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2021, No. (14), Ethnoarchaeology

Michał Rydlewski
Posthumanism and magical thinking: in search of the material-body intersubjectivity (part II)

Keywords: Bruno Latour, magic, posthumanism, social constructivism

Abstract:
The article is a reflection on the views of Tim Ingold and Bjornar Olsen. The author puts forward the thesis that both researchers revive and revitalize magical thinking as characteristic of pre-modern societies. Such an approach deserves criticism as it eliminates a distanced attitude in which one can learn about and reflect on culture as understood by the Poznań school of cultural studies, with which the author sympathizes. Ingold and Olsen, as representatives of posthumanism, seek a new intersubjectivity, which is no longer determined by the attitude to things, but by things themselves as material objects and the body. The article is the second part of the reflection on this aspect of posthumanism.

About Author:
MICHAŁ RYDLEWSKI – ethnologist, philosopher, literary scholar; assistant professor at the Institute of Journalism and Social Communication, University of Wrocław. E-mail: rydles@autograf.pl. ORCID 0000-0001-7055-1252.

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