Autobiografia Literatura Kultura Media


ISSN: 2353-8694     eISSN: 2719-4361    OAI    DOI: 10.18276/au.2023.2.21-03
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Oczy trylobitów wciąż patrzą. Przyczynek do autobiografii kopalnej
(The trilobite’s eyes are still watching. Contribution to a fossil autobiography)

Authors: TOMASZ KALIŚCIAK ORCID
Uniwersytet Śląski
Keywords: trilobite fossils paleontology animal autobiographies fossil autobiographies
Data publikacji całości:2023
Page range:23 (39-61)
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Abstract

The article addresses the issue of the existence of fossil autobiographies that go beyond the framework of the anthropocentric understanding of writing, treated here as their ichnofossils or traces of the life activity of fossil organisms. Therefore, the author raises the question of the existence of animal writing based on the philosophical concept of a trace (Derrida) on the one hand and the idea of a fossil record in the field of palaeontology on the other. As a result of the above considerations, the author, introducing the concept of “interspecies co-authorship” after D. Herman, focuses on the fossil autobiography of trilobites, marine arthropods finally became extinct during the Permian extinction, presenting both the history of their discovery and the literary representations of the Victorian era, whose common point become the eyes of trilobites. The fact of having eyes makes trilobites ancestral witnesses of the evolution of life on Earth and allows them to include in the optics of human experience. In this sense, the trilobites become co-authors of literary fossil autobiographies alongside the figure of the author of the text.
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