAGS? Yes, but not right away. Only when the spectacle of the manor, the spectacle full of cold glances dominated the surroundings. Somewhere at the dawn of modernity, the first such appear Dazzlingly perfect Images. Every smallest detail, like in a TV studio, is edited and supervised by a separate guardian angel. Everyone knows their place. Right wing Diptych Melun By Jean Fouquet painted by
Do you want to check the meaning of the word "winter"? The economic truth about winter was painted a long time ago by Bruegel. Three hunters, half a day of chasing in deep snow, a pack of thirteen dogs, one hunted fox. There is no madness. You have to wait out the winter, with the least possible losses. If someone has accumulated supplies, they can wait by playing Curling As in the background at Bruegel's. Latin Hiem(p)s , Tempus hemalis – Winter time Leads to simple and indiscutable phrases: Hiemo / χειμάζω - winter (also about the army). Winter is the time when, whether you like it or not, you move differently, more carefully, less. It is a treacherous time, although filled with clear, white light, delusioning that you can see everything clearly, as if on a snowy empty sheet of ice. But
Spring at your fingertips, with your own eyes, warm, green, calm. And the most difficult, let's wish each other, Damn it , honestly. Everything once... Bitcoin, or other cryptocurrencies currently mined "from nowhere", will not reign in the imagination for long Homo sapiens . The gold rush will not leave us, but as always we will discover better "areas", full of big nuggets. In this century, we will most likely see "watchcoins". A standardized measure of value in relation to the amount and length of attraction of other people's glances. This has been the valuation of media values for a long time. Even the largest nugget, as long as no one can see it, has a minimal impact on the environment. Just like hidden, inactive capital. Without "discovery", without the phase of disclosure, without
In a technologically crazed society all its elements should be accurately named and described. Paradise is an iconography of nakedness, a state of mutual likeness (rather ugly) that we do not want to remember. The nakedness: nuditas naturalis very quickly turned into nuditas criminalis in our empty heads. It is the same with cities. We like guidebooks that put cities in order by the number of stars. They route you directly to the greatest highlights. Cities try to get a good position in city rankings because it affects their media image, and this can push the city to the top of the spotlight. Apparently, there are more and less intelligent cities. There are many ratings specifying the level of intelligence of cities. The Smart City slogan is a desirable label. Does the famous city of
If memes can be burned in the oven! There would be no need to build nuclear freaks. Sovereign country from fence to fence without much effort we would warm up. The government itself would have managed to warm all those in need. And there would still be energy to melt into a speedway Carbon Print' Those swirling over the familiar area. The number of small creatures crouched close to white (quite naked!) The neck is a lot in the Euro-Atlantic imagination. Determining whether the breast sucks more often on the right or on the left may be of current political importance. In the long run, it's all the same, it's just a nightmare. The most famous physics of such a tormenting mara was painted (in several versions) by Johann Heinrich Füssli. And unexpectedly, against the background of a strong
The national colours: greys, drizzle and rain. But tomorrow—tomorrow! Once again, enthusiastic crowds will welcome Grandpa at the station. The drizzle is discouraging, but one need only increase the resolution slightly and the comic-book convention of clear outlines and simple stories will disintegrate into a multiverse of lines, contours and fragments that do not fit together at all, scattered like the dots of a halftone that can add colour to a frame, but cannot construct it. Nonsense! A drizzle of details. We want to—and will— live happily along in one comic book or another. Without one, both we and our autonomous cars and equally autonomous partners will lose our way. Let us at least try to ensure that everyone can move as they wish. On the public roads of the metropolises of
The poster from 1920 by Alexei Radakov (Alexei Alexandrovich Radakov) is one of the most frequently reproduced graphics showing the specific features of Russian art from the Bolshevik Revolution. The desire to appeal to the tradition of folk aesthetics of woodcut (lubok/lubóк), contrasting colour combinations, simplification of the situation. And above all, strength Fate. What's in reality Russian mira (Russian world) Makes you repeat spontaneously and with faith: Wpieriod! Uraa! If this impersonal, inconceivable and omnipotent push forward does not fail in Russia, the paraphrases and pastiches of Radakov's poster can become an icon of Russian culture of the 1920s as well as the 21st century. Regardless of whether the "Russians" are ethnically Buryats, Kalmyks, Tuvans, Mordvins, Tatars
