About event:
Czesław Miłosz’s The Captive Mind is more than a historical critique of totalitarianism—it is a timeless exploration of how intellect can be seduced, manipulated, and enslaved. Today, as cultural wars rage across borders, its insights feel disturbingly current.
This lecture invites you to explore the modern mechanisms of mental captivity.
● What does the ideology of the "russkiy mir" reveal about the uses of culture as a weapon? ● What kinds of compromises—conscious or unconscious—do contemporary intellectuals make under political pressure? ● What are today’s equivalents of ketman, and how are propaganda “pills” disguised and distributed in an age of information overload?
This event will resonate with anyone who wants to understand how minds are captured—not only by regimes, but by the culture we consume.
Speaker:
Krzystof Czyżewski – practitioner of ideas, writer, philosopher, culture animator, theatre director, editor. Co-founder and president of the Borderland Foundation and director of the Centre “Borderland of Arts, Cultures and Nations” in Sejny.
Language:
English