Open Access„Fuck the context!”. Krytyczny dyskurs regionalny w kontekście badań foresight
Author(s) -
Waldemar Kuligowski
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
kultura i społeczeństwo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2300-195X
pISSN - 0023-5172
DOI - 10.35757/kis.2016.60.2.1
Subject(s) - futures studies , sociology , context (archaeology) , power (physics) , cognitive dissonance , critical discourse analysis , epistemology , politics , political science , history , law , philosophy , social psychology , psychology , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , computer science , ideology
This article is an attempt at a critical and interdisciplinary analysis of the idea of the region. The author reviews and summarizes critical views of the idea in the discourses of architecture (Frampton, Koolhaas, Ibelings), art history (DaCosta, Kauffman, Piotrowski), and social anthropology (Gupta, Ferguson, Malkki, Bhabha). He then focuses on the example of the contemporary discourse on power, in which the concept of ‘region’ still functions in the form of implicit premises about the naturalness of differences and territorial and cultural divisions. The example is analyzed through the findings of the research project ‘Regional Foresight for Wielkopolska’ (2009–2011). The author’s conclusion points to the great dissonance between the discourse of modern humanities and the applied discourse of contemporary policy (including regional policy).