Published: 2021-07-12

Unblocking the Alternative Future: Tomasz Bąk’s Performative Poetry

Michał Trusewicz Logo ORCID

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.

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Trusewicz, M. (2021). Unblocking the Alternative Future: Tomasz Bąk’s Performative Poetry. Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne [Silesian Journal of Polish Studies], 18(2), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.31261/SSP.2021.18.12

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Vol. 18 No. 2 (2021)
Published: 2021-11-10


ISSN: 2084-0772
eISSN: 2353-0928

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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