Liberackość nasza współczesna. Od teorii liberackiej do zwrotu interfejsologicznego w literaturoznawstwie
Our Contemporary Liberariness. From Liberary Theory to Interfaciological Turn in Literary Studies

Summary/Abstract: As its point of departure the article takes the intensifying tendency of contemporary art to conjoin the so-called classical literacy with the refreshing capabilities provided by the new media. It is argued that both new media works and the classical literary ones adapted to them—along with new types of books such as audiobooks or e-books, and the new theories recognising their difference—result in a paradigm shift due to which the very category of medium might seem obsolete. Consequently, the article proposes to withdraw from it and privilege the interface instead. It is through this revitalising trope that material traits of liberary works may be affirmed in the way they influence the perceptive, temporal, spatial and sensory capacities of the “reader.” Following this observation, liberature may be regarded as the constitutive element of our epoch. Regardless of whether it is only a fashionable category or an actual break, liberature marks the importance of the material aspect of communication. This pioneering term in turn becomes the part of a greater set of phenomena constructing our already trans-medial everydayness.

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