TY - JOUR N2 - This article asks the question to what extent Ryszard Nycz’s ambitious project of cultural practice outlined in his book Culture as Verb succeeds in opening up ‘a new form of knowledge’ and thus equipping the humanities with a fresh validity. Nycz takes up the poststructuralist concept of the humanities as a site of alternative or subversive knowledge, founded on the principles of interpretation and textual dispersion, and refocuses it on involvement (participation) and binary oppositions (borders), i.e. human vs. nonhuman, or nature vs. culture as a construct. The article, rather than addressing the issues of involvement and borders (liminality), concentrates instead on the contradictions that Nycz’ s theory gives rise to when applied to history, time and the emergence of subjectivity (identity). There is nothing objectionable about the proposition that temporal change is at the very core of culture, yet its locus must be sought not in the proclamations of individual agents, but in the conceptual ruptures that expose and reveal the boundaries of (collective) consciousness and unconsciousness, i.e. the operation of contingency. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/113549/PDF/RL%204-19%204-Momro.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/113549 PY - 2019 IS - No 4 (355) EP - 440 DO - 10.24425/rl.2019.130056 KW - cultural theory and practice KW - the humanities KW - knowledge KW - validity KW - poststructuralism KW - rupture KW - borders KW - contingency KW - Ryszard Nycz’s "Culture as Verb" A1 - Momro, Jakub PB - Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział w Krakowie Komisja Historycznoliteracka PB - Uniwersytet Jagielloński Wydział Polonistyki DA - 2020.01.13 T1 - Non-narcissistic knowledge: Ryszard Nycz’s “Culture as Verb” SP - 429 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/113549 T2 - Ruch Literacki ER -