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• Experience marketing in the service of the “secular religion” of big tech

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  • J. Kreft
  • M. Boguszewicz-kreft

  - Year 2021

  The article proposes an interpretation of the meaning of experience marketing as a tool in the process of sacralisation of products, and in a broader context – the so-called secular religion accompanying some contemporary big tech organizations. The article is of theoretical nature and the authors have intended to explain how big tech corporations, in line with the concept of experience marketing (digital platforms, in particular),...

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• Technological and Media Platforms: Redefinition of Meanings as Symbolic Power over the Discourse

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  • J. Kreft

  - Year 2020

  Redefining the meanings of such social terms as “likes” and “friends” on Facebook is a popular practice. In terms of consistency, the (auto)-redefinition of the term “platform” is itself particularly important from a media management perspective. The article proposes to consider the redefinition of meanings as a form of wielding non-transparent power over discourse. From this perspective, redefining a meaning is a form of holding...

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• Zwierzę, które spać nie może. Bezsenność w antropologii filozoficznej Emila Ciorana

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  • K. Rajkowski

  - Ruch Literacki - Year 2023

  This article examines the role of insomnia in Emil Cioran’s philosophy. Taken as a whole, his work appears to be exceptionally significant both from the point of view of anthropology and illness narrative studies. There has never been any doubt that his life and work are dominated by a sense of ennui, loneliness and estrangement. Yet these themes are merely symptoms of more fundamental problems he grappled with, i.e. the grotesque...

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