Nuta po nucie. Lokalność muzyki popularnej a miejska tożsamość

Popular music is an indispensable part of peoples’ lives, shaping not only their aesthetic sensitivity and providing entertainment, but it also has the potential to construct their identities. Often having a strictly loc...

Kto był pierwszym celebrytą? Zachodnia historiografia celebrytyzmu, stan na rok 2018

The article is an overview of historiography focused on celebritism that has been developing autonomously since the 1990s among the English-speaking scholars. Organised around the main question of ‘who was the first cele...

Securing Homes: Orphan Trains as a Way of Curing Ills of the Late 19th Century America

Rapid changes in American society at the late 19th century bred social ills which required solving with the use of all available resources of the era. One of the tools, developed by the Children’s Aid Society of New York...

Świadectwo afektu. Spotkania ludzi i sztucznej inteligencji w filmach Ex machina i Uncanny

The aim of this article is to identify characteristicsof presentation of artificial intelligence inthe films Ex Machina (2015) and Uncanny (2015),and the analysis of ideas about possible romanticrelationships between hum...

Miejsce folkloru w konstruowaniu współczesnego świata.