Browsing by Subject "modernity"

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Hidden resources? Households' strategies for maintaining control over food: between continuity and discontinuity
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2018) Bachórz, Agata
This paper deals with internal household strategies for regaining control over quality, safety and the meaning of food, as applied by people in Poland. Using material gathered by interviewing representatives of two generations, the paper analyses the bottom-up, scattered and intra-family solutions woven into the structure of everyday life. Although alternative food networks and food activism are emerging nowadays as an important area of criticism towards contemporary food production and supply, the paper goes back to the choices made within the mainstream food system. Although the interviewees could be classified as middle-class and for this reason are expected to eagerly adapt to new lifestyle patterns, the research material allows one to focus not only on the novelty in people’s culinary choices, but above all – on the continuity. Forms of domestic cooking and buying provisions for the household – as embodied skills based on physical work and time available – are interpreted in the light of contemporary food distrust. The similarities between late modern and traditional mechanisms of maintaining trust are analysed, showing how different layers overlap, shaping a mix of traditional and modern forms.
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Motyw Ahaswera w twórczości Aleksandra Wata. Od figury zbiorowości do znaku jednostkowości
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2021) Król, Karolina
The article analyses the Wandering Jew theme in literary works of Aleksander Wat. The author focuses on those texts which have been neglected by researchers analysing this theme. An important part of article is the analysis of Wat's notebooks and letters to his wife. The Wandering Jew theme in literary works of Aleksander Wat transforms from the figure of collectivity into the figure of individual fate. Moreover, Wat interprets Ahaswer by means of the writer’s own life. Ahaswer in later works of Aleksander Wat begins to show a consciousness of gulit and has a need to make atonement. An attempt of interpreting Ahaswer's fate as a modernistic figure can be made on the basis of chronologically last Wat’s texts pondering on the life of the Wandering Jew.
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Pozytywizm, rewolucja przemysłowa i urbanizm - utopia i rzeczywistość w powieści »Les cinq cents millions de la Bégum« (500 milionów Begumy) Juliusza Verne'a
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2009) Valsecchi, Daniel H.
The aim of this article is to analyze negative conseąuences (social, political, psychological and so forth) of utopian projects, which crippled society and people by negation of reality and at the same time oblige them to accept these plans. In order to do this we analyze characteristics of two constructions which are thoroughly depicted by Jules Verne: an Arms Fabric (Stahlstadf) and a city which was mathematically built (France Filie). Furthermore there are reflections about positivism - i.e. the ground of these projects.