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manipulationusedonsectmembers.Followingthestepsofpreviousbooks,
thisbookwasalsodramatizedfortheStaryTheatreandforPolishRadio
Theatre.
Theabove-mentionedprojects(excludingGóraGóry,whichisthemost
low-keyofthethree)usetheirtopicsasapretexttomakeinquiriesintothe
awarenessoflargergroupsofpeopleatagivenhistoricalmoment.Theydo
notlimitthemselvestosimplydeliveringfactsbut-withtheuseofartistic
meansandelementsofotherjournalisticgenres,suchasessayorinterview-
theyputthosefactsthroughaprocessoffar-reachingandmultidimensional
interpretation.Theseprojectsarealsoapreludeformonumentalendeavours
thatperhapsbestexpressthecharacteroftheLR:EuropawedługAuschwitz.
KronikaReportaż(EuropeAccordingtoAuschwitz.Chronicle-Reportage)and
DziejeBazarużyckiego(HistoryoftheżyckiBazaar).
ThegeneralformulaofLRactivitiescanbesummedupasfollows:the
categoryofde-accelerationasaprogrammaticidealofreportagejournalism.
Andso,throughthisprogrammaticde-acceleration,anti-urgencyistheoeuvre
andthegoaloftheLR,itsanswertothequalitiesofthecontemporary
Sattelzeit.Butthiscategoryremainsrelatedtothetypicallymodernnotionof
awaitingabetterworldthatwillnotcomewithoutabetter,morecritical
journalism,seenasanactivityofdescribingtheworldinlinewiththefacts
presentedinabroadernarrativecontext,ina“horizonofmeaning”(touse
anotherfortuitousformulacoinedbyKoselleck).ThefruitoftheLR’swork
belongstojournalismthatisfree,thoughtful,sensitivetotheprocessual
originofdescribedevents,theirhistorical,political,socialandcultural
contextualization.Groupworkinjournalism-thepluralityofvoices-assumes
anidealofintersubjectivejournalismthatboldlymanufactureslongbooks
resistingthedominanttendency:realnarrationsinthepost-narrativeworld
describedbyLyotard,asopposedtothechronicbrevityofnetocracy.
MarekMillersummarizedtheEuropawedługAuschwitzprojectasfollows
(andthesequotes,aftersomethematicchanges,canbeeasilyusedtodescribe
theDziejeBazarużyckiegoproject,asbothfocusondescribingdecisiveevents
-visiblesymptomsofgroundbreakingchanges,socialandanthropological
mutation:
EuropawedługAuschwitzisachronicle-reportagebasedonaccountsandtestimonies
ofpeoplewhoparticipatedintheeventsdirectly.Wewanttoreconstructtherealityof
thecamp,composedofscenesandwordsthatwereutteredbackthen.Wewanttodo
itusingtheoralhistorymethod.Weuseaspecificvariationoforalhistorythatwe
callpolyphonicoralhistory.Itisbasedoneditingtogetherthousandsofaccountsand
statementswithoutanyadditionalcommentaryornarration.Thespecificnarrative
structureanddramaturgyweusemakeitpossibletoachievetheeffectofanepictale