Od czułego narratora do etyki czułości. Posthumanistyczna krytyka antropocentryzmu w twórczości Olgi Tokarczuk i Patricii Piccinini
From Tender Narrator to Sensitive Ethics: Post‑humanist Critique of Anthropocentrism in Works of Olga Tokarczuk and Patricia Piccinini

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes selected threads of Olga Tokarczuk’s literary work and selected artworks of Patricia Piccinini as a post‑humanist critique of anthropocentrism. Its purpose is to show how art clarifies and helps us to understand a world in which boundaries between species are crossed, and binary divisions no longer apply. The art world is a space in which the subjectivity of post‑humanist hybrids infiltrates universal consciousness and breaks down the anthropocentric monolith of Western European culture. The article also refers to the post-humanist postulate of decentralization of the human subject, which Tokarczuk and Piccinini implement in their works. This postulate implies the need to adopt a new responsibility that man bears as a part of a larger, heterogeneous whole, as well as to develop post-humanist ethics. Referring to one of Tokarczuk’s essays, I propose to describe this new approach as sensitive ethics.

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