Ciemnoekologiczna niebinarność na przykładach z poezji Łukasza Kaźmierczaka / Łucji Kuttig

Abstract

My paper examines how the queer theme, particularly the issue of nonbinarity, is realized in Timothy Morton’s concept of dark ecology. The project of dark ecology assumes a mutual enmeshing of human and nonhuman beings, creating space for non-heteronormativity and non-cisgender, among other things. Dark ecology combines reflection that is feminist (e.g., by referring to the legacy of ecofeminists) and queer. It broadly describes the problems associated with binarism (not only gender binarism, but also that concerning the nature-culture dualisms that are foundational to Western reflection) and seeks an alternative in the aforementioned network of connections between all beings, which – as in Stacy Alaimo’s concept of transcorporeality or Donna Haraway’s sympoiesis – are interdependent. Dark ecology also proposes a practice of solidarity, which consists in accepting the common entanglement of all elements of the world in a catastrophe (which the author calls explicitly global warming) that is revolutionizing reality as we know it. The editors of <i>Disorientation. An Anthology of Polish Queer Literature</i> refer to Łukasz Kaźmierczak/Łucja Kuttig’s poems as non-binary poetry. In the author’s work, gender is fluid and, like other words, is subject to inflectional manipulation. The author touches on gender motifs directly and juxtaposes them with the problem of dichotomousness. In their texts, I am also interested in the issues of corporeality and the relationship of man with the environment (i.e., Morton’s mesh). Keywords: dark ecology, gender, queer studies, nonbinarity