Głód życia. Dwa oblicza pożerania w malarstwie René Magritte’a

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...

Cyfrowe (nie)kompetencje. Nowe technologie w służbie „ja”

The paper aims at examining the significance of new media for redefining meanings of social competences. As social actors witness new social situations in the technologically mediated world, they start seeking for altern...

Homeland and Resilience: Immunitas, Katechon, the Uncanny, and Trauma’s Displacement

The paper focuses on the category of resilience as it refers to the capacity of socio-political systems to withstand stress or to adapt to it. Invoking resilience enables a multifaceted reading of the TV series Homeland...

Technology of Control and Control of Technology in Brian K. Vaughan’s Ex Machina

In the classic era of American comics, the overwhelming majority of superhero stories focused on the straightforward struggle between good and evil, with superheroes embodying the positive values such as justice, order,...