Emancypacyjny projekt pierwszej polskiej awangardy
Emancipatory Project of the First Polish Avant-Garde

Summary/Abstract: The author of the paper examines the emancipatory discourses in the programmatic texts of the Polish Futurism, focusing on the issues of class and sex equalities, on postulates of art socialising, and on the role that language might perform in the project conceived in the aforementioned dimension. The article also touches the problem of the Polish Futurists’ attitude to past and tradition, convincing that their stance that aimed at burying tradition proved to have more in common with building the “new” than with destroying everything which belonged to past at all costs. In line with the thesis that Futurism met with favourable conditions in peripheral and semi-peripheral regions, “futurisation” was to have performed the function of modernisatory discourse. The paper’s line of reasoning is set in the terms rooted the philosophy by Jacques Rancière, by Michel Foucault, in Immanuel Wallerstein’s world-systems theory, and in settlements by female and male feminist criticism researchers.

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