Arkadiusz Zychlinski
Arkadiusz Żychliński is Professor at the Institute of German Philology and member of Pracownia Pytań Granicznych (Boundary Questions Research Group) at Adam Mickiewicz University. He did his PhD on the poetics of translation of Heidegger’s philosophical writings (Unterwegs zu einem Denker, 2006) and his habilitation on the general theory of fiction (Laboratorium antropofikcji. Dociekania filologiczne; Laboratory of Anthropofiction. Philological Investigations, 2014). He is the author of three monographs, as well as a coeditor of six collections of critical texts (on Giorgio Agamben, Franz Kafka, Fernando Pessoa, Roberto Bolaño, Cervantes' Don Quixote, and Javier Marías). His main areas of interest are currently thematic comparative literature, cognitive literary theory, theory of fiction, and philosophical anthropology. He has also translated into Polish books by such authors as Peter Sloterdijk, Robert Walser, Peter von Matt, Uwe Timm, Alexander Kluge, and Lukas Bärfuss.
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Bloomsbury Circus, London et al. 2021.
“postmodern maladies”. Such a diagnose
becomes easier to comprehend if one considers an essential
change: while from Michel Foucalt’s perspective the
classical biopolitics comes down to biopower, exercised
over societies in order to instrumentalize them as “production
machines”, from Bernard Stiegler’s point of
view biopolitics has been replaced these days in Western
societies with psychopower, instrumentalizing communities
as “consuming machines”. The aim of my
paper is to reconstruct the main forms of the realization
and the consequences of that postmodern psychopower
and to outline ways to counteract it.
the shape of the novel on the other.
correspondence: when read through the prism of contemporary philosophy of mind, Pessoa's
phenomenon of heteronymity makes apparent the idea, suggested by Dennett, of understanding
the self as a centre of narrative gravity, or as competitive narrative centres of gravity. Viewed
from the standpoint of Dennett's polyphonic theory of the self, heteronymity (that is, multiple
personality disorder) appears as a reinforced, or boundary, form of the common phenomenon
of narrations, which form one's self by getting constituted around not a single but several
imaginary centres.
Bloomsbury Circus, London et al. 2021.
“postmodern maladies”. Such a diagnose
becomes easier to comprehend if one considers an essential
change: while from Michel Foucalt’s perspective the
classical biopolitics comes down to biopower, exercised
over societies in order to instrumentalize them as “production
machines”, from Bernard Stiegler’s point of
view biopolitics has been replaced these days in Western
societies with psychopower, instrumentalizing communities
as “consuming machines”. The aim of my
paper is to reconstruct the main forms of the realization
and the consequences of that postmodern psychopower
and to outline ways to counteract it.
the shape of the novel on the other.
correspondence: when read through the prism of contemporary philosophy of mind, Pessoa's
phenomenon of heteronymity makes apparent the idea, suggested by Dennett, of understanding
the self as a centre of narrative gravity, or as competitive narrative centres of gravity. Viewed
from the standpoint of Dennett's polyphonic theory of the self, heteronymity (that is, multiple
personality disorder) appears as a reinforced, or boundary, form of the common phenomenon
of narrations, which form one's self by getting constituted around not a single but several
imaginary centres.