28–29 October 2013 The Krakow Voivodeship Public Library Kraków, Poland 1 Rajska street (room 315) 2 Program 4 Keynote speakers 8 Conference participants 23 Chairpersons 24 Map 1 DAY 1: 28 October 2013 DAY 2: 29 October 2013 9.00 – 10.00 Registration GARIMA KALITA AND ELŻBIETA OKROY, 9.30 – 10.00 Coffee 13.45 – 16.45 Session 2: 16.45 – 17.00 Coffee break & coffee UDDIPANA KALITA, EWA OKROY, Literature and the Reading and The Pro- Toward a New Society – 10.00 – 12.45 Session 1: Constitution of Society 17.00 – 19.45 Session 3: 10.00 – 10.15 Opening cess of Subversion Beyond Language Writing and/against (chaired by KRZYSZTOF New Media – New and welcome Identity (chaired by WOLAŃSKI) Society? (chaired by Discussion 17.00 – 17.15 Coffee break MICHAŁ SOWIŃSKI) ANNA NACHER) 10.15 – 13.00 Session 1: Keynote lecture: Literature – Politics – Soci- 13.00 – 14.00 Lunch break 17.15 – 20.00 Session 3: Keynote lecture: PRZEMYSŁAW Keynote lecture: ety (chaired by JAN SOWA) Writers – Institutions – JENNIFER ASHTON, CZAPLIŃSKI, NICK MONTFORT, 14.00 – 17.00 Session 2: Market (chaired by Labor and the Lyric: Games in litera- Electronic Literature Keynote lecture: Against Sociologists ALICJA PALĘCKA) The Politics of Self- ture. The rules and and Other Forms WALTER BENN MICHAELS, (chaired by MARIA -Expression in Contem- rates of contem- of Popular Crea- The Beauty of a Social KOBIELSKA) Keynote lecture: porary American Poetry porary literary tive Computing Problem: Beyond Poststruc- GRZEGORZ JANKOWICZ, life in Poland turalism, Postmodernism Keynote lecture: Dubravka Ugrešić’s Discussion MACIEJ MARYL, and Even Postcommunism MICHAŁ PAWEŁ Socio-politcal View Discussion Sociology of Literature MARKOWSKI, upon Literature KAROLINA KRASUSKA, Goes Online: Concepts, Discussion Who Needs Sociology of Always Localize! Maria 14.45 – 15.00 Coffee break Problems, Methods Literature? Politics and Discussion Komornicka/Piotr HULYA BULUT, Literature reexamined Odmieniec Włast and KAMIL RUSIŁOWICZ, LIDIA GĄSOWSKA, ÖZGE SOYLU BOZDAĞ, MAGDALENA NOWICKA, Polish Femiminist/ Writing Poland as the Beyond fan fiction. The Transformation of Discussion Writers, Public Intellectu- Queer Criticism Other of Marxist Geo- Writing as a desire Sufism and Conservatism als and Entrepreneurs of graphical Materialism in the Turkish Literature: 15.00 – 15.15 Coffee break the Self: Economy of the JĘDRZEJ BURSZTA, Discussion Love and Dervish Gate Literary Public Sphere Against the Galactic PAWEŁ KACZMARSKI, PAWEŁ SZYPOWSKI, Suburbia. American The Common Reader EMILIA ALEXANDER KURE, Why Literature Cannot MONIKA POPOW, Radical Feminism and Goes Shopping BRANNY-JANKOWSKA, The Use of Revolutionary Believe in Society Too Much The Emancipation of Cre- Science Fiction American and Polish Aesthetics in Ngugi wa atives. Literature in Time Discussion Cybertext Writ- Thiong’o and Micere Gathae PAWEŁ WOLSKI, of Cognitive Capitalism Discussion ers on the Society Mugo’s The Trial of Dedan Who Needs Holocaust OKSANA LYKHOZHON, and its Media Kimathi and Bate Besong’s Studies? Writing Structur- Discussion MARTA KORONKIEWICZ, The Concept of Requiem for the Last Kaise ally, Reading Corporeally Does This Poem Europe in Literature. JAGODA CIERNIAK, MACIEJ JAKUBOWIAK, Work for You? Writing Europe – Piotr Siwecki: Avant- Discussion Discussion New Polish Litera- Making the Union? -garde Activity as a Form ture Under the Law PIOTR SOBOLCZYK, of Resistance against VIKTORIA GRIVINA, TOMASZ KITLIŃSKI, The Anxiety of STANLEY BILL, the Publishing Market “A Nice Virus”: Predicting Society’s Hospitality to the GÖKHAN MÜLAYIM, (Social) Influence Uses of Theory: Counterculture Fiction via Other? Sociologies of Litera- Processes of Marketization “Postcolonialism” 19.45 – 20.00 The Moment Modern World Taboos ture in Poland and Beyond of Kurdish Books in Turkey 12.45 – 13.45 Lunch break and the Polish Right of Conclusion 2 Program 3 Program normative collective identity that Polish culture mass-media. Thus the very reception of a literary Keynote speakers has developed in the 80s. This game went on text becomes a participation in a society that till half of the first decade of the twenty-first communicates differently, and that plays a dif- century, that is, until it challenged the legitimacy ferent game of existing. of normative identity, moving from now on in a continuous discursive struggle to determine PRZEMYSŁAW CZAPLIŃSKI is a literary Jennifer Ashton its expression, while the second offers the fan- the validity of all identity. critic and professor of contemporary literature Labor and the Lyric: tasy of self-expression in the absence of a self. Under the conditions of anomie, when no at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. He The Politics of Self- In short, we find ourselves with a poetics that one can gain a monopoly on defining the col- is a jury member of many important literary -Expression in Contem- mirrors the fantasy of unregulated markets – lective identity, and means of communication awards, and one of the most important Polish porary