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Odblokować alternatywną przyszłość. Performatywna poezja Tomasza Bąka
Unblocking the Alternative Future: Tomasz Bąk’s Performative Poetry

Author(s): Michał Trusewicz
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Economy, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: humor; criticism of ideology; post-Fordist capitalism; performance; poetry of involvement

Summary/Abstract: This article offers an analysis of Tomasz Bąk’s poetry from the perspective of the possibility of reclaiming future-oriented imagination. This poetry provides a critique of post-Fordist capitalism and simultaneously explores the realm of utopian thinking. The article ponders the way in which poetry can respond to the crisis of the imagination caused by the paralysis of Mark Fisher’s capitalist realism. Bąk’s poem Bailout is a firm declaration of the poet’s belief in a positive future as a viable alternative to the process of the erasure of futurity, which is an essential paradigm of semiocapitalism and post-Fordism.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 2 (18)
  • Page Range: 1-22
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Polish