selected articles
EROGENOUS ZONES OF POP CULTURE
Pop culture has become a sphere of struggle of different forces. Together with the collapse of repressive culture, it has also become an important advocate of new values and norms. However, the increasing in time moral conformism caused new difficulties to, inseparably connected to culture, eroticism. Since it did not trigger the same reactions as in the past, it had to be more and more provocative and brazen. This led to a split between eroticism presented in the public, and eroticism hidden in the private sphere. The consequences are easily noticeable: deprived of its emotional element self-reflective eroticism, ideal, often computer-aided bodies – all this contributes to the hyper-reality that surrounds us
AND THIS IS THAT MANIPULATION
A real choice begins with three possibilities. If you have just one possibility you are a fundamentalist, if you have two there is a conflict in you – this or that. The real freedom starts at three. Or take this: if one has learned something, the other is also capable of learning it. Nice? But many people say it is impossible. Or the things like: a more flexible individual becomes a leader. Or: human deeds come from positive intentions. Take for example a thief, a bandit. From his point of view, does he have positive intentions? Ourselves considered, we always have good intentions. We take the best possibility there is for us. Of course, for others it is not necessarily a good thing. People doing the darkest deeds – there always lies some positive intention at the bottom. A statement: there is no failure, only feedback. In NLP we say: a mistake is just a piece of information, if you want to experience something, you have to take a risk. Usual cuts and bruises may appear but you get your information.
press review
…YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HEART HERE
The editorial team of “Więź” magazine in its April issue (4/2006) undertook a risky task of asking a question whether one can like Warsaw. A post-war song gives a positive answer, however, nowadays the unambiguous appraisal is being questioned. It is a result of an individual, rather than collective, experience of the capital city dwellers. What do the magazine guests: writers, historians, architects, anthropologists and a theologian, invited to share their thoughts about Warsaw have in common apart from their place of abode? They are aware that one cannot free oneself from the legacy of the city and they find it necessary to take a stand on its alleged boorishness, decline of moral standards, eclecticism and fragmentary nature – an exceptionally trendy epithet that supposedly reflects the nature of Warsaw in the best way.