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Introduction
SławomirKonkol,“WhatElseisCivilisationFor?NarrationOvercoming
FearandTraumainGrahamSwift.”
Fragmentedandrepetitive,thestructureofmostofGrahamSwift’snarratives
representsthecharacters’senseofbeingseparatedfromtheworldandtrapped
intraumatictemporalitywhichrefuseslineardevelopment.Whilemourning
theimpossibilityofretrievingoriginalwholeness,Swift’snovelscelebratethe
contingencyofthehumanconditionsincetheprotagonists’efortsatovercom-
ingfearcanonlybetemporaryandtentative.Atthesametime,thestatus
ofthenarrativeisquestionedasmorallyambiguous,potentiallyviolentand
responsiblefortheirreversibleinvolvementofthesubjectintemporality.
AnnaKrawczyk-Łaskarzewska,“‘SeekandYeShallMind’–Conspiracy
TheoriesandtheMechanismsofOnlineExposure.”
Fuelledbyfearsrelatedtoterrorism,surveillance,andsignsofcollapseofthe
globalfinancialsystem,theconspiracistand/orsynchrony-seekingwebpages
haveshownremarkablysimilar,suspicious/hostileattitudestowardsavariety
ofissues,e.g.globalwarmingresearch,government-imposedvaccinationpro-
grams,allegeddiabolicalpactsmadebyglobalelitesconcerningmindandpop-
ulationcontrol,theinfluenceoftheIlluminatiandallthingsoccult,etc.But
thefearofenslavementandsubordinationtheysooftenexpressprovestobe
adouble-edgedweaponmanipulatingthereaders’soundjudgmentevenfurther.
SławomirKuźnicki,“CivilisationRenewalProject–theUltimateSolution
ofMargaretAtwood’sOryxandCrake.”
Byfocusingonbiotechnologyandthecommercialisationoflife,Margaret
Atwood,inherdystopiaOryxandCrake(2003),questionsthemoralityof
geneticengineeringprocedures.Asaresult,sheproposesarevolutionaryshift,
anapocalypse,afterwhichtheoldorderceasestoexistandisapparentlysuc-
ceededbyaheavenonearth.ThisarticleisconcernedwithAtwood’sreasons
forannihilatingourpresentcivilisation,butitalsopointsoutwhythenew
versionoftheworld,althoughpreconceivedandlogicallymanufactured,has
norealchancesofsucceeding.
TadeuszLewandowski,“IndulgingaTerrorist’sFears:ACriticalEvaluation
ofTheodoreKaczynski’sIndustrialSocietyandItsFuture.”
Inmid-Septemberof1995theNewYorkTimesandWashingtonPostpublished
TheodoreKaczynski’sIndustrialSocietyandItsFuture,a35,000-wordessay
thatdecriedtheefectsoftechnologyonmankindandthenaturalworld.
Whenmadepublic,themanifestogarneredasurprisinglypositivereception
intheAmericanmedia.ThoughIndustrialSocietyandItsFuturecertainly
expressessomerationalfears,thisessayarguesthatitsimportanceasanideo-
logicaltracthasbeenoverestimatedbyreadersdrawntoKaczynski’sbizarre
