Published: 2018-06-29

Park in the Age of Digital Images. Late Modernity Practices: to exist – to naturalize – to live

Karina Banaszkiewicz

Abstract

Park as an intentionally formed phenomenon is an example of imposing on reality both anthropocentric patterns and those typical of a specific cultural context. Interpreted against the backdrop of space, nature, landscape, it unravels its power as a human gesture, sign and measure of human nature – expresses a man’s attitude to the world. Founded on the topographical experience, a park gains the status of a place and initiates the processes of taming and naturalization. Everyday being with a park leads to living, which then endows a park with an order of life and identity. To be, to naturalize, to live – these are the practices of existence in the world, deconstructed by the processes of globalisation, including digitalization. While analysing digital realizations
of a park and a park extended over the spaces emitted by the screens and monitors of digital devices in terms of the functions it performs in a modern and postmodern city, this paper asks about contemporary forms of settlement, embodied by virtual and real parks.

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Banaszkiewicz, K. (2018). Park in the Age of Digital Images. Late Modernity Practices: to exist – to naturalize – to live. Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne [Silesian Journal of Polish Studies], 11(1), 21–38. Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/SSP/article/view/8645

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2018)
Published: 2018-06-29


ISSN: 2084-0772
eISSN: 2353-0928

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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