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O powinowactwie obrazu i mitu w kontekście zwrotu ikonicznego

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Kwiatkowska E.

Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia

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2012

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tom 7

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nr 3

139-163

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The article discuses the issue of the relation between myth and image from the perspective of various trends in modern humanities which are responsible to the socalled iconic turn. It is based on the general claim that an image is not a text, therefore an analysis of this relationship must consider topics characteristic of the problems of imagery. Philosophical background for the analysis is based upon two traditions, the one of Cassirer’, the other of Bachelard’s. The paper refers also to contemporary writings in anthropology of image, Bildwissenschaft and other ideas related to the iconic turn. It also discusses the difference between “image” and “picture”; the anthropological impact of images; the comparison between mythmagical images and the so-called “new” images, as well as the issue of myth-derived forms. It also deals with the characteristics of contemporary myth-derived image forms and their particular status in iconosphere.

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O naturze, kulturze, granicy i potencjale kategorii habitusu

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Kwiatkowska E.

Prace Kulturoznawcze

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2012

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tom 14

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nr 1

35-52

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The assumption inscribed in the phrase “nature is the border of culture” provokes a significant methodological question: Is it possible in a single research procedure to cross or at least step upon this border? Do humanities have sufficient cognitive tools to give account of that borderline area between nature and culture, which science has either tried to negate by some forms of reductionism or cut out methodologically? Our reflection in this matter may focus on the concept of habitus. The limits of its applicability to the nature-culture relationship is the main issue discussed in this article. The perspective of those limits is associated with the fact that the post-humanistic paradigm has shown some indications for re-interpreting the concept in such a way as to make it describe the relations between hybrid-like nature-cultures. The article relates to the conceptualisation of the boundary between nature and culture, the concept of habitus as proposed by Pierre Bourdieu and interpretation of habitus inspired by the Actor-Network Theory (ANT). In the light of the latter, the social dimension applies equally to humans and non-humans; the concept of habitus may, therefore, define the relations between factors of different, as so far believed, ontic statuses and may involve ideo-, psycho-, techno- and biomorphisms. The inertial aspect of habitus as a system of permanent dispositions may be described using the concept of intermediary, whereas the creative one with the concept of mediator. In terms of sociology of relations, the creative aspect of habitus would belong to sources of uncertainty. In the anti-reductionist perspective and in Bruno Latour’s anti-essentialist concept, habitus goes beyond its anthropological content in line with the post-humanist ANT logic and, released from its sociological constraints, demonstrates its non-reductionist potential.

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Obraz mityczny jako obraz kulturowy

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Kwiatkowska E.

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tom 46

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nr 3

173–185

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The article presents the idea of the active image in culture connected with the approach to image cultures as reservoirs and ways of constructing collective imagination spheres. This view makes it possible to present the issue of mythical image as a particular kind of cultural image. The mythical image in the context of the traditions of Warburg and Benjamin may be recognised thanks to its actions in culture characteristic of mythical expressions. The second part of the article deals with the premises of the iconological use of Walter Benjamin’s reflections in the context of his concept of the myth and dialectical image

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O badaniu mitu w kontekście zwrotu ikonicznego

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Kwiatkowska E.

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This article concerns the issue exploring myth in the context of the iconic turn. Iconic turn, opposed to formulating images as texts, signs or illustrations, treats both images and imagery as categories of cultural phenomena analysis. Attributing theory-cognitive status to images, the article explores the relation between cognition, imagination, image and myth. Considering the differentia specifica of mythical thinking – imagery, we can say that the assumptions of iconic turn are at the very heart of myth knowledge issues, especially the issues of myth and mythopoiesis. They also reach the problems of separating basic mythical images as cultural images, image acts as constituting myths and the relation between the imagery and textuality of myth.

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O sposobach kultywowania mitologii mocnych i osłabionych

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Kwiatkowska E.

Prace Kulturoznawcze

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2011

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tom 12

147-171

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The article is devoted to the difference between the ways of cultivating mythologies referred to here as “strong” as well as “weakened” mythologies characteristic of modern culture. The sources of this “weakening” may be found in the secularisation process, conceptualised in a variety of ways. In the present author’s approach, the ways of cultivating “strong” and “weakened” mythologies do not constitute a historical sequence — as could be concluded from a simplified secularisation thesis — but, rather, two extremes of a certain continuum. The author analyses the models of cultivating mythologies that can be placed within this continuum; worthy of note among them are: participation, mimesis of participation and mimesis of trace. What is also important in the present reflection is a re-interpretation of the notion of participation mystique in the spirit of the concept of cultural practices.

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N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase urine activity as a marker of early proximal tubule damage and a predictor of the long-term function of the transplanted kidneys

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Kwiatkowska E. , Domański L. , Bober J. , Kłoda K. , Safranow K. , Szymańska-Pasternak J. , Romanowski M. , Sulecka A. , Pawlik A. , Ciechanowski K.

Acta Biochimica Polonica

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2014

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tom 61

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nr 2

275-280

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Introduction: Ischaemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) is a factor leading to the damages of the transplanted kidney, what affects mainly the proximal tubules. Early monitoring of tubule damage can be an efficient tool to predict the allograft dysfunction. Present in proximal tubules, N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase (NAG) is a lysosomal enzyme whose excretion rises as a result of IRI or acute rejection. The aim of this study was to monitor the NAG urine activity to evaluate the early proximal tubule damage, and to try to predict the long-term function of the transplanted kidney. Material and methods: The study enrolled 87 Caucasian renal transplant recipients (61.7% males, 38.3% females, mean age 45.56±14.34 years). Urine samples were collected for NAG and creatinine analysis on the 1st day after transplantation, and then in the 3rd and 12th month. Protocol biopsies were performed in the 3rd and 12th month. Results: A significant positive correlation between NAG urine activity in the 3rd month after transplantation and creatinine concentration on the 14th (p=0.004) and 30th day (p=0.05), in the 3rd month (p=0.009) and after the 1st (p=0.005) and 2nd year (p=0.003) was observed. A statistically significantly higher urinary NAG activity in samples collected in the first 3 days and in the 3rd month after transplantation among patients with DGF (p=0.006 and p=0.03 respectively) was found. There was a significant positive correlation between NAG urine activity in the 3rd month and the grade of tubular atrophy in specimens collected in the 3rd (p=0.03) and 12th (p=0.04) month. Conclusions: Monitoring of NAG urine activity is useful in the evaluation of early proximal tubule damage and predicting the long-term function of the transplanted kidneys.