Celem artykułu jest interpretacja radiowej audycji autorskiej w antropologicznych kategoriach rytuału. Zakładam, że audycja radiowa, zwłaszcza prowadzona przez charyzmatycznego i obdarzonego autorytetem dziennikarza, jest swoistym rytuałem medialnym. Jego struktura i przebieg noszą znamiona działania rytualnego, determinowanego przez specyfikę medium, w jakim do rytuału dochodzi. Działanie rytualne przebiega w kontekście mediów masowych i charakteryzuje się wielokodowością i wielością parametrów, co wynika z faktu, że w procesie komunikacji tworzone są kontekstowe znaczenia na linii radiowi dziennikarze–słuchacze. Kategoria rytuału medialnego zostanie w tekście zilustrowana przykładami z audycji autorskich prowadzonych w Programie Trzecim Polskiego Radia przez Piotra Kaczkowskiego i Marka Niedźwieckiego w latach 80. XX wieku.

From the ancestral rite to the modern rite. Around Leopardo al Sol by Laura Restrepo

This article proposes an analysis of Laura Restrepo’s Leopardo al sol (1993), a novel that proposes a sociocultural interpretation of the impact of the illegal economies of drug trafficking on traditional society. By analyzing the ingredients of the convention and poetics narco in the text, we observe how the violence represented in Leopardo al sol takes the form of a particular syncretism of modern elements of a civilization of spectacle and archaic elements intrinsic to mentalities anchored in mythical and magical thinking.

Creating a state’s symbolic space is one of the most important competencies of the authorities. It manifests itself in, inter alia, establishing topographies of memory (organizing sites of memory), erecting monuments, appropriate naming of streets, squares, public institutions and organization of the calendar of holidays. Holidays and celebrations are a great tool for communication between the authorities and the citizens, and one of the basic elements of the historical politics system of a state. The aim of the present study is to show – on the case study of the Polish calendar of public holidays in the 20th and 21st centuries – the mechanisms and tools used by the government to build a proper historical narrative.

Symbols of suffering and mourning rituals in contemporary political space

The death of a loved one results in manifestations of suffering, mourning, and finally post-mortem and funeral ceremonies. The departure of people who were key figures and influenced the political space brings with it a whole spectrum of symbols, signs and rituals of mourning in this space. In the history of the Third Polish Republic, Poles experienced a number of sad moments related to the deaths of less and more significant figures in the world of politics. The departure of John Paul II, all those who died in the Smolensk catastrophe, the assassination of President Paweł Adamowicz, the deaths of the founding fathers of the Third Republic: Tadeusz Mazowiecki and Jacek Kuroń, Władysław Bartoszewski, Andrzej Chodubski, who was so close to the University of Gdańsk environment, and many others, are just some of the great world of politics and political science. The symbols of suffering and rituals of mourning that accompanied their farewells were, among other things, an expression of our culture, also political.