Perspektywy peryferyjnej historii i teorii kultury
Perspectives on Peripheral History and Culture Theory

Summary/Abstract: Departing from the analysis of the relationship between the birth of the subject of race andthe development of capitalism (Mbembe), Sajewska examines the status of blackness insemi-peripheral countries, such as Poland, whose participation in the history of colonial expansion is negligible, as is its influence on the shape and prosperity of capitalism. In hertext she proposes to look at peripheral cultural practices as ways of producing andproblematizing knowledge. She focuses her attention on Artur Żmijewski's film Glimpse,which was first presented at documenta 14 in Athens in 2017, as a result of the artist'smonth-long trip with his camera to areas affected by repressive refugee policy. In herhistorical-cultural analysis of the film, Sajewska shows the position of the artist as a subjectrepresenting "peripheral modernity" (Pratt), who on the margins of the European center - inrefugee camps - once again performs the racist scenes that underpin the idea of the center’smodernity. Reflecting on the provincial status of the discourses, on the ways in which theyare “travelling” in culture, on the localness of the archive and on the regional character ofthe concepts, she opens up perspectives on peripheral history and culture theory.

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