American Poetry in which what it means to express something is become the game tool. This movement was researchers in the field of literary sociology. to mean nothing at all. Meaning nothing at all, launched in 1976, at the time of the creation of He is the author of Ślady przełomu. O prozie Although it would be something of an exaggera- meanwhile, is now what passes for a politics. the so-called independent circuit, strengthened polskiej 1976–1996 (1997), Efekt bierności. tion to claim that lyric is liberalism’s poetic form, and transformed into a dynamic pattern in the Literatura w czasie normalnym (2004), Polska it’s no exaggeration at all to say that attacking JENNIFER ASHTON is a professor of mid-80s – with the formation of a third circuit. do wymiany. Późna nowoczesność i nasze and defending lyric has been poetry’s neolib- American literature at the University of Illinois In this circuit (represented mainly by fanzines wielkie narracje (2009), and Resztki nowocze- eral form, particularly in the U.S. In our period, at Chicago. Her main fields of interest are and small publications) for the first time on sności (2011). lyric as a privileged form of self-expression 20th- and 21st-century American poetry and a large scale has been used domestic production has become virtually synonymous with poetry literary theory. She has published articles on means to produce the means of communica- itself. And reinventing poetry has been, since modern and contemporary American poetry, tion – one-time newspapers, magazines, paper- Grzgorz Jankowicz the 1970s, the project of either repudiating or with a particular interest in the history of backs books, pirate radio stations. At the turn Dubravka Ugrešić’s resurrecting the lyric, such that its repudiation the lyric and the theoretical, aesthetic, and of the twentieth and twenty-first century , this Socio-politcal View has meant the refusal of self-expression, and political commitments that have sometimes process is carried out both in the mass variant upon Literature its resurrection, when it hasn’t been simply attached to it. These concerns were in part (newspapers, publishing houses), environmen- a matter of embracing self-expression, has often the subject matter of her first book, From Mod- tal variant (fandoms, fan fiction movement) In her essay “Karaoke Culture” Dubravka meant its refusal as well. Another way to say this ernism to Postmodernism: American Poetry and and individual one ( so called self-publishing), Ugrešić examines various modes of cultural would be to say that the poetic practice that has Theory in the Twentieth Century (2006). enriched further with the creation of autono- participation that resemble the karaoke perfor- coincided with the fortunes (and misfortunes) of mous agents of consecration (awards). These mance. In Japanese ‘karaoke’ means “hollow liberalism has largely revolved around the for- facts confirm that means of communication orchestra” and this meaning works as a foun- tunes (and misfortunes) of the self. Or to put this Przemysław Czapliński become the condition of communicative auton- dation for Ugrešić’s critical insights. The new only slightly differently: the history of the lyric Games in literature. omy – it is not a user who has the autonomy, but technologies and media allow any individual to since the 1970s is the history of the advent and The rules and rates a person who determines the terms of use. remain anonymous and to transcend some of adventures of human capital in poetry. of contemporary The combination of the two games leads the cultural and social barriers while performing “Labor and the Lyric” takes as its subject literary life in Poland up to launch the third game – play of society. a song or some other forms of art. These modes two very recent installations in this history of Participants in the game have the tools of of participation are liberating only to a certain what we might call “post-human capital”: the I recognize – not the first, nor only in the wake (relative and propagated) autonomy through extent since the ‘karaoke’ performer functions post-“post-racial” imaginary that has anchored of Bourdieu – that literature is a game. It differs independence to determine its own identity within given framework and codes (genres, identity-driven poetry in the U.S. since Barack from other games, because it can absorb the and with the ability to manufacture the media. media, technical tools). According to Ugrešić Obama’s first presidential election in 2008, and social phenomena of communication, trans- The new game, which is revealed to them, is there is a substantial difference between dem- the “post-human” imaginary that has anchored forming them into its own game rules. Over that the collective identity proposed by a liter- ocratic idea that everyone can act freely if they poetic responses to climatological and finan- the last quarter-century Polish literature played ary work and the game of media proposed by want to and democratic practice according to cial crisis in the U.S.