Abstrakt:
The aim of the text is to sketch the dynamics of contemporary culture, focussing on
the concept of participation. General remarks are accompanied by illustrations taken
from ethnographic study on musie lovers faced with evolution of musical media (vinyl
records, CDs, files). Following Marek Krajewski, the author rejects the traditional notion
of "participation", and uses his redefinition of the term. He stresses three dimensions
of cultural participation: 1. participation as socialization; 2. participation as reshaping
the participants themselves, which makes materiał traces; 3. participation as meta-
-participation, ie. the modifying of the conditions of participation. At the same time,
three crucial dimensions of the notion of "culture" are taken into consideration, which
enables us to analyze the participation understood in the proposed way from a triple
perspective: 1. participation takes place within culture, culture enables participation to
oceur; 2. culture is a resource used in the process of participation; 3. culture as "something beyond interaction" emerges in the course of participation. The author argues that thinking of participation in this way, the contemporary culture is to be viewed as a clash between many heterogeneous forces, where constructing and maintaining stable areas is the exception rather than a rule. This is why it is so important to study of how the orders of participation are stabilized. Various forms of institutionalized reflexivity
are ubiąuitous in contemporary culture. Our culture is tyrannized by information, and
the acceleration connected to it.
