Awersja
Aversion

Summary/Abstract: The text is a short sketch, a working draft, discussing the state of literacy, or rather reading tendencies in Poland. According to the author, the tendency to read is disappearing, becoming part of a continuum in an educational tradition that has undergone a final break as a result of the rapid transformation of that which is actual and real into that which is merely virtual. Bauman’s “liquid” times have been a plague to books and reading. We have put aside our books, stopped treating reading as an essential existential act. We have left the library for other churches (consumption, text messaging, acronyms), fallen victim to a cult of the “external”. “Aversion” presents a summing up of this sad state.

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