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“I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window”: The Hermeneutical Aesthetics of (Be)longing
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)The article addresses the nuanced but also profoundly enticing and challenging reality of belonging evoked in painting. I examine three artworks by artists of different times and styles—John Everett Millais, Johannes ... -
Nine Billion Branches: A Digital Poem by Jason Nelson—the Home of Objects
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)In his digital poem Nine Billion Branches, Jason Nelson explores various modes of belonging, which could be realized multifacetedly on corporeal, social, political, aesthetic and ecological levels. These locations range ... -
International Language Poetry: Radical Poetics in Charles Bernstein and Andrzej Sosnowski
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)The article discusses two linguistic poetry projects—that of the American poet Charles Bernstein and that of the Polish poet Andrzej Sosnowski. The main focus is on those poems by both poets which draw inspiration from the ... -
A Study of Transgressed Boundaries in The Gate to Women’s Country by Sheri S. Tepper
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)This paper endeavours to delineate the gender dynamics and ethical quandaries arising from the repercussions of war and the decisions undertaken to preserve societal norms, as depicted in the 1988 science-fiction novel ... -
Filling the Gaps in Broken Memory while Renewing the Cityscape: Navigating Belonging in Orhan Pamuk’s The Red-Haired Woman
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)The Red-Haired Woman, one of Orhan Pamuk’s post-Nobel novels, is a concise, fable-like narrative that delves into the complexities of father-son conflicts. The novel parallels the journey of the protagonist, Cem, with the ... -
“If I Could but See a Day of it”: On the Aesthetic Potential for Belonging and Action
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)This essay argues that the potential freedom revealed within aesthetic experiences of beauty can encourage a utopian form of belonging that could help materially realize this potential. Drawing upon Immanuel Kant and ... -
Radiant Futures: Utopian Art as a Phenomenology of Home-Seeking
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)This essay examines the imaginative potential of utopian art. Utopian art is more than a representation of a possible future, it calls upon our imaginations to pull us into the act of home-coming itself. Following Heidegger, ... -
Back in the Old Country: Homecoming and Belonging in Leonard Kniffel’s A Polish Son in the Motherland: An American’s Journey Home and Kapka Kassabova’s To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)Homecoming travel narratives are typically written by first-wave immigrants, their children, or grandchildren. Usually, homecoming books are accounts of emotionally charged travels that oscillate between nostalgia and ... -
Silent Voices: Dwelling with our Specters through Palimpsesto (2017), by Doris Salcedo
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)A palimpsest is a writing erased and replaced by another. Sometimes, perhaps all too often, our lives become incarnated palimpsests thanks to the prevailing biopolitics, which refers not only to the government of the living, ... -
Dwelling in the Urban Liminal: A Phenomenological Consideration of Saul Leiter’s Street Photography
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)In this essay, I present a phenomenological exploration of the “urban liminal” in the context of Saul Leiter’s street photography. In gauging the possibilities of dwelling in the urban liminal, this essay brings into ... -
Belonging and Longing: The Question of the Subject in Renaud Barbaras and Jean-Luc Marion
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)The philosophy of Renaud Barbaras and Jean-Luc Marion departs from the transcendental role of the subject. No longer is the subject regarded as its own foundation, nor does it own or constitute its objects. Instead, it ... -
The Challenge and Gift of Being-in-the-World: The Hermeneutics of Dwelling and (Be)longing
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The Meaning of Animals in the First Farm Revolts: From Kostomarov’s Ukraine to Reymont’s Poland at the Turn of the 20th Century
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)In 1945, George Orwell published Animal Farm, a critique of Cold War totalitarianism wherein animals acquire human speech, walk on two legs, and ultimately oppress themselves once gaining power. Its concern for the lived ... -
The Regional Impersonal as a Mode of Dwelling: Structures of Embodiment in David Jones’s The Anathémata and Basil Bunting’s Briggflatts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)The discussion of dwelling in this article focuses on T. S. Eliot’s controversial axiom of poetic impersonality as articulated in The Sacred Wood (1920) and practiced in The Waste Land (1922), and on how this axiom is ... -
The Disnarrated and Denarrated in Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)Drawing on the notions of “disnarration” (telling what did/does not occur) and “denarration” (cancelling or negating what has occurred) as theorized by, respectively, Gerald Prince and Brian Richardson, this paper examines ... -
Unearthly Nature: The Strangeness of Arbospaces in Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)Commonly acknowledged as one of Thomas Hardy’s most environmentally-conscious literary accomplishments, The Woodlanders (1887) provides fertile ground for a stimulating and topical ecocritical debate. The intricate correlation ... -
Voices of the Dead: Robert Eggers’s The Lighthouse and the Horror Genre
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)This article examines the 2019 film The Lighthouse, directed by Robert Eggers, which follows the descent into madness of two 19th-century lighthouse keepers as they become stranded on a desolate New England island and ... -
Dwelling and Departure: Beginning Disputes between Arendt and Heidegger
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)In “Letter on Humanism,” Martin Heidegger juxtaposes the notion of homelessness (Heimlosigkeit) with home-coming (Heimholung), i.e. the reawakening to our original relationship to Being. This focus on dwelling in Being ... -
Building Liveable Futures: Dwelling as Collaborative Survival After Climate Change
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)Taking a cue from Tim Ingold’s post-humanist reflection on building and dwelling as more-than-human practices, the article aims to revisit dwelling as a strategy of “collaborative survival” (Tsing) in the context of the ... -
From Kitsch and Carnivalesque to Cultural Appropriations: Liminal Representations of Post-Apartheid White Identity in Die Antwoord’s Music Videos
Dobrogoszcz, Tomasz
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)
Through their multi-dimensional artistic performances—manifesting in music, lyrics and videos—the South African rap-rave hip-hop duo Die Antwoord expresses the ethos of “Zef,” a white working-class Afrikaner post-apartheid ...