The article uses the example of Kevin Warwick’s robot with the living brain (Robot Gordon) to review the phenomenon of brain organoids creation, one of the applications of which is to replace animals in neurological experiments. However, in this context the question whether it is possible to compare brain and non-cerebral organoids (organ-on-chip) arises. The […]
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Animals and Their Attitude to Death – Paweł Pasieka
Until recently, received wisdom held that it is a uniquely human privilege not only to be able to encounter reality with the aid of reason and language, but also to live with the awareness of one’s own mortality. The distinction accorded death and the experience of dying for humans results from the fact that human […]
An animal cemetery in Pan Tadeusz Mickiewicz’s zootanatology in the light of indigenous knowledge – Anna Filipowicz
The article is an attempt to non-anthropological read the fragment of Pan Tadeusz about an animal cementery. In the light of indigenous knowledge, Mickiewicz’s “matecznik” seems to be a relic of the animistic imagination, in which human and non-human persons have similar ontological status. Basing on the folk tradition rooted in the direct experience, the […]
Animals for Sacrifice (on Ivan Shmelev’s Novel The Sun of the Dead) – Alfia Smirnova
The article analyzes the most tragic work of Ivan Shmelev about time at the end of the Civil War in Russia, about the “epic” The Sun of the Dead. The tragedy of the story that is in its title gradually grows and intensifies in accordance with the dynamics of the plot action, realized in the […]
Death of a Fly On The Hunger Artist Departs by Tadeusz Różewicz – Jakub Orzeszek
Western imagination describes a fly as an abject. It causes disgust and, as such, belongs to the “other world” of condamned and unwanted beings that define the end of humanity. This is the concept, which Tadeusz Rozewicz seems to undermine in The Hunger Artist Departs (1976). In Scene Four the main character of the play […]