- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
Anthropology of Communism 3620-1-AK-OG
Issues of the seminar:
o Utopia and culture. Constitutive features of utopia and of the utopia consciousness.
o Stages of Soviet utopism and models of the Soviet culture (the revolutionary "culture one" and the totalitarian "culture two" according to Vladimir Paperny's typology).
o Models of official culture in Poland and in other countries of "imposed" communism.
o Semiotic "transmission belts" of communist ideology in the socialist block countries' cultures.
o National in form, socialist in meaning - use of folklore in propaganda.
o Ontology and anthropology of the Soviet man (1) - "The new man": anthropological utopia of the Soviet "culture one".
o Ontology and anthropology of the Soviet man (2) - "The real man": anthropological utopia of the Soviet "culture two".
o Ontology and anthropology of the Soviet man (3) - Anthropological utopia and the Soviet model of the world: the imperative of conquering space (from the committed science-fiction of the twenties to the ideological and journalistic setting of Gagarin's space flight).
o Architecture towards utopia, architecture towards the authorities (1) - architectural searches in the post-revolutionary period; constructivism.
o Architecture towards utopia, architecture towards the authorities (2) - socialist realism in architecture; the socialist architecture canon.
o Architecture towards utopia, architecture towards the authorities (3) - architecture and the imperative of conquering space: the Soviet "neoballoonism" (real high buildings and the so-called "paper architecture").
o Architecture towards utopia, architecture towards the authorities (4) - from the "house-commune" to the "komunalka": stages of Soviet dwelling ideology and the housing construction architecture. Social reality and the social consequences of the different dwelling models.
o Architecture towards utopia, architecture towards the authorities (5) - what is left of those years? Further existence of socialist realist and post-socialist realistic architecture - from demolishing to accustoming.
o The phenomenon of the Yosif Stalin Palace of Culture and Science.
o Anthropology of mass song of "culture one" and "culture two".
o Anthropology of visual propaganda (1). The Soviet political poster: the avant-garde, socialist realist and "decadent" one.
o Anthropology of visual propaganda (2). Communist emblems (postal and other stamps, postcards)
o Anthropology of visual propaganda (3). Socialist realist and post-socialist realist sculpture. Subsequent monuments demolishion.
o Cosmogony of the Soviet state in the official culture texts (basing on Soviet Stalin era filmmaking, mass song and political manifestos of leaders): the founding myth: year 1917 and the Revolution, the compensation myth: 1941-1945 and the Great Patriotic War)
o Cosmogony of the Soviet state in the official culture texts (basing on Soviet Stalin era filmmaking, mass song and political manifestos of leaders): the founding myth: year 1917 and the Revolution, the compensation myth: 1941-1945 and the Great Patriotic War) - continuation
o Mythologization of power succession: 1925 and the death of Lenin; 1953/56: the death of Stalin and the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
o Creation of the cosmogony of the satellite states in relation with the Soviet model.
o Sacral aspects of social and political life in the Soviet Union. Mechanisms of power sacralization.
o Saint rulers and cultural heros of communism - Soviet models
o Saint rulers and cultural heros of communism - implementations in the communist block countries
o Saint books
o Forbidden books, forbidden knowledge
o Holiday, fest, mass events - life ritualization, forms of collective experiencing of the sacrum and of spending free time.
o Nostalgia for communism and its different faces.
Type of course
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- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
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