Nastroić się na teren: między opowieścią kairotyczną a ognostyczną
Tune in to the terrain: between kairotic and ognostic storytelling

Summary/Abstract: The article is a preliminary recognition of the assumptions of the field humanities, based on the analysis of two autoethnographies by Olga Tokarczuk: Ognozja (from the volume of essays „The Tender Narrator”) and Kairos (from the novel Bieguni). Recognizing the humanistic need of „being in the field” as complementary cognitive, kairotic and ognostic processes, the author tries to contrast other uses of these terms – to describe a climate catastrophe. Concerning expeditions to the ends of the world on the one hand, and towards the sources of humanity on the other, kai- rotic and ognostic stories turn out to be two fundamental activities that the humanities undertake in the field – sudden intuitive recognition and long, experience-based, time-consuming recogni- tion. Since in both cases it is recognition to achieve a certain level of emotion, and not to under- take specific research activities (like writing a text), the article talks about „tuning to the terrain”. Contemporary exploration processes are explained in it with the use of the now-disused term „geognosia”, which was used in the geology of the 18th and 19th centuries.

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